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and make them work for lower, non union wages.
If there's anything you can count on from most of the lunatics on Fox Gop Koch Fraudcasting
shows on Saturdays, it's that if there's a way to trash unions or to paint
anyone who receives any sort of government assistance as lazy,
good-for-nothing loafers who just want to suck off of the
government teet, they're going to do it.
What could possibly be wrong with getting rid of union MTA workers
only to have them replaced with welfare recipients? It's nothing
but a big race to the bottom where the Wall Street bankers in New
York get their tax breaks and after saying the layoffs are
necessary because the city's broke, union workers get replaced by
those with no protections in place working for minimum wage. And if
these welfare recipients are single mothers, just who is supposed
to be paying for their daycare while they're out there cleaning the
subways in New York City? And just what type of meaningful job
training are you giving anyone by teaching them how to push a
broom? Looks like none to me.
I'm all for programs that help those on welfare gain some skills so
they can get back into the workforce and earn a decent living
instead of having to be dependent on the government, and where
they're allowed to work without being cut off of their benefits if
that job training is going to lead to them being independent and
able to earn a living wage where they can take care of themselves
and their families. I don't see how this is one of them.
I agree with the one outnumbered "liberal" on the panel who they
actually allowed some air time. When host Cheryl Casone asked
Christian Dorsey about whether this might help any of those workers
get a full time job, we got one of the few moments of truth out of
this segment.
DORSEY: Look, I'm all for making sure that people who have been
left out of the workforce and who are on welfare receiving public
assistance get the skills to be self sufficient, but remember,
welfare is now administered by the states. It's not an overall
federal program. It's block granted. And what's happening in New
York is cause for alarm, not praise Cheryl. They're laying off
transit workers and replacing them with lower cost transient
workers, so this is in essence getting rid of decent jobs for
people, adding to unemployment and then saving money by putting
welfare recipients in those jobs that used to be held by
non-welfare recipients. It's not improving the overall job
situation in New York or in the country. This is bad policy.
And one of the worst parts of this segment was Fox hack Jonathan
Hoenig letting everyone know what conservatives think about anyone
receiving welfare at all.
HOENIG: What about just getting rid of welfare? Let me just throw
that one out there Cheryl as a real alternative idea. I mean, point
to me somewhere in the Constitution where it says anything about
charity. It does not. Now were the founders such (?) were they such
jerks that they didn't want to put that? No. Of course because
charity is something that should be privately motivated. And I'm
sorry Cheryl, working for money. That's called a job, not another
government assistance program, another government handout program.
And of course in Hoenig's mind, anyone on welfare is just some lazy
person who wants to destroy our economy, unlike those poor
businesses that might be forced to pay more taxes so women and
children aren't left to starve on the streets while they outsource
the jobs they'd probably love to have to China and India, where the
workers there can work for slave wages instead.
When this country relied on the good will of the rich to provide
for the welfare of the least among us instead of asking all of us
to take care of each other, things didn't work out so well. People
like this turd tool Hoenig are more than happy to perpetuate a system
that's taking us right back there, along with his buddies at Fox Gop Koch Fraudcasting
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