Need is Not License to Steal

The left long ago determined that the "rights" of the needy are a claim to the wealth generated by the productive. Now the recession is hitting welfare recipients, too. Those poor thieves, they have my sincerest sympathies. Rhode Island is particularly harsh on their needy, expecting them to be weaned from the public teat and find a job. Their plight is highlighted by this article in the New York Times:

Kimberly E. Kaplan recently received a notice telling her that she and her three children were about to lose their monthly welfare benefit of $584 because they had reached the time limit on cash assistance and she had not made adequate efforts to find work.

Ms. Kaplan, 43, is required to work 20 hours a week, but is seeking a hardship exemption. Her 4-year-old son, Landon, has psychological and behavioral problems, and she said that “it’s a full-time job to take care of him.”

Rhode Island has the nation’s third-highest unemployment rate, but the welfare rolls here continue to decline because of the time limits and stringent work requirements.

Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of Americans receiving benefits under the main federal-state welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, has increased less than 10 percent, even though unemployment has nearly doubled and the number of people receiving food stamps has grown more than 40 percent, to 39 million.

As long as the government is willing to steal from the productive to support those who won't/don't/can't, there will be an increasing number of people willing to live off of the efforts of those who will/do/can. Take this example:

For Coralis I. Concepcion and her three boys in Woonsocket, R.I., cash assistance ended on Jan. 31.

They lost a monthly benefit of $584, and the impact, she said, has been drastic. “If we go out locally, we usually walk instead of using the car,” she said. Ms. Concepcion, 23, began receiving cash assistance four years ago, when her first son was born...

So she couldn't afford the first child and went on the dole. Knowing that she couldn't afford the first one, she had two more! That is the mind of a leach. That is the result of your "safety net". The author of this piece doesn't even entertain the notion for one syllable that their is any other possibility than a full blown welfare state. The wisdom of planning for the future is never instilled in these people. Just because you failed to think ahead more than your last payday, don't think that you have a right to what I have earned. Except, of course, that the government says that
you do.