The Program “Arkansas Works” and the insidious “Medicaid budget” and Benjamin Franklin’s solution for the poor. April 7, 2019
Gov. Hutchinson, Senator Pitsch and the Arkansas Legislature’s proposed enormous expansion of welfare, formally known as Obamacare.
Minutes after Gov. Hutchinson was inaugurated he initiated a pursuit to incubate the remaining germ of Obamacare translating into debt and a huge increase in welfare numbers. Who pays for the redistribution? Middleclass Arkansan’s of course.
The Act immediately created 350,000 new welfare addicts, now claimed to be reduced to 250,000.
This proposed economic theft taking shape in the Marble Palace is in plain view of the fact there is a robust national economic growth and a historical 4% unemployment, the lowest rate in the past 5 decades.
50% of Arkansans are on some type of welfare and Arkansas is in the top 5 highest taxed state in the nation. How many legals & illegals with the numbers growing (open borders) do you suppose are grazing in the Arkansas welfare trough, compliments of Beebe, Hutchinson, and especially Huckabee (e.g. Mexican Consulate, free pre-natal care & all ancillary services for illegal Latino women), and et al.
It is noteworthy that fewer than 100 individuals out of the previously mentioned 250,000-350,000 are employed under the program Arkansas Works as “required”. A recent study by Yale-MIT estimated 22 million illegals in our country.
Senator Mathew Pitsch, Hutchinson’s enforcer, recently made these ridiculous remarks: The Times Record headline of March 3. 2019 stated that Pitsch backs the state program (expanded Obamacare—Arkansas Works). Maybe for some the eye-openers in Pitsch’s revelations, particularly misguided Republicans, is astounding—Hutchinson and his “screw” Pitsch want to work their will and pass an unrealistic $8-9 billion Medicaid package to be included in the 2019 budget.
Excerpts from Pitsch’s remarks in the Times Record. Saturday, 3/30/19. “Plenty of caveats within Arkansas Works for PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE TO WORK. Such exemptions include being MORE THAN 50 YEARS OLD.” The Governor, Pitsch and the General Assembly power pod are toxic narcissists. 50 year old folks are in the prime of life. Another zinger, “IF YOU ARE UNDER A CERTAIN AGE (50) AND HEALTHY, THEN WE’D LIKE YOU TO GET A JOB to keep YOUR FREE healthcare. Open borders, frontal assaults in the thousands by illegal aliens subsidized by you feckless fools…who is “we”, define “free” and the cost to each middleclass Arkansan.
Senator Pitsch, are you still the CEO (chief hustler) for name-change to WAIA (Western Arkansas Intermodal Authority)? You are the centerfold for government abuse.
Pitsch continued by saying he gets calls from other states asking “how do you do this”? (Arkansas Works) No art to stealing middleclass Arkansans money in broad daylight for redistribution to foreign nationals and politicians.
Americans, we have crossed the Rubicon of Enlightenment and Reason.
Now the note from my good friend Benjamin Franklin about the poor.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty.“
Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net