GOP Congressman-Elect Grothman (R WI-6): Low-Income Programs A 'Bribe' To 'Not Work That Hard'

[big_dog]

In an interview this weekend with Milwaukee’s WISN, Republican congressman-elect Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin said that one of his priorities in the U.S. House will be to cut aid to low-income families, which he called “a bribe not to work that hard or a bribe not to marry someone with a full-time job” and “a strong incentive not to raise children in wedlock.”

“A single parent with a couple of kids can easily get $35,000 a year in total benefits between the health care and the earned income credit and the food share and the low-income housing and what have you,” he said.

“When you look at that amount of money, which is in essence a bribe not to work that hard or a bribe not to marry someone with a full-time job, people immediately realize you have a problem.”

Grothman told host Mike Gousha that he has hopes to “make a big change” on the issue under a “better president” than Obama.
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[louis-t]

1. Says the guy that will make $175,000 a year to work

mebbe 2 days a week, and loves giving the wealthiest people your tax money because they're already rich and entitled to it.....

[big_dog]

4. I would ask him why hes going to be taking every Friday off on our dime...

perhaps he should challenge the GOP leadership on that one

[spanone]

2. this asshole is on the national payroll....and only works to get re-elected.

[Turbineguy]

3. Kinda makes you miss

Hitler.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

5. And every person reading this thread is practically surrounded by people in their workplace

or family or both who AGREE with him.

The most horrid conversation I have ever had in my life, and I have had it a number of times with a number of people, both at work, in my family, in the public, is where I am told most assuredly that the biggest problem America has is the "takers" on government programs.





Just remarkable ignorance and hate.

[big_dog]

8. their hero Raygun said in the 1980s that food stamps & unemployment were the best kind of stimulus

quote that to all the right wingers and make their collective heads spin. it gets spend directly into the economy!

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

9. do you have a source for that? not that it will matter, they will reject it somehow

[PDJane]

6. Where is he getting his figures? Welfare isn't nearly that much.

Food stamps won't totally feed a family of any size.

I think he's pulling his figures out of his........well. Never mind where he's getting those.

[noiretextatique]

7. He sounds like Ben Carson

who has got a great race hustle going on. He claims Obama is "racist" because he gave more black people food stamps, you know, in exchange for their votes He doesn't say that by spouting his very selective nonsense on Fox and elsewhere, HIS goal is to get racists to vote for him. Ben Carson is great at saying crazy, ass-backwards shit and making it sound reasonable...at least to Fox viewers

[daredtowork]

10. There needs to be an effort to educate the public on "welfare"

The reason politicians of all stripes get away with grandstanding against Welfare Queen strawmen is that the details and processand surrounding issues of welfare are invisible to most people.

The fact is people evade that information if it doesn't directly impinge on their lives. Furthermore the details are fragmented since the rules can vary by COUNTY. But one thing is for sure, all counties manage their limited funds in ways to keep people deprived and encourage themvto get off of welfare. Imagine a homeless person getting a LOAN of $50/month to go toward shelter only - money issued to a payee. THAT is welfare.

I believe the figures this wingnut is quoting may be based on the money absorbed by the multiple bureaucracies whose conflicts and gaps heap further torment on victims of poverty (as well as make it more difficult to escape their condition). I speculate that my own poverty keeps several dozen people employed and padding their State pensions.

[tkmorris]

11. They ALL think this way

This isn't some blurted out admission by a fringe nutcase, ALL of the Repubs believe it. And the people that vote for them do too.

Our PR people suck.

[lpbk2713]

12. "Bring back the sweat shops"

They would love to see 12 year olds working 16 hour days for starvation wages.