Mind-Game Victim? This $63 Million Welfare Program Can Help!
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington has never seen a government stocking-stuffer she couldn’t learn to like. So when spiraling costs galvanized Congress to take on welfare reform in 1996, the unflappable Mom in Tennis Shoes knew she would have to act fast to take the sharp edges off of “the end of welfare as we know it.”
Joining forces with former Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, Murray argued that domestic violence victims were so traumatized by the experience that it would be impossible for them to find work within the two-year limit imposed by the incoming Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program.
So Murray cleverly devised a loophole called the “Family Violence Option.” Under the FVO, welfare recipients would be screened for partner abuse and referred for counseling. These persons would then be exempted from the 24-month time limit.
What compassionate conservative could argue against that?
But like many progressive programs, the devil was lurking in the details. And how did the law define “family violence”? The Social Security Act defines family violence as “physical acts that resulted in, or threatened to result in, physical injury to the individual.”
But keep reading, because it turns out the drafters of the law tucked in two seemingly harmless words near the end of the definition: “mental abuse.” Exactly what does that mean?
AAAACCCKK! Someone save us from the government!
Don’t forget the catbird seated public sector union jobs who suck on the gov. teat too. These supposed ‘men’ hardly work and make out like bandits and then sleep on the job or perform ‘unofficial’ strikes by not showing up to shovel snow (for instance).
The whole welfare system has many ‘includes’ and that means public sector gravy-train jobs and bennies too.
I think Sen. Patty Murray of Washington should be charged with mental abuse. Democrats have been abusing us with this nonsense for years and we, the people, have been the victims of it. So, where’s my check?
you aren’t a democrat you cannot qualify for social programs.
Hey let’s all go to the lowest common denominator…..(actually had to tell a leftist “friend” what that meant…)
Sadly, cold hard reality will slap them mightily in their faces. The money is running out. They won’t/can’t see it coming because they think there is an endless supply of evil rich people. (I never worked for a poor person). If that won’t work, we can just print the money, or get it from the potus stash….critical thinking is not allowed. But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where this will lead…
Unfortunately, they are forcing EVERYONE of us to get on this Hades bound train. I can just hear them now….”I didn’t think that….”, to which my father would always interrupt…..”that was your first problem, YOU DIDN’T THINK!”
I, as a Washingtonian, am again embarrassed that voters returned Pattycakes to the U.S. Senate this past November. Murray is a socialist halfwit of the likes of Barbara Boxer. She loads spending bills with useless earmarks, ranking #2 in pork spending in the Senate this past year. Her handlers have taught her to to trade bacon and ham for urban votes. Pure Pork Patty receives an ever-increasing amount of the cash in her vast campaign war chest from out of state zip codes, and is all but owned by certain PAC’s, such as Emily List, which represents the abortion industry. I am convinced that Washington and the rest of the nation are stuck with Patty, at least until Bolshevik Seattle is leveled by the “Big One”, the 9.0 earthquake geologists have been promising for decades. Perhaps if we all simultaneously stomped our feet real hard…..
Shoot….perhaps the folks who put this marvel together should offer their services to the fools who continue to natter about the abuses of our immigration policies.
Saltherring’s suggestion that “we all simultaneously stomped our feet real hard…” to pull off an earthquake for Seattle reminded me of the worries of some fool Congressman who worries about Guam tipping over if all the people go to one side or something.
You better watch out, Saltherring. If some of the global warming geniuses hear about your threat, you may go on some Domestic Terrorist list and you will never be able to fly in an aluminum can again because of your threats against Seattle (which probably constant mental abuse, so they can probably all go on the plan now….ain’t it wonderful how Policies and Procedures under the leftists always have their moment in the sun.
Senator Murray, bless her pathetic, but devious, little progressive heart, was re-elected this past November; showcasing, once again, the ignorance of too many Washington State voters, the efficacy of a dishonest state Democrat central committee, self-serving public sector unions, and the dead people of King County (Seattle). The country is in the best of hands. Gag…..!
hard core feminists have always been the backbone of the progressives. they found out about earmarks, and well the rest is history, along with our $$$. the venerable violence against women act (v.a.w.a.) is their main cash cow. tens of billions spent down a rabbit hole, and no congress critter dare question where the $$$ really goes. every year earmarks to that nightmare handout (that no one dare vote against) can get added as late as the night before signing, always bear a similar sounding ‘nice p.c.’ name, and always expand the progressive war chest, with no oversight. who could possibably be against stopping violence against women? they are a sneaky bunch and will stop at nothing to get our $$.
the next congress must stop this earmark stuff. it may not be but a small portion (% wise) of the total spending debt; but, it is a LOT of $$$ spent on progressive maintenance programs. a few billion dollars here and there will hire a lot of progressive/feminist lawyers, judges and demorat congresscritters. we must cut off the $$$. that is the key to taking back our country. saying no to these traitors on spending is a Patriotic act, long to be remembered and felt by those who follow us.
