Public Assistance Recipients Can't Have Car Payments?

[upstatecajun]

“You need a car in this country, but you don’t need a car payment,” is one argument for cutting social services to impoverished Americans. The point being made is that people who have a car loan should not be allowed to receive government assistance. Allow me to retort…

If you are poor and want to buy a car, you can either take a couple grand, probably from your federal tax return, and buy a 90s model car from a questionable dealership, or you can use that couple grand as a down payment on a nicer vehicle.

Having lived through this myself, I can attest to the reality that buying an older car outright is not generally advisable, especially if that car is your sole means of transportation. Older cars are often unreliable. The result is that you end up paying for costly repairs. In my experience, when you fix one mechanical failure, you are soon to be met with a new one.

http://progressivetoo.com/2011/04/20/welfare-recipients-with-car-payments/

[Turbineguy]

1. Assistance to the poor

helps the economy. The economy provides jobs for middle class people. It's the GOP's job to destroy the middle class. Ergo: no public assistance for the poor.

[Vincardog]

4. It's NOT the GOP's job to destroy the middle class, it's the GOP's job to destroy anything not RICH

[midnight]

2. The poverty cycle never ends... Once it starts it's hard to stop it..

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. It is important that the poor...

...feel poor, be seen to be poor, and be constantly reminded that they are poor, and therefore less than the rest of us.

The number one cause of poverty in America, or anywhere, is not having sufficient money.

If all you want to do is actually address poverty, you give people money.

Anything you do that's not giving people money, is producing a morality play, with a cast of largely involuntary actors, largely drafted by chance and accident, into their roles, roles they do not want.

But America loves morality plays.

[Solly Mack]

5. k/r

[Yo_Mama]

6. In some cases this would mean they can't work

Bad idea. Really, really bad idea.

In a lot of areas no transportation means no work, so the logic here would imply that an awful lot of people could never get off public assistance. I, for one, do not look forward to a USA with beggars a la Calcutta.

[OregonBlue]

7. Where did you get the "public Assistance Recipients Can't have Car Payments"?

It's not in the link.

[upstatecajun]

8. from the first part of the post....

"The point being made is that people who have a car loan should not be allowed to receive government assistance."

[OregonBlue]

9. So, where did the person posting get it? There's no information there, just an opinion. I still

don't know what they are talking about. To my knowledge it's not illegal for a person on assistance to buy a car. Do you know otherwise?

[upstatecajun]

10. I think

The person posting was pointing out Gen. Tea Bagger or GOP talking points and yes it is his opinion.....now I do know some states such as Louisiana will base their help on the fact that you have a car or property.