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.