Democrats
How Privileged Democrats Pay for Their Houses
by Michelle Malkin / 09/24/2010
Like millions of Americans, Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell has had trouble covering her mortgage and other bills over the years. Her opponents consider this a scandal of disqualifying proportions. But there’s a bigger disgrace: It’s all the sanctimonious Democrats who have exploited their entrenched political incumbency to pay for multiple manses and vacation homes — while posing as vox populi.
Former senior senator from Delaware and current Vice President Joe Biden has a custom-built house in Delaware’s ritziest Chateau Country neighborhood. It is now worth at least $2.5 million and is the Bidens’ most valuable asset. Biden tapped campaign funds to pay for his compound’s lawn needs. He secured the new estate with the help of a corporate executive who worked for Biden’s top campaign donor, credit card giant MBNA.
In 1996, Biden sold his previous mansion to MBNA Vice Chairman John Cochran. The asking price was $1.2 million. Cochran forked over the full sum. Biden then paid $350,000 in cash to real estate developer Keith Stoltz for a 4.2-acre lakefront lot. Stoltz had paid that same amount five years earlier for the undeveloped property.
Stoltz told the Wilmington News Journal that “the residential real estate market was soft” at the time he sold the land to Biden. But “soft” for whom? Stoltz was a well-off businessman who didn’t appear to be in such dire financial straits that he needed to unload the property quickly in a weak market.
Reporter Byron York looked at comparable properties in Biden’s neighborhood and found three cases where homes in the area went “for a good deal less than their appraised value. In comparison, it appears Cochran simply paid Biden’s full asking price.”
Biden’s office denied any sweetheart deals took place, but York noted that it appeared MBNA indirectly helped Cochran buy the Biden house through six-figure executive compensation funds listed as moving expenses and losses suffered on the sale of his previous home.
To be clear, no laws were broken. These arrangements were simply a continuation of Biden’s decades-long, Beltway business-as-usual relationships with a deep-pocketed corporate benefactor — which, by the way, later hired his son. Nice nepotism, if you can get it.
North Dakota Democrat Sen. Kent Conrad and Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd made cozy arrangements with subprime sleaze lender Countrywide. Portfolio.com reported that Conrad “borrowed $1.07 million in 2004 to refinance his vacation home with a balcony and wraparound porch in Bethany Beach, Del., a block from the ocean.”
Senate Banking Chair Dodd received two discounted loans in 2003 through Countrywide’s VIP program. He borrowed $506,000 to refinance his elite townhouse in Washington, D.C., and $275,042 to refinance a home in East Haddam, Conn. Countrywide helpfully waived fractions of points on the loans. The lower interest rates could have saved Dodd a combined $75,000 during the life of the 30-year loans.
Dodd had known about the preferential treatment on his loans since 2003, yet continued to deny that he was treated like a VIP, refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and encouraged government-sponsored mortgage enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to invest in Countrywide’s risky loans.
Not content with two shady home deals, Dodd got in on a real estate scheme for an Irish cottage and nearly 10 acres of land with William Kessinger, a businessman tied to his close friend, insider trader Edward R. Downe Jr.
Downe had pleaded guilty to tax and securities law violations and was banned for life from the business. In 2001, Dodd helped Downe obtain one of the treasured presidential pardons on Bill Clinton’s last day in office. A year after that, as Irish real estate prices went through the roof, Dodd purchased Kessinger’s share of the estate at a discount. He failed to include the obvious quid-pro-quo gift on Senate disclosure forms: Help a crooked friend, reap a cut-rate real estate deal.
Prominent members of Team Obama benefited from similar special home deals. Politico.com noted that the Clintons secured a $1.35 million loan from Democrat pal and fundraiser Terry McAuliffe for their New York estate; Obama special envoy Richard Holbrooke snagged a sweetheart loan to refinance his Telluride, Colo., ski vacation home from the Countrywide VIP program; and Obama’s close confidante and erstwhile vice presidential search committee panelist Jim Johnson accepted more than $7 million in below-market-rate loans from Countrywide.
Then there’s President Barack Obama’s own $1.7 million Chicago manse — which was financed with a discounted mortgage from Northern Trust and infamously included a shady land swap with convicted felon donor/developer Tony Rezko. A report released by the Federal Election Commission in February 2009 underscored that the Obamas received reduced loan rates (saving $300 a month, or $108,000 over the life of a 30-year loan) because of their high-profile positions.
Northern Trust offered the super jumbo loan to the Obamas in anticipation of entering “long-term financial relationships” with the successful couple. The FEC refused to call the Obamas’ mortgage deal an illegal corporate contribution, but it was an obvious act of favor-trading. Northern Trust employees had contributed $71,000 to Obama since 1990.
