Welfare in New York

[sailaway21]

I'm interested in reactions to this article.
NYC'S WASTEFUL WELFARE GIVEAWAY - New York Post

[bubb2]

I know your are just trying to make fun of me, but it's ok. Just keep the checks coming. lol It is sad but there are those that think that way.

[US27inKS]

Wouldn't that 433 million dollars be better spent fighting off the community organizers who's litigation is causing this?

Do some people need a hand up? sure. 31K per year while you close down libraries for the rest of the kids? I don't think so.

[Cruisingdad]

Get out of welfare and give em Vodka! It worked for the Russians!!

- CD

[xort]

Hey, if I live on my boat, am I homeless?
How do i sign up to be a NYC resident?

[CrazyRu]

Originally Posted by xort

Hey, if I live on my boat, am I homeless?
How do i sign up to be a NYC resident?

Are you single mother too?

In reality those millions are subsidary for a rent.

It works like tax break Bush just gave us. Goverment gives a check to landlord every month, so he can spend it on shopping, building new houses and creating new jobs...

[sck5]

Hey Bloomberg has done a pretty good job. It isnt easy changing course on ANYTHING in NYC (or most other places for that matter) but Bloomberg seems to be trying to move in the right direction. He has a very pragmatic outlook which seems to be working. I will go with him on what to do. NYC is a far more pleasant place to be nowadays than it was 15 or 20 years ago. The change is really remarkable.

[tommays]

For the most part we are stuck with laws about dealing with homeless familys that dont provide funding

Are you really going to leave children on a frozen doorstep in a NYC winter


And its pretty much the same thing out on Long Island with the leading reciever being a white female with child and a deadbeat dad

[xort]

Originally Posted by tommays

Are you really going to leave children on a frozen doorstep in a NYC winter

Why not? We're willing to saw their skull open and suck their brains out. Just clean them up by spring or they'll start stinking.

[sailaway21]

tommays,
Apparently the level of welfare mothers has risen to meet the level of funding! The author seems to think that if all they had to look forward to was a FEMA trailer somewhere on Pier 23 in Brooklyn that the demand on the city by "homeless" mothers would go down. Your argument saying that we'd just leave them out in the cold has been made at every step of welfare reform and it has proven not to be the case in the vast majority of those cases. There are families and charities to deal with them. The difference being that young single mothers would rather get a hand-out from the city versus dealing with their family or a charity that might ask something in return.

That sck5 ascribes the change in NYC to Mayor Bloomberg and not Rudolph Giuliani is of little surprise. Bloomberg has cultivated a decent rep as Giuliani-Lite. Likewise that he parrots the old liberal pol line that these things take time. What was remarkable about Giuliani was that he didn't fall for that old obstructionist line. He started the reforming on day one. that's the only way you beat the professional do-gooders bureaucracy.