wo Birds, One Stone: Congressman Reveals Simple Way to Cut Border Crossings and Welfare Spending

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-13 11:44:04 | Updated at 2025-01-13 18:23:19 6 hours ago

wo Birds, One Stone: Congressman Reveals Simple Way to Cut Border Crossings and Welfare Spending
westernjournal.com ^ | Ben Zeisloft

Posted on 01/13/2025 3:28:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has an incredibly simple proposal for reducing both welfare spending and illegal immigration.

As the new Congress convened, the lawmaker took to social media and asked how anyone can argue against “work requirements for able-bodied individuals on welfare.”

He then noted how passing a simple work requirement could address two of the most severe drains on the nation while benefiting the economy as a whole.

“Implement this and not only does the deficit go down, demand for illegal immigrant labor is reduced, and national economic productivity increases,” Massie wrote of his proposal.

“Republicans should pass this immediately,” he added.

There could not be a more common-sense solution to several of our national problems than refusing to hand out free money to people who should otherwise be able to work.

Just consider the scope of this problem.

According to a report from the Foundation for Government Accountability published in May 2023, able-bodied adults were receiving $348 billion per year in Medicaid and $55 billion per year in food stamps.

All of those people sitting at home and letting their hardworking neighbors fund their lifestyles are also an implicit drain on the productivity of the nation.

“In addition to harming the truly needy and taxpayers, able-bodied adults on welfare affect the overall economy,” the report noted. “This can be seen in the slow growth the country is experiencing. Much of this can be attributed to a shortage of workers.”

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1 posted on 01/13/2025 3:28:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux

To: Admin Moderator

Could you please add the letter “T” to the front of this title. Thx and sorry for the trouble.

2 posted on 01/13/2025 3:29:38 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )

To: RoosterRedux

Blacks have successfully argued against welfare work requirements forever.

3 posted on 01/13/2025 3:33:50 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: RoosterRedux

This will go nowhere. The rats and RINO’s don’t want people to work. Welfare buys votes. Illegals running over the boarder buys votes. Stopping this would be their ruin.

The real villains are the politicians. Term limits are the answer. Something else that will never happen, for they will never vote themselves out of office.

4 posted on 01/13/2025 3:40:00 AM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)

To: RoosterRedux

“able-bodied adults were receiving $348 billion per year in Medicaid and $55 billion per year in food stamps.”

As bad as that is it’s no match for GOPe/dem/uniparty overspending, $100,000,000,000 every 100 days.

5 posted on 01/13/2025 3:42:08 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)

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