Democratic mayor hands out $10,800 for economic equity program that funds lavish 5-day trip to Miami

https://www.foxnews.com/media/democ...y-agenda-one-blows-60-lavish-5-day-trip-miami

the story goes on to detail the woman’s hours on her trip to Miami. If you care to hear how it went you’re more than welcome to read it.

We literally have people starving in our streets. We have a drug crisis in many cities. We have crime in many major cities. We have real issues and where do our tax dollars go? To racial programs of people who mooch off the system anyway. I guarantee this woman who got this money wasn’t skinny from starvation or cold living in a tent. This ideology of free money from the left is destructive to society.

 

Fox news needs to explain who these taxpayer are? If these taxpayer are from DC Metro, then why the f$$$ people from Oklahoma care how DC Mayor spend DC tax dollar.

 

Of course it was a DC program. Where did you get Oklahoma from?

anyway, if your saying it’s only a DC problem you’re right. But DC is rampant in crime right now and the article points out that the city could have bought 25 police officers for the cost of this trial program. That’s right…. A trial program.

 

i am sorry DC is not rampant in crime.


The twenty cities with the highest violent crime rates (number of incidents per 100,000 people) are:

1. St. Louis, MO (2,082)
2. Detroit, MI (2,057)
3. Baltimore, MD (2,027)
4. Memphis, TN (2,003)
5. Little Rock, AR (1,634)
6. Milwaukee, WI (1,597)
7. Rockford, IL (1,58
8. Cleveland, OH (1,557)
9. Stockton, CA (1,415)
10. Albuquerque, NM (1,369)
11. Springfield, MO (1,339)
12. Indianapolis, IN (1,334)
13. Oakland, CA (1,299)
14. San Bernardino, CA (1,291)
15. Anchorage, AK (1,203)
16. Nashville, TN (1,13
17. Lansing, MI (1,136)
18. New Orleans, LA (1,121)
19. Minneapolis, MN (1,101)
20. Chicago, IL (1,099)

 

You don't have a right to be happy, Or do you?

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness remember.

 

There is no one starving. There is a ton of food for homeless people most of whom are actually just drug vagrants.

 

That’s not a right.

 

Shake my head…

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna134395

 

Google say D.C. has the 9th worst crime rate in the entire US in 2023. So, yes, it has a very high crime rate.

 

Well, the founders who drafted the US Constitution put happiness in the preamble to tell us what they were trying to do. So, while people can exist with a frown on their faces and get by with a hollow existence of mere survival, that isn't necessarily what the founders actually intended. I'll say it again: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are Constitutional and in the spirit of America. Be careful of dismissing happiness because tomorrow you could lose yours. You never know. There are also implications for the freedom of how one spends money after it becomes their own, despite the fact it came from a welfare program.

PS controlling the use of welfare dollars by placing limits on how it's spent is going out of style. There's a movement to switch from separate welfare programs to a lump sum payment every month and let the recipients choose for themselves how to spend it. There's no evidence that welfare recipients are bad with money, which is one of the arguments for controlling how welfare dollars are spent.

 

I don't think so... "Washington has a lower crime rate than similarly sized metro areas."

Washington, DC, Crime Rate & Safety | U.S. News (usnews.com)

 

I recall they did something like this to a poor African community. The result was that a large lump sum of cash up front led to better outcomes. The people tended to use the money to make a small business, e.g.

But one can also think of the differences in situation. Some people are poor for lack of opportunities. Some are poor because they manage money badly. In America, it's more often the poor management than in rural Africa.

So yeah, can agree this is ineffective policy in this context. If reducing poverty were the goal, something more like traditional food stamps with strings attached (e.g. long acting contraception use, seeking more employment and childcare options) would be a better idea.

 

And how well will be the requirement to actually get a job and contribute rather than just keep putting out your hand for your 'entitlement' be received?

 

Because bad government has a tendency to spread.

 

then don't vote for them in your region.
to you may be bad government, to me it is perfect government.

 

I don't vote anywhere. Pointless.

 

Thank goodness.

 

sadly, with Amazon, much of the money goes out of town anyways

global Corporatism is destroying capitalism

 

"The direct cash payments were part of a pilot program to determine whether the flush of cash could demonstrate "economic improvements among participants." "Additional cash has allowed women to achieve further financial stability, financial security, food security, and health insurance coverage," Bowser's office had claimed."

so this was just for women?

 

I love the term..............."participated in the program"

talk about a perversion of the term. What participation? They sat back and got free, taxpayer money