Obama warned over ‘welfare spendathon’ - Times Online: "RONALD REAGAN started it, Bill Clinton finished it and last week Barack Obama was accused of engineering its destruction. One of the few undisputed triumphs of American government of the past 20 years – the sweeping welfare reform programme that sent millions of dole claimants back to work – has been plunged into jeopardy by billions of dollars in state handouts included in the president’s controversial economic stimulus package."
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Today's newspapers had the first semi-detailed analyses of what is in the so-called stimulus package. Some parts of it look good to me, such as sending money to states for highway construction, and to to school districts, and...and...well, there must have been something else. But I was horrified to read that the Democrats are determined to get more people back on the dole. This reinforces the Republican claim that Democrats try to create welfare dependency to buy votes, using money from the middle class.
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"This reinforces the Republican claim that Democrats try to create welfare dependency to buy votes, using money from the middle class."
Problem with that theory is welfare recipients don't tend to vote.
Oh, yes, they vote. In Chicago the Democratic machine sends people into the housing projects and the worst neighborhoods and takes them to the polls. The same thing goes on in many other cities. And why shouldn't they vote? They depend on government for their livelihood.
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