The Welfare Capitals Of America
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- Who is getting the most handouts? These states are.
In this video, we'll look at which states have the most welfare recipients. We'll look at welfare, food stamps, TANF, social security and Medicare and Medicaid.
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The highest welfare capitial is the US house of rep. and senate i DC.
Mitch McConnel's home state. VA, Kentucky taking top states, West VA coal country. They pay less in federal taxes, yet they get the most money.
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Damn, Robert nailed it!
Facts
Exactly
Perhaps "we" should not have exported "our" manufacturing jobs to Mexico or China or Viet Nam or etc.!
That's how Capitalism works. Even if thise jobs were still here they would still be on welfare. To pay them a decent livable wage would cut into profits.
we don't export manufacturing jobs to mexico or china.....the owners of the businesses have the freedom to move to any place they want or any place that suit better their financial situations and nobody can prohibits them. Is their money and their belongings and they can move anywhere they want. It takes a super ignorant people to believe a moron that say i will bring manufacturing jobs back....saying i will prohibits businesses and their owners to move is clear fascism or dictator
News for you dude. I’m from the UK and I can assure you it’s not just you guys that have exported jobs to Asia. It’s just cheaper over there. It’s that simple.
@@scottwatson2779 are you dumb? The more we tax and regulate everybody, the less willing they are to stay. That’s why Trump was so successful at bringing jobs and manufacturing back. That’s why there was extremely low unemployment and lower classes had surpluses for the first time in 10 years. That is capitalism. Socialism is what keeps money and those that generate it away. If there’s one thing we’ve learned these past 4 years it’s that if you give these people not to send their jobs to China they won’t but punishing them for running a business is a fast track to that.
So TRUE
Actually Social Security is something we pay into all our lives. The one the government alway takes from to fund other programs! so it is not welfare. They need to keep their “hands out” of the Social Security funds!
Most people collect far more money than ever paid into social security.
@@TheBandit7613 are you kidding me? Do you realize that money does collect interest and our government uses it for all their pork spending at the detriment of the social security program that people have paid into for decades? Pleas do your research, deep dive.
@@katden220 You ever buy a US Savings Bond? What does the government then do with that money before you get it back? That's what SS does. SSA has a nice web site
The average retiree uses up all that they paid in to soc. sec. within 2 years. After that, it becomes welfare. Sorry, but thats the facts, like it or not.
@@sharoncrawford3042 then when you retire only collect it for two years. Show the rest of us how wrong we are.
When you work 50 hours a week and still qualify for snap yeah we are the problem
@Heraldo Medrano Because college is super affordable
@Heraldo Medrano absolutely, or learn a skill. Jobs that will provide a good quality of life are everywhere. But it takes some effort.
Minimum wage jobs are not supposed to be the main income to support a family.
@@chevelle1 and what if your community has lost its main employer(s)? Then you have to take what you can get. Many places like Walmart do not pay a living wage. If you would like to eat as well as pay rent, you have to apply for food stamps and go to pantries. These things are really happening! People working full time and then some and they cannot afford the high cost of living. They wind up on food stamps and homeless shelters trying desperately to make their lives better while pious judgmental people sit on their high horses and blame the victims.
@@mimilini1 I agree with you. These people who say "get an education" are very shortsighted.
@@cjjaxxon thank you! I’m glad you get it! We have a serious poverty issue here in the states and there are various reasons why. Welfare and social security were designed as a safety net. Since corporate greed and shameful politicians (on both sides) started dipping into it, we didn’t stop them from stealing our money and now we’re left with the consequences. People who haven’t had to face such desperate times are very lucky. Others have to face it day by day. If you get a chance, read Nickel and Dimed.
Mitch McConnell is the richest member of congress, representing the State of Kentucky, sad.
I guess you give all your riches to the less fortunate. Riiight
Pelosi is much richer
According to Wikipedia, in 2018 Greg Gianforte of Montana had $189.3 million. That is pretty unbelievable.
Pelosi is the richest career politician. It's public record. She makes $174,00/yr, but her net worth is OVER $300million(huh? Go figure)
Also, I believe the number is 7/10 top wealthiest career politicians are demonRATS(CORRUPTION?)
A state, I just learned, is still not paying back their public sector retirement fund enough to get it out of debt !!
Many people with full time jobs in the US are still poor.
My understanding is they should stop riming.
@@tzafoxx3188 agreed
Many people with full time jobs in the entire world are still poor, most poor people work more hours than the rich (Worldwide)
Yes,poor in many ways,but if you can survive without that 51 inch t.v. and fancy car,you are still better off than 85% of the rest of world's population so stop whining and living beyond your means?!
Those ppl with full time jobs should raise their skill set then
To be fair about New York, the price of living is astronomically high for how little you get. $3000 doesn't go very far in New York. And if you live in New York City everything is downsized... except the price.
Real estate prices are a major factor in why welfare is so rampant. A $1,000,000 home in a New York city suburb would be a $320,000 home almost anywhere else in the nation. Which is why everyone rents, because to outright buy a home would cost millions. Which is why most everyone decides to move out of the state. The jobs are here and they pay above average but the cost of living outpaces the increased wages by a lot (and the gap is growing). Unless you inherit a fortune, most young New Yorkers choose to move out of state to start a family. There is no upward mobility for the middle class and working poor. The only people who can live comfortably in New York City are the uber rich.
Real working people have the freedom to move are moving. Instead of being priced into welfare, why won't these recipients move out and start new? A little bit more self-esteem maybe? Also, the place you should also look at for reasons of high welfare costs in liberal states like NY and CA is how taxes dollars are spent on these welfare programs. They are crazy and making tax payers mad. A recent report says CA spends $500k per homeless on sheltering and how many actually earn $500k in annual salary?
