[steelhead_trout]

“Welfare Can Make More Sense than Work”

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Well, assuming Cato’s calculations are correct (alliteration alert!), considering that real wages *adjusted for for inflation* haven’t gone up all that much for most people for 1973, that’s not a big surprise. One thing Cato leaves out, and it’s a BIG thing, is that the old AFDC system of sucking the welfare teat for life has been long gone, since 1996 in fact. Now it’s TANF, and you get a 5 year lifetime limit. So it’s a much shorter ride on the gravy train now than it was back in the day.

[Bogey78O]

Obama waived a lot of the requirements from the reforms from 1996.

[lepton]

That’s just one of many programs...and it still gives them five years. That’s long enough to get a full bachelors degree and a year of experience under ones belt. ...or a couple of career changes.

[Mase]

considering that real wages *adjusted for for inflation* haven’t gone up all that much for most people for 1973

This is unmitigated crap. It was crap when the left first made the claim and it is still crap today. All anyone has to do - who was over 12 in 1973 - is look around them to know that we are a lot better off today than we were back in '73.