Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Change the Word 'Welfare' to 'Transitional Living Fund'

[Geee]

CNS News:

CNSNews.com) - In a brief speech on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) hailed the war on poverty, endorsed government welfare programs, and said the "safety net has to be something for all of us."

 

"Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is -- for people to be able to live," she said.

 

Jackson Lee hailed the Earned Income Credit, food and nutrition programs, jobs training and education programs, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act as "huge safety nets -- not handouts, but safety nets, she said.

[clearvision]

Safety nets that are used like hammocks?

[Geee]

Those Dems are big on name changes - climate change- progressive - transitional living. I guess it all depends on what is - is?

[NCTexan]

I have a word that hasn't changed for Shiela Jackson Lee.... but my "better angels" stopped me from typing it.

[Valin]

Transitional Living Fund? The question is transiting from what to what. For some its birth to death.

[Rheo]

She can change all the words she wants, but she is still and will probably remain. Stupid.

[nickydog]

Transitional Living Fund? The question is transiting from what to what. For some its birth to death.

 

 

If it really was transitional it might be a bit more acceptable.

[Valin]

 

Transitional Living Fund? The question is transiting from what to what. For some its birth to death.

 

If it really was transitional it might be a bit more acceptable.

 

In some places social welfare programs can be equal to a $60,0000 a year job.

[righteousmomma]

Sheila Jackson Lee is unmitigatedly stupid and most tragically is convinced otherwise.

It blows my mind that such are some of our royal class politicians of the USA

[Valin]

Sheila Jackson Lee is an unmitigatedly stupid and most tragically is convinced otherwise.

Stupid people always are.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[righteousmomma]

Right on, bro