I lived in NYC all my life and I love it!
@@yolandasong1617 Its not a lack of work ethic that stops New Yorkers from being able to afford the move. Most everyone in New York City works 65 hours a week or more and they still can't afford the move, so that's not the issue. Even with a high budget going into welfare it isn't nearly enough to cover the disparity of the cost of living. So that's not it either. Inflation is the number one issue. Drive that down and you'll see less people having to rely on welfare.
I don't live in California so I can't really comment on that amount or if its actually necessary. I will say this though: California's generous welfare does attract the homeless from other states to move there. So unless you live in California you are indirectly benefitting from California's welfare by having less homeless people living in your own state, sapping your own state's resources. So there's that.
Wow! Cant imagine paying $3000 yr for car insurance but u really dont need
a car in NYC!
Who's faught is that dont live there if you cant afford it.
Welfare was meant to be temporary. But, there are multi-generational cases in places like New York where the grandparents were on welfare, the parents, and then the kids when they grow up. It called being "in the system".
you keep showing the same clip twice you should have a different clip every time
Also in most all Republican run states
South Carolina
Kentucky is decades of generations on food stamps and welfare
And many others
@@MusicLover-ui9sm... and your point is?
The government does not equipped anyone for their future, it should give free state college for every citizen that will give them a fighting chance, and provide low cost housing
@Boulder Pathways *you're. But yes.
I WORKED 37 YEARS FOR MY SOCIAL SECURITY!! See how you feel about IF/WHEN you put something in it!! It's NOT a handout!
I think he was talking about ssi disability. But it stll comes from wages worked a lot big check not much small.
You got that right.
Play money Social Security people work for they money is not no handout please believe that and we still not getting it out of my money right send it over to other country
@@jeangardner8349 Huh?
Same here in the uk I've paid national insurance for 50 years its for health care and pensions next month i hope to get my 1st pension payment I've earnd it
Social security is a deduction on your income that was paid your entire working life that is just dumped in the general fund. It is not your tax dollars.
But since we really don't have a say in weather or not we want to participate in the SS program and they deduct it automatically from your paycheck, I would call it a tax technically. This should also ban all states from taxing your SS benefits because we already paid in to SS our whole careers as a tax, and to be taxed again on the money when we receive it back is nothing more than a tax upon a tax which should not be allowed anywhere in America, regardless of location or income.
@@freedomwillring6749 you don't realize you get double taxed every dollar your earn and then spend a dollar get taxed again.
@@AuntAlnico4 the money we earn is taxed (for most of us) before we ever take physical possession of it, and then again every time we buy anything.
@@freedomwillring6749 hear hear!
@@freedomwillring6749 yep,,,, there is only like 7 states that don't tax SS,,, and there is not a fucking thing you can do about it, But maybe file a 1099 form ?
Don't forget welfare for the rich like huge tax breaks and loopholes and many many write-offs
And government jobs.
Yes government jobs are far too many and have greater insurance benefits and retirement benefits than the average non government employee does
Kids should not have kids. Liberal 60's mentality.
@@AuntAlnico4 Exactly ! The greatest waste of taxpayers' money to "government jobs" = the Armed Forces.
@@robertn2951 you are wrong on that . Our armed forces keep us safe and our freedoms intact now i do agree we shouldn't have so many troops overseas they should be here defending our borders and other national security interests on American soil .
Please add the cost of housing assistance to this list. Please remove social security and Medicare. (Seniors paid for these in taxes during their working years.)
They collect far more than they ever paid in.
But if the amount they put In doesn’t match what they take out, then it’s a handout,
@@SL-pg4dh Social Security was set up as an insurance system. Thus, some people receive more than they put in, while others receive less (if they die early).
Seniors reserve medicaid, Medicare is for low income families.
@@clarkstone-bear7742
No, that's completely erroneous. Medicare is for aged, blind, or disabled individuals. Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California) is for low-income individuals.
I get disability but worked over 19 years at the same place till I had to quit it was hard work but I pushed on until I almost died and couldn't do it anymore
Don't feel badly about that. I think he's referring more to people who WON'T work. Not those who CAN'T.
@@Survivor-mf1nm Exactly.
Take care
If you're going to do a piece on welfare, do it in its entirety, not just on the poor, because cooperate welfare is a thing...and a much bigger atrocity IMO since they're in no need of subsidies or tax cuts that we see no benefit from.
Please define “Corporate Welfare” since corporations EMPLOY people who work and are good for communities and cities. How many people do you employ? Or are you just another troll. Probably the latter.
Economics 101 -- "If you subsidize something, you end up with more of it."
👍🏾 Subsidizing means “paying for it”.
We have lots of money for bombs and to give to foreign countries, but we have a problem helping our own people. We complain of the small amount of money they get. I don't mind paying more in taxes so that my fellow American can eat.
good point!
I feel the same way,feed the people.
The latest Pelosi stimulus money gave $2100 of what was approved to non citizens, and only $600 to citizens, what happens when you vote democrat.
You can thank globalism for that. Embrace nationalism
Yes this "capital" system is failing many people. That's why people are turning to socialism. People are going to go with a system that works. Decent place to live, adequate food, and wow, maybe jobs that pay well enough to actually save money for the future...
News flash: I paid for Social Security and Medicare since I starting earning money in 1969, Nick.
Maybe if the country hadn't exported all its manufacturing jobs, people could work and earn enough to live.
Another fun fact: It's cheaper to house the homeless than try band-aids.
band aids like what?