GOP candidates like Christine O’Donnell, who have weathered personal financial troubles, have a lot more in common with the 14 million Americans underwater on their mortgages than these privileged Beltway boys. Perhaps fat-cat Democrats in crony-funded houses should put down their stones.
Within every ones comments we see that despite an astonishingly radical first two years in office, which has awakened unprecedented voter outrage and caused Obama’s popularity to plunge, the lame stream media largely continue to ignore the reality of who Obama is, what he really stands for, and who influences him. During this time most of the media’s top publications and personalities refused to read the No. 1 best-selling non-fiction book in America, Aaron Klein’s “Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists” a blistering, thoroughly documented account of Barack Obama’s extremist connections, because they “found” the subject matter “offensive”. We now know that the media were our enablers, that our political opposition is funded by us, that Acorn and the welfare-entitlement complex is funded by us, that the Marxists in schools are funded by us. We now know that the MSM not only failed to do their job–asking important questions and informing the populace in a balanced way–they have also lied to us over and over again. We now know that we can’t depend on the MSM for information. We now know that Barry Hussein is a mere symptom of what ails America. We now know that liberalism is not only intellectually incorrect but also an affront to common decency. We now know that liberals simply hate Americans, especially when they won’t go along with such obviously good things such as President Obama’s healthcare law, “economic stimulus” spending, nationalizing student loans, unilaterally disarming American nuclear weapons, or raising taxes in an anemic economy. After watching the Glenn Beck rally and the news aftermath, we now know positively that the lame-stream media will never be objective. The rally stort is a simple one, a story of one man with his own money who collected a lot of money for a worthy charity and brought a large group of people from across the country to one place to listen to white, black, American Indian, Christian,Mormon, Jewish speakers talk about faith, hope, charity, and God. Al Sharpton had a rally on the same day. You know, Commie Fest. So why was Mr. Sharpton’s rally so unsuccesful as Mr. Beck’s? Mr Sharpton thought he had claim to “everything Martin Luther” simply by the color of his (Sharpton’s) skin? Don’t you think Martin Luther would be happy to see a celebration of his life by a gathering of people of all skin colors? Of course he would. MLK is a piece of American History. I am American. I am white, so why can’t I embrace him too? Wasn’t Maritn Luther King all about “character rather than color of skin”? Mr. Sharpton’s has made his existence and notoriety as being dependent on the continuation of racism, so he has a stake in making sure that racism continues to exist, or at least portraying it as such. Glenn Beck made his existence and notoriety as dependent on the issues of our Progressive leaders taking God out of the halls of our Congress. I know that many of us can find faults with Glenn Beck’s agenda . I know he is not a minister or a priest so (like he says) he made some religious mistakes. I welcome that he (like Franklin Graham) had a rally on Washington DC’s footsteps. I am surprised they got the permit considering our Admministration’s attitude towards Christianity (not to mention the world’s attitude). But, what no Christian should like is news like this: Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”–symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there. Ah, there’s the rub. God help us all who perchance to dream that it is still possible for something to come out of nothingness. Nothingness is were our Progressive leaders and Godless representatives have taken us.
By these definitions, the media has engaged in mental abuse against Sarah Palin and most female Republican candidates of the last cycle.
I think it’s arguable that by using the derogatory term “teabaggers” the President himself, along with many media personalities, has engaged in mental abuse against all the elderly and female members of the Tea Party.
Oh, when will our agony end? Who will swoop in to save us? Can we get some compensatory money from the government? I know Obama got it, it in he stash.
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One only needs to drag a reporter by the heels out of the Palin’s trash can, and ask why he never interviewed the only surviving caregiver of BHO, who sustained him since he was still a boy. Why did she not attend his nomination?
Maybe because she was not invited, since she is a “typical white woman” who should not have gotten a hip replacement when she had cancer. Neither should his negro family members be given an handout.
This reminds me of the rules for a foreign national whereby they could be granted asylum if mentally abused in their home country in some arcane way.
This was a story I saw in the press last summer here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/25/opinion/la-ed-asylum-20100725.
Will someone please tell me why the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit thinks this concerns me; they are madmen, or women. This here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/world/americas/16guatemala.html
10 per cent of Guatemalans live here. Thanks morons. Making them feel better by micro-managing a sovereign nation is clownish. It’s none of the court’s business to make me put up with this and none of my affair. Why screw me cuz some Guatemalan hits his wife? Soon we’ll have the entirety of the Third World here where we can better watch over them and their inane and frail minds.
No reason to wonder why our treasure goes in this bewildering fashion to those who are the least productive and deserving.
How is this country not socialist in its outlook? In fact it goes beyond mere national socialism (ugh) to embrace the entire world.