Fox News: Art Laffer- '100 Million Now On Federal Welfare'

Source:Fox News- right-wing economist Art Laffer, talking to Fox News about Federal Welfare.

"Not counting social security, medicaid and many more. This is Obama's Utopian dream for America coming to fruition. The Cloward-Piven strategy in full bloom. Create a dependent class of slaves who will perpetuate their own enslavement by continually electing those who promise more handouts until we are all equally poor and miserable.

The Marxist redistribution of wealth sounds good until you run out of other people's money to redistribute. Then it all collapses as we saw with the Soviet Union. C.S.Lewis said  "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

From USA Action News

I agree with Art Laffer I guess on one point and that's work requirements for Welfare. No where in America should Americans be getting more in income from our taxpayer funded government, then from working on their own. Even for people working minimum wage jobs and even working those jobs full-time, should be getting more in income, them people who don't work at all and are completely dependent on public assistance. Even if they had kids. I guess my approach to addressing this issue would be different from Mr. Laffer. 

I like the idea of subsidized employment where people on Welfare would go to work, even at minimum wage jobs, while they're in school or training to get themselves the skills that they need to get a good job and get off of public assistance all together and still be able to collect their public assistance payments, including their Welfare checks, while they're working. 

So under my system, if you are now on Welfare but then go to work even at let's say as fast food joint or a grocery store, you would get the income from working at your new job, but still keep your Welfare checks, as well as receive financial assistance to go back to school and get the training that you need to get yourself a good job and get off of public assistance all together. This is actually something that the Obama Administration was looking at in 2009-10 with the American Recovery Act to deal with the Great Recession. 

Under my system, people who are working regardless of the job and income, would get more money working, than not working. And anyone on Welfare would be required to not just go to work and look for work, but then take one of the first available jobs that they're qualified for, even if they have kids. While people who don't work and perhaps even don't want to work, would get less in income and eventually be kicked off of Welfare for failure to go to work, even if they have kids and could even lose their kids for failure to adequately support their kids.