@@NickJohnson Well, in DC, there's a place called Christ House in Adams Morgan. It's basically an outpatient clinic. It treats ill homeless people, most of whom are ill because they're...(Go ahead, Nick. Guess!)
Oftentimes, a city will put homeless families up in hotels. The tab would easily cover the rent for an apartment.
I give a lot of credit to Catholic Charities here in Washington and the diocese of Arlington, Virginia. They have a range of options to help people get off the streets. One men's shelter in Alexandria lets a guy stay for a year and work. The staff collects his salary and ensures he has sufficient funds for a deposit on an apartment.
When I was in grad school, I wrote a paper on hermits and hoboes. Then (in 1985), if a person were homeless, he was either mentally ill or in active addiction. I'm unsure how the landscape has changed. One change is the working poor, i.e., people with full-time jobs who don't make enough to live and eat.
Is this a great Christian country or what?
Well we were on track to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., but that ain't happening now!
Unfortunately, manufacturing in the US does not pay the manufacturers. It is due to the high cost of labor in the US. Many Americans do not realize that we have been priced out of the market. Chinese steel works make the equivalent of $3 an hour. Then tell me how we can compete with that?
@@johngreen3543 Thats what known as a Big Lie. Hitler used that technique over and over until the German people broke down and went along with his psychopath agenda.
Permanent disabled folks should get all the help they need
Problem is most disability money is faked and they aren't actually disabled. Other disabled people are disabled because they ate too much and had back pain due to the excess weight. While they may technically be disabled, they caused their own disability.
@@jimmym3352 TRUE! Disabilities don't prevent people from working at something. Very few people collecting disability are truly unable to do anything. If you hurt your back or no long have use of your legs, there are desk jobs. The government should fund job training so that disabled people can get jobs they can do. Heck, just the other day, the cashier at the Dollar Tree who checked me out, was a double amputee in a wheel chair. Maybe he didn't earn much, but at least he was trying and earned something to help support himself. I'm sure he could have easily played victim and stayed home doing nothing.
@@jimmym3352 obviously you Don't know of any disabled persons
@@noblegirl1991 No I don't, but I have known people who collected disability from the government proving my point.
Yes, alot of disabled people COULD do something for a certain number of hours a day/week, but would anyone actually hire someone with a disability? That is the problem we have here in Australia. The government refuse to put people with disabilities on Disability welfare because they are capable of doing a few hours work. However these people find themselves on unemployment for decades because it's almost impossible to get hired by someone for the number of hours required with a disability when there are so many able bodied people competing for jobs.
One woman in a wheelchair with cerebral palsey was refused because she once had a part time job at a community center which closed. Not much incentive.
NICK JOHNSON: I really enjoy your videos and truly respect the hard work you do to produce the videos.
At age 70 the SS office actually called me (they back paid me to age 65, with 5 years lump sum payment.).
I was told by the SS office to take my SS and Medicare benefits.
They said it was my money, I paid for it by working and paying into SS for 55 years.
I believe it is not correct for you to include SS and medicare recipients in a list of people taking handouts.
Incidentally, I still work every day at my hotel business. At age 82., no HANDOUTS here my friend.
Thanks for the great videos and happy holidays, Curtis.
Curtis I said I left those out!!
@@NickJohnson lol,,,
'i said I left those out'= verbal,,
in writing,, you say the opposite.
+1 -1 = 0.
What is more credible?
I'm sure you know what is said is less credible than what is in writing.
(Where did you say "I left those out" in your video??
I reviewed the 14:52 minute video TWO times,
+ I turned on "Subtitles" in search for any statement about not including SS and/or Medicare as "handouts",,, I heard nothing verbally & I found nothing in the Subtitles.)
What I CLEARLY SEE is you say in black & white,
is that the 60 million Americans receiving SS and Medicare are taking "HANDOUTS."
Nick, a suggestion for a video,, that reflects on "handouts"
I own a hotel (more truthful stated at this time hotel actually owns me).
today because of the virus evictions are not permitted.
I have room guests that owe me thousands of dollars and the government could fine me $5000
if I do anything to encourage the payment of rent.
So,,,,, the true facts for me,,, I am actually the one giving "HANDOUTS"
When you die , you win !
I've paid a gazillion dollars into social security my whole adult life! I'd BETTER get some of that back when I retire!! It's NOT a handout.
Americans don't pay anything in social security. Only in Europe they pay a lot and thus get a lot in return.
No l hear you!!!
I dunno, maybe shorter amount of time but a little more money. $450 a month barely buys food for a small family
That's what the food stamps are for. The cash is for utilities, household stuff, etc. Remember, many of these folks also have rental assistance.
I knew a guy that got a $500 ebt card benefit a month for his family of 4, it was more than adequate for them, but son't think they ever dined out on that budget.
@@donellmuniz590 I wasn’t aware of that. $450 makes more sense then.
@EL GRECO 777 🙄
@@brookiebrooke928 😊
In my home state most people I know on it are people that work but can’t afford the housing anymore due to inflation so it’s like they’re left with no choice snap or starve
Well, none of my graduate school pals are on it... I guess previous choices do come back. Also, why not moving to another state? Jobs in the service industry are everywhere. It is not logical to say "I cannot make enough money and I did not work hard on my education, but I just want to live in this state and it is every other taxpayer's duty to support me continue living here"...
