Insightful Thoughts and Comments by Leonard Henderson

Founder of Oregon Family Rights and 
Co-Founder of American Family Rights Association

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2-12-08 

Welfare to Work

My bright idea today was to finally compose the essay I've had running in my head ever since I first applied for disability in 1995.  Social Security employs a legion of people to intake new disability applications.  It seems that their job is to deny every first application citing a vague reference to "other employments in the national economy that Mr. xxxxx could take". 

I inquired that person how he could say THAT- considering all the evidence I had sent. He stuck to his guns, although he admitted that I was pretty messed up and certainly could no longer work at the good-paying trades I had the training to do.  I said "Yanno, you are absolutely right.  I could do YOUR job.  You seem to be a young, healthy body taking a sedentary easy job away from old torn-up, worn out workhorses like me.  Does SSA want to hire me?"  He stammered and mumbled about college degrees .  I said "College degree in what? Debating?"

The truth is, the longer they keep you from entering the program, the greater likelihood that you will DIE waiting. They are absolutely the devil's advocate.

Anyway, that's the genesis that turned into what's coming next.

WELFARE TO WORK

Here's what I remember about it- 

In the late 50's and 60's people were complaining about taxes, government waste, budget deficits and universally blamed it on "them folks on welfare.  "They're PAYING people to stay home and raise kids!"  This was the age of the "Welfare Mother".  The more babies they had, the more money they got- as long as no MAN lived there.  High school girls could look at that as a perfectly logical career choice. You get what you pay for. This was also how the Black male was disenfranchised. Was that merely accidental?

Somewhere in the 70's or 80's the "Welfare to Work" program was launched.  If success is rated by the number of impoverished people taken off the "Welfare Rolls", the program was a raging success.  On the other hand, the Welfare to Work program vastly increased the numbers of the disenfranchised who are not participating in the American economy and living in the "third world country" that are America's urban deserts.

Now for some research for what the facts really are. Off Googling I go

Wikipedia says-

Welfare-to-work is a social program of the United States government. The concept is to wean sole parents and the disabled off their reliance on income support and encourage them back into the work force.

To encourage the various states to participate, various federal programs provide assistance and funding for transportation, vocational training, child care, and substance abuse treatment assistance for welfare recipients^{[citation needed]}.

The controversial program has met with mixed results.^{[citation needed]} In the UK, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair in particular were keen to use the idea of using welfare benefits as a way of encouraging and arguably forcing people into work.^{[citation needed]}

No citations.  Not very helpful.

Google pickings seem strangely obtuse.  What's up with that?

Ah-hah!

Which link takes us to *surprise* our good ol' pals at- 

Find out if you are eligible for any government benefits at GovBenefits.gov. Adoption and Foster Care Frequently Asked Questions about Adoption Frequently Asked Questions about Foster Care Child Welfare Information Gateway National Adoption Directory Birth Parents and Relatives Prospective and Adoptive Parents Child Abuse & Neglect Frequently Asked Questions about Child Abuse and Neglect Child Welfare Information Gateway How to Report Suspected Child Maltreatment Childhelp USA® Prevention

*SIGH*

I did find a good essay about the Welfare to Work program at the Census Bureau-

And several essays at-
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info_show.htm?doc_id=72223

Interesting essay about Oregon's minimum wage-
http://www.cbpp.org/529ormw.htm

I never did find out WHEN the Welfare to Work program began. Frankly the search gave me a headache and I don't feel the "need to know" that seriously.

Now circling around to where I started this essay- 

We have huge bureaucracies packed to the rafters with the most incompetent, ethically-challenged people on the face of the earth. 

The term "public servant" besides being an oxymoron, is a sick joke. In the USA today, the only public servant is the TAXPAYER. 

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” —Charles de Gaulle

The rest of us participate as "Marks" for the industrial swindlers and institutional hustlers, while we are trying to compete with the illegal aliens for what lousy jobs are left since almost all manufacturing jobs have been shut down and shipped overseas. 

Let us not forget all the people whose employability has been curtailed by the Character Assassination of black ops such as CPS. And thousands (hundreds of thousands? millions?) of innocent people are now in prison or getting out of prison who are also rendered unemployable. 

America already IS a third world country to us.

I think any good paying government job should have to recruit from the disabled and paper-damaged people first.  

And since so many of these incompetent, evil, lazy government employees have committed Federal Crimes, they need to become the new prison population and their mansions, funds, luxury autos, and toys distributed to the little people whose lives they destroyed.