From Social Security to Food Benefits, It’s Welfare Gone Wild
My father was a veteran and a successful businessman for his entire life. He paid the maximum benefit to ss his entire life. He died the night before he was to retire. My mother was able to have a portion of his benefits as he set everything up so that if he died she would be taken care of.
I do not call that welfare when someone pays in to something for their entire life and then finally gets to draw it out. Also because other pensions were set up with the same type of benefits my mother also had other income as well. She continued to pay taxes on money from her pensions until her death.
I think a good choice for funding government programs would be to have our government do only the things it can do that private entities can not do. Example would be security of our national boundaries, defense of our country etc.
We have welfare now that allows a co-workers cousin and her two illegitimate children to make more money than either of us and to enjoy free health care as well. My wife and I have both worked to provide for our three children our entire lives.
One way to begin ending this is to stop new benefits in one year. Next step we continue to cut the number of existing recipients every year by 5% until they are all eliminated from the system and the system is eliminated entirely. In 20 to 25 years we could eliminate the department of welfare and the big drain on our economy. We would also be able to carry the truly unfortunate for a while till they get on their feet and off their ass.
As far as corporate welfare and bailouts go I will not buy a car that is made by an aflcio worker again if I can help it. If it means I will buy imports so be it.