@@yolandasong1617 what state are we talking lets start there
@@yolandasong1617 so by “I did not work hard on my education...” are you referring to systemic defunding of inner city schools primarily in black and Hispanic communities which never had the proper funding to be stable communities to begin with seeing as how governments stopped caring for them during the 60s when white ppl moved to the suburbs and left the cities for blacks and Hispanics. It’s so weird that “education” always comes into the conversation when better schools directly lead to better employment opportunities but if you’re neighborhoods haven’t had good schools since the 60s, and you don’t have the income to move because you never went to a “good” school to get an education, “service industry” jobs being everywhere doesn’t matter. Do you really think a Hispanic woman from Chicago can move to Montana as a server and “make it”? This is why Trump thinks “a little hard work” actually matters considering his company was handed to him
Exactly Nick
The thing is Nick, since the 1970s people have been underpaid and now have -50% buying power. Welfare is a gov/corporate subsidy for low pay. In Norway, the average hourly rate of pay is nearly €50 per hour.
My parents got welfare benefits briefly for 3 months during the farm crisis in the 80's, while they made a transition from their rural home to a house they were able to get in town. They had alot of farm debt also but were able to recover in about 7 years.
good!
@@NickJohnsonCan you do why America's top ten welfare States are Red State?
You weren’t listening Ryan. Watch this again but listen closely.
@@ryansauders5780 nope, because they are not.
Every single person i know who is on Welfare under the age of 60 is able to work. I work in the substance recovery scene and so many use the system. Its very sad.
i know who whole cities on welfare and food stamps ,and section 8
My senior year of HS was the 2001-2002 school year and I managed to live on $600ish/mo. and food stamps (the actual paper ones). After that, until I became disabled due to a work-related condition, I worked my butt off. People should appreciate their benefits more.
You should do a video on Corporate Welfare.
i should.
Starting with the NFL having tax payers fund stupid 8 time a year use stadiums.
Precisely.
Corporate welfare is the worst. Tax breaks to ship jobs overseas. Corruption, the champion of life.
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umm ..dude I seem to remember paying in to social security to the tune of 250K , it isn't a tax handout-- Quite the other way around, the government 'borrowed' it back from us.
Not how it works. Your money you are paying in isn't your money. You are paying for retired folks receiving checks right now. You aren't entitled to that money. Don't be surprised if it's not there in 20 years. Make no mistake, it is a tax. And taxes are not your money, it's the government's money.
@@jimmym3352nearly there but not close.
If we paying for the current generation of retirees than where did the money they contributed go? On and on until the start of the program.
A generations money is missing than.
What we are covering for is the difference in projected capital growth that was projected and the actual growth that was achieved.
It was assumed a growth rate of 3 to 4% by pension funds was conservative responsible estimation.
Our funds are now covering a sinkhole that became bigger and bigger until it resembled nothing but a ponzi scheme were nearly all you contribute just goes to making up the shortfall of the newly retired.
Than we started seeing pension funds declaring bankruptcy of sorts and people who contributed their whole life and were banking on the payout are waking up to find they got 0 as nest egg on the day they retire.
401k allowing greater control on where and how your money is invested was because instutional imvestment has not always delivered what they thought they could.
Thank you, it's an insurance program we pay into from the time we started working when we were kids!
@@theallseeingeye9388 SS started being deducted from pay in 1937 and started being paid out in 1940. Do you really believe that the first people to collect put away enough in a little over a thousand days?
@@pattygould8240I am sure there was funding of thr SS by your government. This seed capital would have more than be covered and recovered during the boom times between the years of 50 to 80s.
Even if it ran on a ponsi scheme model the number of contributors in 1937 1940 woukd have been much less compared to say 1970 to 80s.
If there wasnt a pile of cash there the corporations wouldnt have pushed for SS to be opened up so that its money could pour into the corporate capital markets.
Just watch the next 10 years where mosy of todays generation are just going to get a profit loss pink slip and find they got no nest eggs. Only a few luvky ones are going to see cash.
The top 10 states that receive the most federal spending compared to taxes they pay in are South Carolina, North Dakota, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Hawaii, Mississippi, New Mexico, Kentucky and West Virginia. If states were people, these are the ones on welfare.
i actually talk about that in a video soon!!!
Yup, politics sucks and we need to eject any and all political identities so we can actually work on solutions to these problems!
Totally agree!!! This is a more poignant statistic!! All red states except for NM!!
@@rudyinthesky4967 blue states get their share of federal money. The government bails out a ton of their businesses and infrastructure.
Yaaaay I'm in the top ten!! That explains everything
I love how straight forward you are. Keep up the great work!
Ok hunter
The new stimulus deal just gave other countrys billions of free money plus horse owners got a tax brake and corporations can write off all there luncheons they have up to 40000 per lunch
The elderly deserve assistance. However I think it's sad that government spends more on assistance than education. Thanx Nick for being informative.
I agree
How about more on give aways to the rich.........
They should have saved when young.
I was actually surprised more states in the south weren’t mentioned, but hey you learn something new each day, thanks Nick:). Also the last part of the video was pretty inspiring.
I'm not surprised. Right-leaning states don't like welfare, and the south tends to be lean right. Ironically, the south is what needs welfare the most.
@@Toastmaster_5000, exactly & they still are brainwashed to keep voting republican! I just dont get how they continue to live in poverty in Mississippi & South Carolina!
@@Toastmaster_5000 hmm I didn’t even think about that .
@@jgrysiak6566 Pandering and empty promises go a long way.
@@Toastmaster_5000 No, the South would not be better off with more welfare. And the rest of us are not going to better off with freshly-printed money handouts when Halfwit-elect shuts down the country for the next four years.
You have to know why people are getting welfare before blaming them. There are some to blame, but the reasons are more complicated. Divorce, medical bill, and so much more. And many people don’t get a second chance then ended up staying in the “system”
It is hard to get out of it unless you have a lot of help.
