Maggie's Farm

It's time for tough love. There are over 2400 different federal programs to "help the poor". Ironically a young mother of two can be receiving in excess of $36000 in welfare a year from the many different welfare programs but be counted as having zero income to make the poverty statistics look even worse then they are. Lets replace all federal programs with one program to be run by the states: Everyone seeking welfare would be offerred a minimum wage job working 40 hours a week. No food stamps, no section 8, no WIC, no Medicaid, just the same options available to everyone else, i.e. work. If you want more then learn a skill or work two jobs. And of course fire all the federal employees managing these programs and eliminate the 2400 departments in the federal government. Estimated savings; $1.2 trillion a year.