Coping With Welfare Equals Losing 13 IQ Points

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40. I totally agree - church programs do nothing to lift people out of poverty

The programs I mention are only small patches in a very leaky bucket. They are absolutely essential right now. But even they do not meet crying needs - like meeting regular rent payments to keep someone from becoming homeless (because the $336/month loan General Assistance welfare payment is too low, and the landlord rejects that as rent in an area where rooms in houses are renting for $900/month).

The welfare program is in the process of being stealthily eliminated, and nothing is replacing it. And no one is asking what is happening to the people who need it, once their unemployment insurance runs out or while they are waiting 3 freaking years for an SSI claim to process.

If politicians cover up what is happening to these people, that is corruption.

If the nation chooses not to look or lets it happen, then we are collectively guilty of human rights violations on a massive scale. And we have no moral standing to go around lecturing the rest of the world on their human rights abuses.