@@FluffballKitties it's hard to get it here. Even if you need it because you lose your job. We got 2-3 months of food stamps after my parents worked their whole lives .
I remember Cal Worthington Ford. He had car lots in Carson California near where I am from in Long Beach. Just brought back memories, as I sit here in my home in Nice, France. :)
The thing is the wages have not increased, there should be a 20 dollars an hour wage, then you would not see people on food stamps, moreover, get the corporations off the welfare rolls some corporations do not pay taxes!
And then 2/3 would be laid off
And the price of goods will rise.
@@corabellerowland3182 did you say this when jeff bazos makes over 100 billion dollars or when a corporation doesn't pay a dollar in taxes?
@@jackrosario9990 I only replied to your statement of $20.00 an hour. I’m going to stick with my original response (the price of goods will increase). As far as Jeff Bezos goes, He will continue to be rich and replace humans with robots soon. The world is upside down.
@@TT-yu4hh That hasn't happened with companies whom have increased their wages.
When I worked at West Point in NY, I lived at an apartment complex in which I was the only car leaving the parking lot in the mornings to go to work.
I would come home from work, and all the cars were still there....lol.
My across the hall neighbor received Section 8, free utilities, free cable tv, WIC, food assistance, and $500 on a debit card every month.
I had a full time Federal Government job, and this guy made way more than me by staying home.
crazy.
Oof!
@@AngelaMarie-777
I'm beyond red pill....lol.
Black pill.
If you love your job God bless you in Jesus name and that's why you should always love your job but if you don't then get out of the workforce like that neighbor of yours trying to make them go to work or work at that job they are going to be a hindrance to everybody sometimes it's easier to give them a welfare check and get them out of the workforce
Why did the person receive assistance. Facts, not your conjecture. And is the person still alive? Why did you covet what this person had. Next time, make sure you wish for everything that places the person in the situation. You’re a cherry picker.
Before you start a moralistic appraisal of “welfare” recipients, which by this video’s definition includes SSI and SSDI, take a look at long-standing science. The Chronically Mentally ill which historically comprises about 5% of USA and worldwide populations, usually struggle with finding and keeping a job, and compromise (at least) 40% of our homeless or more, will often need these income programs in order to survive. In the past 50 years we have eliminated over 90% of State Hospitals. People with psychotic disorders have been told to find alternatives and communities do not have local equivalent alternatives which is adding to “welfare” and homelessness problems. The general public is quick to judge these folks because they have not studied nor worked with these people. These are human beings with neurological systems that are attacked by illnesses. When you see the problem up close and see the effects of mental illness on their lives, it can give you a very different view of “welfare”. In our society, we believe in individual rights, but also assumed is individual responsibility. The overall treatment by society toward the chronically mentally Ill could be viewed as neglectful or cruel. And when you sit in judgment of people on “welfare” you need to have a direct understanding of the reality because judging people without fully comprehending just adds to the cruelty. Do a video following a mental health case manager or mental retardation CM or Crisis Intervention Counselor and you will have a more accurate and humane opinion on the problem of “welfare”!
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that's a good point!
Sir, that was Beautiful and quite eye opening
"Comprise", not compromise. Spellcheck may have bit you there.
Those unfortunate souls with true chronic mental illness are a small minority of welfare recipients, and it was the Left who insisted on tearing down the state hospitals and turning the mentally ill loose with no means of support. And who in hell still uses the R-word these days? Is this 1967???
Huh. No mention of the NFL or major cooperations that suck up Federal funds left and right. You want to do something worth while? Report of cooperation welfare. Just a cheap shot ant folks who need a safety net.
I died when he put that old school food stamp photo up there 😂😂😂
That's how it used to be
There is system abuse, no doubt, but I am here to tell your Social Security is not a freaking handout, it is our retirement plan. We and our employers pay the money into the fund, and many like me have to still work in order to make ends meet. One more thing, since I have maxed out because I am 73, and still pay into SS, my SS amount will never increase except for that small pittance they may or may not give in a raise each year. Same for Medicare, paid into it since it's inception, and still paying Medicare tax on my paycheck...oh, and Medicare is not free, I pay my monthly insurance premium, which has gone up to $148.50 and is taken directly from my SS check. So, seniors who have and are working all their lives, get no free lunch bucko.
My guy . If ur depending only on SSI ur in trouble . I’m in my 20s. And have a 401k & a Roth & then throw on SSI
Lol 😂 research FDR SSI wasn’t maid as a retirement plan
@@mr.hustleakamike2734 I did not mentions SSI, that is a separate program all together.
@@eilidhaylee9519 I’m talking bout the Entire Program as a whole FDR. Implementation of these welfare programs & yes social security do ur research was a welfare program & he did not inter for it to be ur Retirement plan ! The system was never built for this .
Good job 20 year old investo keep it up .more young folks need to jump on your bandwagon
My Grandparents both came here from the Soviet Union at a very young age in the early 1900's and neither them or anyone from family every got any handouts (and rightfully so!). Learned English and Worked their asses off 14 hrs a day in hot steel factories here in Milwaukee just to pave the way for my family. We call ourselves Americans and continue to work hard.
Are they white? Because yeah they got handouts and we know what kind.
True Americans,the folks that made is country great! Worked hard,saved money and didn't live beyond theirs means!
@@jarenc2048 would you like a little cheese to go with that whine?
There is no more steel industry in US, that ship has sailed to China
@@Futurekid1996 it sailed to more than just China! I've picked up coils at the docks with Japan,Russia,Brazil,India and Taiwan stamped on them! The U.S. auto industry was weaned off of our steel a long time ago and has been using inexpensive foreign material for decades...
