[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] im sorry. If i can ask you all to please stand. Its customary to give the oath before this committee. If you please raise your right hand. View from the testimony youre about to give before the committee will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . Let the record reflect that the witnesses all witnesses on the second panel answered in the affirmative. Each witness will begin five minutes for an Opening Statement and of course in a written statement they would like to submit for the record will be admitted without objection. Our first witness is sybrina fulton. Ms. Fulton is the mother of Trayvon Martin. Her son was shot and killed at the age of 17 on the night of february 26, 2012 and sanford florida. Sybrina and trayvons father tracy have cofounded the Trayvon Martin foundation to create awareness of how Violent Crime impacts the families of victims and provide support and advocacy for those victims.
People take advantage of the somebodyat giving money to do things is incentivizing them to do nothing. Well, you know, i think that is a lot of the debate over welfare reform in 1996, that a lot of people felt like that, that we should not incentivize people to stay home and not work areas that i think there are a lot of misconceptions about that. As it turned out with welfare reform, a lot of people getting will fair back in the 1990s were working. Know, the Welfare Benefits in the 1990s, you could get maybe 400 a month for a family of three. No one can live on that. It was a fiction that 400 a month could keep you home. That money is even less today. I do not know anyone who had the opportunity to take a job versus get food stamps and would take the food stamps. It is just not enough money. Obviously you can make more working and have a better life. Its a pretty easy ovulation. Im sure there are people out there who may be working the system. A pretty easy calculation. I think they a
Marcus Richard Ferguson argue that a political system ought uphold individual rights encourage voluntary exchange and Civil Society to flourish. He couldnt tell im not an american but ive always admired the United States in its history. Its a nation founded an enlightenment values and committed individual rights and the rule of law. The founding of america was unique event in Human History and best described by a question that the second president john adams asked. He asked how few of the human race have ever had an opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children. The United States we live in today is not the result of mere chance, but a conscious choice on behalf of the founders to create a new order of the ages. Unlike feudal europe built on centuries of customs and hierarchy america was founded upon principles. Principles found the documents like the declaration of independence but being the first of its kind meant that americans had no blueprint or
Marcus Richard Ferguson argue that a political system ought uphold individual rights encourage voluntary exchange and Civil Society to flourish. He couldnt tell im not an american but ive always admired the United States in its history. Its a nation founded an enlightenment values and committed individual rights and the rule of law. The founding of america was unique event in Human History and best described by a question that the second president john adams asked. He asked how few of the human race have ever had an opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children. The United States we live in today is not the result of mere chance, but a conscious choice on behalf of the founders to create a new order of the ages. Unlike feudal europe built on centuries of customs and hierarchy america was founded upon principles. Principles found the documents like the declaration of independence but being the first of its kind meant that americans had no blueprint or
Marcus Richard Ferguson argue that a political system ought uphold individual rights encourage voluntary exchange and Civil Society to flourish. He couldnt tell im not an american but ive always admired the United States in its history. Its a nation founded an enlightenment values and committed individual rights and the rule of law. The founding of america was unique event in Human History and best described by a question that the second president john adams asked. He asked how few of the human race have ever had an opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children. The United States we live in today is not the result of mere chance, but a conscious choice on behalf of the founders to create a new order of the ages. Unlike feudal europe built on centuries of customs and hierarchy america was founded upon principles. Principles found the documents like the declaration of independence but being the first of its kind meant that americans had no blueprint or