"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have"
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Monday, February 16, 2009

A New Era ... of Dependency

On Tuesday BO will turn back time on a bipartisan effort to reform welfare and usher in a new age of dependency. Read more here


Robert Rector, a prominent welfare researcher who was one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill, warned last week that Obama’s stimulus plan was a “welfare spendathon” that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history.

Douglas Besharov, author of a big study on welfare reform, said the stimulus bill passed by Congress and the Senate in separate votes on Friday would “unravel” most of the 1996 reforms that led to a 65% reduction in welfare caseloads and prompted the British and several other governments to consider similar measures.
the more Americans sign on to the dole, the more state budgets will benefit from US Treasury payouts.  “They have completely overturned the fiscal and policy foundations of welfare reform,” Rector complained
This will make the state and counties' budget problems go away with increased Federal Medicaid reimbursements also known as, FMAP.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So?

Are you going to begrudge us a comfortable living just because we choose not to work or pay taxes? Where's your patriotism?

At last, we have a government FOR the people.

Anonymous said...

So?

Are you going to begrudge us a comfortable living just because we choose not to work or pay taxes? Where's your patriotism?

At last, we have a government FOR the people.

Anonymous said...

That 9:35 guy is brilliant, simply brilliant.

I like him.

A government for the people. I get a tingle down my leg when I think about it.

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