Here in California we all remember Cal Worthington and his dog spot
You got balls for doing this video, respect.
It’s interesting that these videos gives us a taste of why a living wage is needed to end these programs. But you should also do a video on the corporate welfare that our government gives to corporations annually. I’ll wait for that one
Thanks for the amazing animal footage- was an extreme pleasure to see
This is were they want us, dependant on them.
That is exactly what they want. Everyone to be dependent on the government. It's looking like communism more and more everyday
Back in the "good old days" farmers whose crops failed and others who lost their ability to provide for themselves died. There was no Medicaid because there was no modern medicine. Women commonly died in childbirth. Children regularly died young. Men were killed and crippled in the Civil War and farm and industrial accidents, leaving behind destitute widows and orphans. The suicide, alcoholism and drug addiction rates in the late 1800's were terrible, but they were written off as tough luck and "moral failings" and downplayed by the people who want to sell you nostalgia for an innocent America that never existed.
So if a billionaire only pay 750 Dollar in taxes, he's a smart businessman.?
And somebody on welfare earning some money on the side is criminal.???
Since my household is the recipient of a massive $35 per month stamp haul I'm going to have to wait until taxes but I am so glad to know that your music is available on iTunes. It's really damn soothing
Hey Brian
@@NickJohnson sup dude!
You are a good person. Kind hearted and respectful of others
Less fortunate! I commend you!
I try faith ❤️
I think a lot of this can be solved with education on how to budget in high school. Sometimes It’s not because we don’t have enough Money, it’s because we mismanage it. It took me 30 years to get a healthy view of money and get ahold of my finances.
You are right on priorities
It has everything to do with a living wage and not how to spend the few dollars .
I found your videos by accident but now you're my fav channel! Really nice wholesome and educational.
haha not really wholesome but ok
You should do a special on top Zombie companies by state. So many companies would not exist without corporate welfare.
Earmarks that were secret.
Dont forget Puerto Rico, I live here and I've had people judge me like crazy but then I see that little purple card. Ay dios mio.
Thank you for educating me. But the struggle is real for people who keep it real. Your words of encouragement and support are very welcome. Thank you over and over.
Ok Karen ❤️❤️
Thank you. You did a great job I love your videos keep up the good work
Here in Connecticut, I used to drive by a large housing project where a lot of the Island People live, and in the winter no cars would move, the snow would still be there at night. All welfare all the time. Many of those people were third and forth generation residents. Silly me driving to work at a job every day.
Island like? West Indian? Caribbean?
Vport Usually from Jamaica yes? Jamaicans usually work like crazy and seldom use social services in my experience. Puerto Rican’s seem to think they shouldn’t have to work.
@@jonlouis2582 This is why I asked who? Caribbean work day and nights for theirs... American believe in welfare, race hasn’t nothing to do with it ijs.
@@LadyLeoASMR Exactly!! They usually work 2 and three jobs. Most of the people seen in those housing projects are black americans! The second behind them are spanish usually PR in the inner city. Whites use the welfare system too but they use it more for food stamps and medical!!! So yes, everyone is getting how they can but in the end they are getting assistance. I'm personally speaking on Connecticut.
@jon louis I don't know where in CT your talking about about but mostly all the Jamacians in CT work! Those are black americans not West Indians..
Hey mate, Australia is the No. One welfare country in the world, we can see the doctor, go hospital for free...
The government housing great, my welfare payment is - $400 a week = $1, 600 a month... Thanks for the upload, interesting info, thanks 🇺🇸😊🎉🇦🇺
But you cannot own a gun in your country where Vermont you can without a license
@@sitdowndogbreath Why do you want to own a gun? You lookin' to kill people with it? Australia is peaceful & everyone helps each other & we are extremely friendly people, God bless Australia, Cheers :)
@@sitdowndogbreath Increase in living standard > owning a gun
And I'm a gun owner, plus if no one is living in desperation much less likely to need to use a gun. come on man use your head, dont be like BUT MY GUNS!!!!!!
@@zacharyhebert6423 - Right on buster, you tell him, Cheers 😊🇦🇺🎰🇺🇸✌️
@@DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE dangerous freedom > peaceful slavery
Thanks Nick! And that was so sweet of you to put that nice message in the video 😍🥰! Btw I was hoping to hear your good singing! 😃
Next time!
Thanks Nick for another great video!!
Ok Paul
@@NickJohnson I would like to move to Texas so that can be on welfare.
FDR made it where all workers had to put in to SS. He also took America off the gold standard on June 5, 1933. Just a Democrat helping!
I've never seeked for food stamps. If I lose a job, I immediately go to a temp agency. They find me work within days. However I do understand the struggle. I'm grateful I live in Salt Lake City where we have plenty of jobs and a strong economy. Thank you for sharing this.
Great tip!
What an ending (including OMD-sounding song)! A big topic and you're the only one willing to address it, Nick, so kudos to you. I knew New York State was high in Medicaid funding where, as u briefly showed, it's not just for elderly medical costs. I like the way you suggested people move up to Vermont from Mississippi :) It actually is or at least was a thing for people to move up from Illinois to Wisconsin to get more bennies. Surprised to see all those northern states in the Top 10 but I guess an even bigger surprise is how California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Michigan, states with a lot of people with a lot of problems, are back somewhere in the middle of the pack. Worth another watch - actually I just did. One thing we can thank Bill Clinton for was welfare reform. I just wish modern-day presidents pre-Trump had spent more time doing something about not letting such a large % of our manufacturing jobs drift away overseas - kind of tough making ends meet working for Walmart or retail/food service in general. Not everybody can work in high tech/medical/pharma. Keep it up, man!
politicians will never figure it out bill!
