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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was on welfare after I left my former husband, and had two kids under three.  An extra $750 a month would have been life changing.

Happy to report that like most welfare recipients, I was off the doles after a couple of years.  I am all for this.[/quote]

Not in the DMV area - especially as you get closer into the City.

For example Alexandria City - multi generation families living in public housing and receiving welfare than moving to disability which is now defacto welfare. And of course DC where there are no actual welfare time limits thus you have kids born today who have parents, who live with grandparents and great grandparents - who all receive/received welfare.

The problem with these programs when done on a small scale is that once the help ends the person goes right back to where they were before AND the cost of living has gone up a little in that time and their wages didn’t AND they got used to spending more money. So now they have to adjust to slightly higher prices, stagnant wages, and suddenly and quickly adjust their budget. The basically get lifted up and crashed down.

Then if you expand these programs and continue them, someone has to pay and taxes go up. AND the middle class families can’t afford the increased taxes and their day to day living so they begin to search out new housing. As the middle class gets squeezed it leaves very wealthy and very poor and as this happens the very poor stay very poor because there is no where to go. They aren’t going to become very rich. And they can’t become middle class because there is no reasonable way to live on a middle class salary.

The better approach is to help families purchase housing. No it won’t be a house but there are plenty of condos that are available throughout the DMV area that are perfectly acceptable housing. [/quote]

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