Comments about ‘Shifting focus: Safety net supports middle class, working families’

We have spent trillions on the safety net. Had that money been evenly distributed among all Americans over the age of twenty one, we'd all be rich. So, why an increase of poor people? Somebody is taking advantage of the system and pocketing the loot.

Shifting focus: Safety net supports middle class, working families - Title

Ok.

Let's LOOK at that 'safety net.'

** Republicans kill Senate jobless aid measure' - By Andrew Taylor - AP - Published by DSNews - 06/24/10

** Senate Republicans - again - kill bill for jobless aid' - By Stephen Ohlemacher - AP - Published by DSNews - 06/30/10

After 2010 Midterms?

** House GOP blocks bill to extend jobless benefits By Andrew Taylor AP 11/18/10

Effect?

** 'Cut-off of jobless aid would lower economic growth' - By Paul Wiseman - AP - Published by DSNews - 11/30/10

** 'Budget office says $1 spent on jobless aid generates $1.90 in economic growth' article

You cannot claim the 'safety net' will help poor Americans...

..if you work, to DENY it too, poor Americans.

Some of the examples of the 'safety net' are Medicare.

** Gov. Jan Brewer: No funds for transplants' - by Mary Jo Pitzl - Az Central - 12/11/10

** Medicaid Cuts Killing Ariz. Transplant Patients' - By Ben Tracy - CBS News - 01/06/11

** Budget cuts stop Phoenix man from getting new liver' - By Michelle Ye Hee Lee - Published by USA Today - 11/17/10

Result?

** Two Dead Since Arizona Medicaid Program Slashed Transplant Coverage' - By JANE E. ALLEN - ABC News - 01/06/11

Two Arizona Medicaid recipients denied potentially life-saving organ transplants have died...(sic)
...that the state's GOP governor, Jan Brewer, and GOP-led legislature said they could no longer afford. - Article

"In 2010, 91 percent of the benefit dollars from entitlement and other mandatory programs went to the elderly".

The safety net would be very small, had the elderly not spent most of their lives putting into it. Can't blame the elderly for our ballooning debt. Someone needs to take away Obama's credit card. After spending more than all presidents combined, he holds the worlds record for spending.