Darlene Zagata sees through the unstable foundations that are used to create certain government spending programs. "It's Not Welfare That Needs Reformed" appeared at hotfacts.com and I took the opportunity to discuss the Title IV Part D program and how, it too, was developed on an unstable foundation.
Here is my response to her article:
You reach an excellent set of points with “It’s Not Welfare That Needs Reformed” and that the “structure of all such programs needs a good hard evaluation and perhaps a complete reform from the bottom up since the foundation on which they were developed has been unstable right from the start.” I tend to agree full-heartedly with you on this point and it certainly does not only apply to SSI benefits.
Title IV Part D of the Social Security Act actually sets up a prepaid welfare scheme without any eligibility requirements at all. In fact the individual states have been abusing the program by now forcing the tax payers to foot the bill for the inclusion of the middle and upper-class income brackets into the program while the states leave the poor and needy behind.
Because the federal programs were developed on an unstable foundation like you indicate with SSI, we have a system of abuse and waste while the states focus on upper income collections to give the appearance that they are actually doing something with the taxpayer money they are really wasting on people that shouldn’t even be in the programs. Overparticipation definitely hurts the people that need the programs to survive.
Thanks for bringing these issues to the attention of the public. Feel free to contact me to discuss these issues further.
Lary Holland
The original article appears at: http://www.hotfact.com/it-is-not-welfare-that-needs-reformed.html
There is hope that people are becoming more aware of government waste and they are doing something about it.