Needs to do a video on what states/cities were gutted by “free trade” deals like NAFTA, TPP, and the like. That might be interesting also.
Thank you for keeping it real Nick! Good video man
Always Mike!
Cost of Living increases have outpaced pay and if minimum wage was tied to Cost of Living it would be around 20 bucks an hour.
maybe so, but minimum wage jobs are generally the ones that take the fewest skills. I'm not paying $20/hr to someone who can't read a tape measure, much less blueprints, and who's only ability is picking up trash from around the jobsite. Add to that the current generation's notion that they are owed something simply because they exist; that showing up on time, doing what they're told to do when they are told to do it, and not looking at their cellphones 50x a day are infringements on their rights... the cost of a $15/hr employee, depending on the state the business is in, can be as much as $28/hr... Sorry, but I wouldn't spend $33/hr on an unskilled, snarky, entitled child. They can go get a government job.
Good info. Love the "Cal" clips at the end. The man could market anything!
Yep!
With COVID, millions cannot climb out of the hole, no matter how hard they try.
You can solve pretty much any problem with the right plan and persistence. The problem is a lot of people have lived their lives flying by the seat of their pants and can't get out of non sustainable life choices. You got to be the hero in your own movie called your life.
Matt Michaels The term for this is “toxic positivity.” It is the typical response of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”.Not every person in bad financial circumstances is a druggie or irresponsible. Some have chronic illnesses and are being bankrupted by overpriced medications and are unable to work more due to their conditions. Others were abandoned by a spouse and are working two jobs to support their kids. But believing everything is their fault and having a pat answer relieves you of any expectation of empathy, doesn’t it? Most of the country’s population is one paycheck away from financial disaster. There is no way that is not by design. Here is an experiment for you-why don’t you go live for six months at the wage scale you look down upon and see how easy it is for you to extricate yourself from the situation.
Well the toxic positivity might not help everyone but if it helps one person and keeps them from throwing in the towel too soon that's all I can do which is a lot.
Covid 19 is just a new form of flu that's so mild that children age 19 and under rarely fall ill from it plus the survival rate for adults to age 75 is over 99% and those older 94.5%. More people died during the 2019-2020 Cold & Flu Season from the usual colds, flues and pneumonia than from this new virus. It appears that the Democrats want to increase the number of people dependent upon government aid to ensure they keep being re-elected. The GOP has been gaining more support from minority voters since 2008 due to their local policies that encouraged job creation that resulted in many low-income counties preferring Trump over Biden due to an increase in jobs over the past four years. The pig Democrats used Covid 19 to shut down the economy to discredit Trump and manipulate election results thru mail-in ballots. Now we'll get to see how fast the entire economy will crater as Biden prints more $$$ to keep the peasants happy.
I work for a welfare department in a county in California... these facts hit home
san bernardino?
I work at one in Pennsylvania.
When people find out what I do... let's just say that what they don't know could crash Wikipedia.
How easily to forget:
"But for the Grace of God, where go I"
All the Money Wasted on paying OVER-Worked, Burned-Out Bureaucrats could be so MUCH Better Spent on PROVIDING BASIC INCOME -- that could Much More EFFICIENTLY GO BACK INTO BUILDING LOCAL ECONOMIES!!! (Which was SUPPOSED to be the Original GOAL of "welfare"... But instead CURRENT System Creates BROKEN People who are mistreated by Burnout Bureaucrats!!
@@NickJohnson what’s crazy is that just on the other side of the 10 freeway from
San Bernardino is Loma Linda, one of only 5 blue zones on the planet!
@grafvonstauffenburg Capitalism requires low wages. Even if you stopped all immigration companies would go elsewhere and or replace you with machines. Just like they do now. Come on folks. It's not hard.
Hey, Nick! Hope you're having a great day!
YOU TOO HEATHER
Glad you hit Kentucky right up front. I retired here and am aghast at the scammers and the lack of enforcement. Fraud appears rampant and is second only to drug production.
You forgot the biggest welfare state - our military.
How much money is spent on business tax subsidies, bank and business bailouts in 2008/2009? How much is spent on US military budget? All far less than helping people.
Cal Worthington got his start on a show called Help thy Neighbor’ in 1962
I DIDNT KNOW THAT :)
I lived in Sacramento, CA growing up, and Cal was a mainstay celebrity with his car dealership. "If You want a new car, Go See Cal!"
@@WhoBeSilly I grew up in SoCal. My Mom bought a gold white vinyl top 1968 mustang from his Worthington Ford dealership in Huntington Beach. 😂
Nick Fam & Mappy Fam have a great weekend!!!
YOUTOO
WOW! Your country provides A LOT for its citizens!
Here in California most everyone on welfare are also working under the table jobs like gardeners and house keepers. Triple dipping!
You have to !!
In Texas, you have to be employed to get food stamps in most cases.
I think SNAP for Meth sounds more correct
Sounds like meth is what YOU do.
Cal Worthington and his dog Spot Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal!
Loved him
The Republican states have just as many people on welfare so they just cut how much they pay out to stay higher on the list. Welfare should be temporary however it requires given people the opportunities and tools to get off welfare not just cut their benefits and call them lazy.
Welfare doesn't give the necessary monies to get re-trained, and when you are pointed in the direction of where to get funds, it is a nightmare to qualify, more time spent trying to get funding approved than learning the damn skill!!
It should give them oppurtunities unfortunately it does not
You tell Mrs. Mappy!! Most of us are one bad week away from applying for help!
I did she doesn't care!
Thanks for the Cal Worthington memories. He was a WWII pilot.
