Red Pill Sentinel
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact

If the GOP decides to focus on best practices for welfare programs it will soon find itself facing the same problem Democrats have

7/25/2014

0 Comments

 
http://minx.cc:1080/?post=350709 Ace of Spades

�Reform conservatism� is all the rage in the GOP these days. From middle class plans in �Room to Grow� to anti-poverty reform ideas fromMarco Rubio and Paul Ryan, many on the right are rushing to prove they can �govern� (you know, use the levers of big government not actually shrink the government).
Ryan unveiled his plan yesterday in a presentation at AEI. The centerpiece of his idea is �the opportunity grant�.


In participating states, the federal government would consolidate a number of means-tested programs into a new Opportunity Grant (OG) program. The largest contributions would come from SNAP, TANF, child-care, and housing-assistance programs, and the funding would be deficit-neutral relative to current law.First of all, �deficit-neutral� means we�re not cutting any money or programs here, we just spending it differently.

So now that saving money is off the table, what�s so great about how this money will now be spent?

Participating states would have to offer at least one alternative benefit provider other than the state.

In the envisioned scenario providers would work with families to design a customized life plan to provide a structured roadmap out of poverty. When crafting a life plan, they would include, at a minimum:� A contract outlining specific and measurable benchmarks for success

� A timeline for meeting these benchmarks

� Sanctions for breaking the terms of the contract

� Incentives for exceeding the terms of the contract

� Time limits for remaining on cash assistance


The OG program will also be more responsive to different needs. For example, it makes little sense to provide a household with a consistent stream of SNAP benefits when what the household may need most is reliable transportation to and from work. Giving providers this kind of flexibility will allow them to intervene early on with targeted benefits in cases where short-term assistance can prevent someone from falling into deeper poverty

Some of this is silly but all of it is unrelated to government as it actually works in the real world.

Does anyone think an army of federally subsidized state worker or charity based life coaches are going to effectively sit down with millions of people on public assistance to create a personal �roadmap out of poverty� complete with a timeline of milestones to be met? Is the problem of poverty (at least the deep inter-generational kind) that people don�t have a game plan? The real problems of poverty are often poor life choices, terrible luck in being born into some horrific circumstances, finding yourself locked not into an education system but a union pay and pension racket and on and on. No amount of positive affirmations and tricks from the Seven Habits of Highly Successful People are going to undo that.

And why will know this new and exciting approach is working better than the old way? We�ll do studies!


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Writers

    Yvonne Burton...there is no collection of writers...it's just me.

    ​And then there were two....meet my brother Lewis

    Picture
    Picture

    Archives

    August 2021
    April 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014

    Alternative Media
    Ace of Spades
    Gateway Pundit
    Instapundit
    Powerline
    The Conservative Treehouse
    Zerohedge

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly