There is a Furniture Bank of Central Ohio.
This helps the poor get free furniture to furnish their apartments and homes (rent paid for by you with Section 8 and welfare). Furniture is donated, so there is no money on the government ledger. This actually is not for the poor. This is for the poor that have social workers and case managers. These can be parolees, recovering addicts, and even people in the child protective services (CPS) web. Yes, you or your partner beat your kid to a pulp but get furniture if you promise not to do it again! A case manager refers a person in a “difficult situation,” and said person can pick up 14-16 items for their home. One has to be part of the system to reap the benefits of the system. Employed college graduates with mountains of debt do not reap this benefit. There is no starter apartment for them....We are told it’s the “good” thing to help these people. What is the help? The help seems to be in making their life free to chase fun, whether drugs, drinking, or sex. They all get to pursue their fun in relative comfort provided by you and I. The kids can be snatched up and sent to Head Start while mom does… whatever recovering addicts of child abusers do… and then the kid comes home to sleep in a bed and sit on a couch, rather than on milk crates and cinder blocks. Mom can still eat plenty (EBT from you and me!), pop pills (Medicaid, from you and me!) and today we see our poorest citizens are also our fattest citizens. - See more at: http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/11/22/hidden-subtle-underclass-coddling/#sthash.A1xMkQce.dpuf Hidden, Subtle Underclass Coddling - Social Matter
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service estimates that we currently operate over 80 programs that provide food, housing, healthcare, job training, education, energy assistance, and cash to low-income Americans. “Here is a graphic depiction of that array of benefit programs designed to help low-income individuals and families. Chairman Boustany: Better Coordinating Welfare Programs to Serve Families in Need - Ways and Means
[UPDATE: "I am rather perturbed by the rip on the Furniture Bank. I am a long time donor at an elevated level. I have been most impressed by their operation. They are what a charity ought to be, private, privately funded, and local. Indeed they are to me a model for abolishing all "welfare systems". It is possible that some of the clients have not been angles. Actually it is certain. Nonetheless, as the tax funded system collapses, the country will need a lot more Furniture Banks, and less of the Congressional fustercluck pictured above." -- FatMan]
To see said chart.....
I am rather perturbed by the rip on the Furniture Bank. I am a long time donor at an elevated level. I have been most impressed by their operation. They are what a charity ought to be, private, privately funded, and local. Indeed they are to me a model for abolishing all "welfare systems". It is possible that some of the clients have not been angles. Actually it is certain. Nonetheless, as the tax funded system collapses, the country will need a lot more Furniture Banks, and less of the Congressional fustercluck pictured above.
Posted by: Fat Man at December 6, 2015 7:53 PMFat Man,I stand with you. I spend 2 days a week working at a similar local charity. Zero percent taxpayer money. One of the bylaws forbids holding more than 2 months budget in the bank. Yes there are those who take advantage but even they have so pathetically little. But when you see somebody who just got out of a shelter go from 4 bare walls to a home you know you are on the right road.
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As Mr Boustany said: to SERVE Families in need.
Excuse me, but wasn't involuntary servitude outlawed back in the 19th century? Why indeed do we take money from hard working people and give it to others? I do not live to serve others, except as encountered in a voluntary exchange. In-voluntary, as in forced at the point of a weapon by IRS stooges, is called slavery in some circles.
Obviously, I am taking this to the extreme, but where in the Constitution is the power to force me to give the fruits of my labor to someone else?
Un-forced, fine by me. Forced, not so much
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