I know!
Disability is the new welfare.
I understand there are disabilities that are not readily visible, but that being said, so many of these people who are getting welfare based on a supposed disability, are at times, not all that disabled, or not at all , it’s disgusting
@@Shannonbarnesdr1 And you know that how?
@@jarenc2048 because I worked in the system for almost 20 years, and while a lot of people genuinely need the help, there are some who play the damn system
One cannot rely on the government for everything. The government helps, however is no substitute for strong families and strong communities.
'strong families and strong communities'...if those two aren't reliable, reliance is inevitable.
High cost of living and availability of mostly low wage jobs, this is a common problem I most areas. Public assistance programs aren’t even a save all in fact most people receiving this type of assistance are drowning or barely keeping their head above water. Get corporate out of government and actually govern for the good of the people who voted them in. The middle class that once was is no longer, it is either the doing well or not classes.
you should run for office
Nick Johnson thanks, I wouldn’t make it too far cause wouldn’t go for all the bs that goes on and kissing up to do just to get anything accomplished
That ending commercial was Cal Worthington and his dog spot. But I never saw a dog, there were different killer wild animals. Good advertising. Brave man. LOL. Thanks Nick this was cool.
Most of the elderly on Social Security have worked and paid into the system what is not addressed here is the BILLIONS spent every year on immigrants including those who come here and get social security when they are not citizens of this country and have paid 0 into the system nor does it address the fact that immigrants get 3 to 4 times the amount U.S citizens get on the "free" programs they are put on many elderly on S.S (American) do not get any extra help and do a daily struggle to pay for medical and prescription versus food.
This is the best comment ive read on this thread. This blows my mind how we as americans allow this to continue.
You or spouse/parent need to have paid into SS to collect. . Look it up. You may be confusing this with SSI., which you may also have to look up.
Non citisens can't get ANY public benefits.get your facts straight.
I came to California from Texas in 2003 with 700 dollars in my pocket and no family/friends or social assistance, I made it out here but I am not an icon.
Who is the person at the end of the video?
he's a former car salesman!
I hope Mr. Johnson does a video on the Top-10 corporate recipients of welfare like Big Oil, Big Ag and the Defense Industry. And BTW, corporations like Walmart, Dollar General and McDonald's use SNAP as a wage subsidy to keep wages low and profits high.
I was thinking about it. I started it already John.
Short term is ok. Otherwise no freeloaders.
Like Jeff bezos or Trump who don't pay taxes?
That’s a disgusting thing to say. As if someone would prefer poverty over having a large income. Smh you people.
@@jarenc2048 Get out and get it then. Its not disgusting to tell truth... Freeloaders are those that stay on the system their whole lives. Unless, handicapped, get out and work...
@@michaelpaul5682 so what about the people who do work and still don’t make enough? Amazon employed how many people this year and none of them made more than $20/hr in the richest economy on the planet at arguably the fastest growing company... yeah ok buddy. Tell your politicians to increase hourly wages to meet the demand of living expenses in this country. People in 2020 shouldn’t be working 2 jobs just to pay rent. Social services were created to help people out.
@@antoniobrooks1113 I only mean lifers..If extra is needed for workers keep on getting it...
Social security isn’t a welfare program
I lived in El Paso when was a kid in the 70s and remember those car commercials. Should've played the song for everyone to hear. Lol
My Dads Apartments .. this is what these animals did to them .. as a Child I was exposed to this Human ( used loosely ) Nightmare ..Broken Windows - Broken Stairs Hand Railings .. Broken Door Knobs - Feces -Roaches - 10 bags of Rotting Garbage in a Kitchen or all over - Broken Sinks - Broken Cabinets - kicked in walls - Broken locks and Doors - Whiskey Bottles - Broken Glass - Rats -Mice .. its not the buildings its the People that live in them .. I will never own Rental property .. Never .. to many times my stomach has been turned from childhood to Adult .. and the look of Remorse my Dads Face I will never forget . We could of brought in a Army to fix them .. but they would still be ruined a month later .. l Yes I have been to the Ghetto .. Lost - Angry - People with Zero Hope .. No Respect for Themselves or You .. The Buildings are gone now .. but not the Memories .. and the hate on these peoples faces !
A Cal Worthington blast from the past!
Go see Cal! ☺️
It shocks me when I see your face because I'm always expecting 1990s Pauly Shore.
Cool 😎 Thank you for sharing!
Disability is NOT a government program. Every worker who brings home a paycheck pays for their OWN disability insurance out of EVERY paycheck. This is so that they will have income in case they get chronically ill or injured. They pay for it THEMSELVES, so stop misleading people by falsely claiming that it is in the same category as "government benefits". 💁 Thank you. The More You Know...
OK, government only administrates it.
Ok. You got most people living in a city. The only jobs are fast food. It be hard to grow gardens. What do you want them to do?
Maybe you could trash on corporations that took jobs to china and india for profit?
Once on the system what job do get to get off. How many can work as fast food.
Very interesting....I live in New York State and know exactly what you mean about abusing the system -- sorry to say but true.
How many Trillions are the corporations getting?????
Good Afternoon, Nick Johnson.
HI KAYLA :)
Nick, besides being an awesome TH-cam’r, do you have another career? I really enjoy how intelligently you speak. You seem so well rounded and diverse. Hope your holidays are filled with lots of joy, laughs and hope for a blessed new year.
🕎 🎄 ☮️ 🕯💜
Valerie I have many things I do including helping people sing and with their websites :)
@@NickJohnson I need to go listen to your music then!!!
"Steaks for their dogs",Nick,you are priceless!!!😆