Los Angeles County supervisors are scrambling for ways to save money. They suggested putting unemployed parents to work caring for their own children as part of the proposed changes to CalWorks and other state government aid programs.
This could save nearly $270 million. They want to target the cuts to the people who are the most expensive. What do you think? Do you think that the County or State should be paying parents to babysit their own kids? Don’t you worry that if the state pays fellow single mothers to stay home, they will become dependent on welfare? Many parents would join this new wave of having kids and getting paid to watch their own kid bandwagon. Let’s let our readers speak.
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“The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of dollars for education,” said Antonovich. “With $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $432 million in welfare allocations, illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers.”
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O my God, this state is in so much trouble.
How about if you can’t efford them, don’t have them!
I think its just going to be just as horrible as the elder home care program, another entitlement that will cost us an arm and a leg and just to promote unionization. OH JOY! SEIU is going to get more union members, parents being paid to watch their kids instead of going to work doing something else.
If they are already recieving assistance, why should we be paying someone else to watch there kids anyway ?
A bit of social policy history seems in order here. CalWORKS is California’s program to implement the federally mandated welfare reform of 1997. CalWORKS replaced the much hated Aid to Families with Dependent Chidlren (AFDC) program. It requires job training or actual work of welfare recipients, and will pay for child care or most any other excuse a welfare mom may have to not particpate in job training (including approved education)or work. The theory being that while it may cost more on a monthly basis to provide this support to a welfare mom and her kids, in the long run it will lead to employment and leaving the welfare rolls and that’s the payoff for the taxpayers as well as the mom and her kids. The current LA County proposal seems to translate into rolling back to the old AFDC program where welfare moms were expected to stay home and care for their kids – with all the baggage that came with that, including incentivizing having more kids to stay on welfare, teens seeing pregnancy and AFDC as a way to escape from their own parents, being lazy and irresponsible, etc. Cheaper in the short run, but the likelihood of long term, multi-generational welfare dependency increases significantly. Pay now, pay later. Everyone, from taxpayers to welfare families, pretty much hated AFDC – the thought of going back to it is rather curious, in my opinon. Sort of like saying how much money we could save right away if we stopped childhood immunizations.
I am so sick of paying for other peoples’ kids. I CHOSE to not have any yet the single, unmarried folks such as myself are taxed to death. Enough is enough. Michelle, I agree. If you can’t afford kids, don’t have them. This really bothered me when I heard about it. Wake up, California!
I am sure this country is in a mess, with people in charge like this. Maybe we should pay me to clean my house, do my dishes, mow my grass and while they are at it…Pay me to go on a Vacation Cruise.
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Jill,
I went to the Caloptima board earlier this month.
I reamed the board at the fact that they have a program called california kids program that give’s free health insurance to Mexican Nationalist(i state Mexican nationalist,s because that is the majortiy) that can’t get medical or healthy families. I stated to the board of which one of them is John Moorlach Supervisor, “why are American taxpayers paying for Illegal Alien health care, when we ourselves have a hard time affording it”, Of course the refused to anwser, they just cringed in their seats. And so did all the non-profit’s that were there!
I reamed them for about 5min’s, they looked like mice caught by the cat!
I am sending a letter to the DA office of orange county, because they are breaking state and federal law’s using medical money to fund programs for Illegal Alien’s.
People need to start standing up for their right’s and not be afraid to speak the truth!
Government like’s to grow and they will use who ever the can whether they are illegal or not! The govenment love’s those who will take entitlements!
Read my lips: STOP HAVING KIDS IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD THEM!
First off not everyone plans to have their kids. Second, no one is going to say hey lets have kids just so we can get a little assistance to pay for SOME of the kid’s costs. OBVIOUSLY you are not a mother or you’d understand some of it.
For the first year or so it is best for the mother to be at home with the baby, especially if she will be breast feeding which is the best choice to make. She shouldn’t just sit back though and not try to do anything for herself. At least take some school classes online or try to do some online work if she can. Also it’s single women who will be receiving help, not a couple.
People who abuse the system and have so many kids are really messing up things for everyone else.