NEW: Group Says Rhode Island is Becoming a ‘Laboratory for Accelerated Dependency Culture’
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Rhode Island is leading the nation in the advancement of a larger entitlement culture thanks to its expansion of social services through its health benefits exchange, according to the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity.
When collecting detailed personal financial and household information from individuals seeking health insurance support, the state intends to be the first to utilize a unified infrastructure to proactively introduce participants to other state programs they may be eligible for, such as food stamps, cash payments, and housing assistance.
In stating that one-stop shopping is a hidden element of their health benefits portal scheme, "these un-elected state officials are actually creating a kind of dependency portal," according to Mike Stenhouse, CEO for the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity. "This is an extreme case of misguided public policy. The expansion of government and special interest control over our personal healthcare decisions, along with the culture of dependency being freely advocated by this administration, should be viewed as an assault on our deeply held American value of self-reliance," added Stenhouse.
Instead of growing dependency by herding people into government services, the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity advocates the proper role of government should be to encourage independence and self-determination by creating an economic environment that fosters the growth of opportunity.
"It's obvious that this hidden element is part of larger national agenda to create an expressway to dependency for more people ... it's obscene," stated Stenhouse. At the press conference, state officials openly admitted that the federal government is pushing this approach.
The RI Center for Freedom and Prosperity has obtained documents published by federal agencies and other national institutions that directly urge states to adopt one-stop-shopping of government services via a concept referred to as "express lane eligibility". Further, a recent federal directive that guts the work requirement for welfare, and an agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Mexico that promotes food stamp availability to its nationals, both appear to be part of a coordinated dependency agenda.
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Jonathan Flynn
10:18pm on Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Mike, this program helps poor people. It doesn't make them poor. Republican economic policies and globalization has done that. Please go coach a baseball team.. You'd be great at that and we would all still like you.
Jonathan Flynn
10:20pm on Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Actually, the most widely held American value is fairness, not self reliance.
paul zecchino
10:20pm on Wednesday, August 08, 2012
It was becoming obvious twenty years ago that Rhode Island, in manner similar to other areas, was being used as a lab in which leftist rats and other liberals conducted their endless experiments in social engineering.
No surprises here. Whether it was rockefelon republicommie proxy, Senator Aldrich, who snuck off to Jekyll Island to shove the Federal Reserve Act down our throats, or various and sundry eco-scammers who chased out going business on phony grounds of environmental peril, Rhode Island has sadly been misused by leftist rats.
Their first and last victims, as always, are the many fine decent citizens who deserve far better.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasovietskiya Ortova, Florida
08 August, 2012
Dave Barry
8:41am on Thursday, August 09, 2012
Johnathan, I hope you are wrong. The country was founded on rugged individualism. It was founded by violently throwing off the yoke of tyranny. You forget your history. In any event, we may now need to fail since we are at the tipping point. The good Americans will pick up the pieces and make it well again. Also Johnathan...every 5 year old knows that life is not fair.
Russ C
10:42am on Thursday, August 09, 2012
Yes, Mr. Stenhouse! Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!
Wuggly Ump
7:08pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012
@ Jonathan Fairness? What's fair about being forced to give up my compensation earned through my labor to to Government so they can give it to someone else?