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Related: About this forumFox News contributor: ‘It gets a little comfortable to be in poverty’
Appearing Saturday on Fox Newss Cavuto on Business, contributor Charles Payne insisted that he knows firsthand how it gets to be a little comfortable to be in poverty in the United States.
Theres this idea that between the food stamps and the welfare and the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit and the local programs, you know, it gets a little comfortable to be in poverty, he said. Listen, Ive lived it first hand. Ive seen when people dont go to work because they get everything paid for them. The incentive is not there.
Payne, one of the networks more vocal critics of assisting the poor and under employed, expanded on his theory about the laziness of poor people during a broadcast last Thursday, explaining that hes disappointed so many Americans over 47 million, according to the latest official numbers are on food stamps. What we actually have ended up doing is created a wall, a giant barrier, where people dont move out of poverty into the middle class because in that initial transition they actually lose money and lose benefits, he said.
Payne is essentially repeating a common meme among many conservatives who believe that helping poor people keeps them poor and only fosters dependence and the growth of state benefit payments. What many Fox News reports on this subject fail to note is that 90 percent of all welfare benefits go to either members of working households, the elderly or the disabled, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/31/fox-news-contributor-it-gets-a-little-comfortable-to-be-in-poverty/
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Hi,
Yeah, poor people are all living so comfortably. This goes back to Reagan with the welfare queen and probably before that I am sure. What a total idiot.
Peace
BootinUp
(47,143 posts)so I can be comfortable? Maybe he should consider it too.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)From working.
ScottLand
(2,485 posts)PolitFreak
(236 posts)Are there courses we could take?