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Alternatives to our current welfare programs, presented by a teacher in a post on X. What do you think?

@BskiMike22802

I need to get something off my chest because I’ve been stewing on this for MONTHS and I can’t stay quiet anymore.

I teach in a high-need district. Every single one of my students qualifies for free lunch. I watch these kids every day, and let me tell you something that’s going to make the bleeding hearts uncomfortable: these aren’t bad kids. These aren’t lazy families. They’re TRAPPED. Trapped in a system that was never designed to let them out.

You want to know the dirty secret nobody in Washington will say out loud? The average welfare recipient stays in the system for EIGHT YEARS. Eight years of checks. Eight years of food stamps. Eight years of housing assistance. And after all that time and all that money, you know what the success rate is?

Twenty-five percent.

ONE IN FOUR actually escapes poverty. And of those lucky few who make it out? Forty percent end up right back in the system within a few years.

We’re spending $160,000 per person over their welfare lifetime to achieve a 25% success rate. If I ran my classroom like that, I’d be FIRED. If a business operated like that, they’d be BANKRUPT. But somehow this is “compassion” and anyone who questions it is a heartless monster who wants children to starve.

Give me a break.

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