http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/25/libertarian-think-tank-conducts-welfare-study-publishes-highly-misleading-and-illogical-results/
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank founded as the “Charles Koch Foundation” in 1974 (source: PDF), recently released a study (PDF) that had the internet abuzz, because it seemed to indicate welfare pays better than a minimum wage job, and as such, needs to be cut so that people have incentive to work again.
Not only is that extremely misleading, but it’s telling of the anarcho-capitalist lobby within the libertarian community — especially the Koch-funded part. Benefits are intended to keep people housed and from starving. When that’s more than minimum wage does, it’s time to raise the wage, not cut benefits and let them starve.To start with, the study is a lie. Although the information isn’t completely false, the presentation of it is so misleading that it erases any real use of the data. As Raw Story explains,Taken at face value, the study is actually a stinging indictment of America’s low-wage economy. Only two of the 33 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)devote a smaller share of their economic output to programs that help poor families make ends meet than the United States – Mexico and South Korea. If those relatively stingy benefits provide more than one can earn working a minimum wage job – the authors say that’s true of 35 states – then the minimum wage is obviously not enough to get by on. (…)They also acknowledge the central flaw in their conclusion: in real life the “typical” family in their study doesn’t come close to receiving the maximum benefit from every single program for which they’re eligible.But here the authors’ caveat doesn’t go far enough. Due largely to the fact that eligibility requirements have already become harder to overcome, these programs are helping fewer poor families get by. In 2009, around three out of four poor families with kids weren’t getting any TANF benefits.At the height of the economic crash, about 25 percent of those eligible for food stamps weren’t receiving them; during better times, that number hovers around 40 percent. And as the CATO study concedes, six out of seven poor families aren’t getting housing assistance.
wonder the Koch merchants of death allowed that info through, if defeats their misdirection of blame and lies it clearly where it belongs.
in over embellishing on your lies you tend to go 180 degrees and the truth comes out over talking you go to fast and repetitive and you are your own rebuker.
you would think as long a they have been in the misinformation business they would have it down well they do how to initiate it but when it comes to the long haul the wheels fall off the tryuck turns over and the truth spills out.
Dr. M L King quoted Victor Hugo
He quoted Victor Hugo and stated: “Where there is darkness crimes will be committed. The guilty one is not merely he who commits the crime but he who caused the darkness.”
