Louisiana Whacko Totally Wrong
A number of people have written about this and gotten parts of the story wrong, including identifying the dillweed at the center of it as a Congresscritter. I’ll let Mark Waller of The Times-Picayune explain: LaBruzzo welfare views out of sync
State Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, says the government should consider cash incentives for poor people to undergo reproductive sterilization, because society is careering toward a day when those on public assistance outnumber taxpayers and the economy collapses. A look at Louisiana welfare numbers suggests his fear is unfounded.
Figures from the state Department of Social Services show recipients of the main form of welfare, the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program, have plunged from a monthly average of 280,177 people in fiscal 1990-91 to 13,504 people in 2006-07. The monthly grant to a qualifying parent with two children is now $240.
Total annual spending during the 16-year period dropped from $187.2 million to $16.5 million, less than legislators earmarked for pet projects.
Not all of the mental midgets among the politicians in a state run for Congress, some of them stay home to screw up the state’s government. If Louisiana started culling the herd, John LaBruzzo might find his name on the list for “tutoring”.
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well, he’s got one thing right — we’re heading towards a lot more people needing assistance if things keep going the way they are. and yeah, he should be the first in line for tutoring.
as for the welfare rolls dropping, i’ve read that it’s because under clinton’s [but let’s not forget gingrich’s contributions] welfare reform, people are pretty much just shoved off the rolls after a deadline, whether they still need help or not.
Well, at the time of welfare reform you could actually get a job because there was a Democrat in White House and the economy was generating jobs, so the welfare rolls were decreasing naturally.
Now, of course, they are exporting jobs, not products.