Posted on 02/15/2009 7:16:58 PM PST by BAW
The economic stimulus package dramatically ramps up spending for a broad array of social programs for needy Americans in a way not seen since the launch of the Great Society programs.
"We are seeing a paradigm shift," said Paul L. Posner, a former Government Accountability Office official who teaches at George Mason University.
The bill includes billions in new money for food stamps, expanded child care and services for the homeless. It funds long-sought increases in education funding for low-income and special education students, new refundable tax credits for low-income workers, stepped-up job training, expanded health-care coverage, and an increase of $100 a month in unemployment insurance.
All of the new spending is temporary, with most of it slated to end after two years. And given the nation's bleak budgetary outlook, even many supporters of the programs say there will be no option but to roll back the increases once the immediate economic crisis passes.
At the same time, many of the new initiatives dovetail with the policy goals of President Obama and congressional Democrats, who have talked about the need to rebalance the nation's economy so more benefits flow to middle- and low-income Americans, whose incomes have stagnated. Some analysts think the increases will prove politically difficult to pare back once the initial round of funding expires, and they see the stimulus package as part economic shock treatment, part social policy transformation.
All the final numbers related to social spending have yet to be compiled from the 1,100-page bill, but analysts say this much is clear: The measure promises unprecedented increases in support for social programs, many of which have not seen significant funding boosts for decades. And the outlays promise to expand the role of the federal government in the nation's economy . . .
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"What you have here is a pretty cynical attempt to take their agenda and wrap it up in a bow of stimulus and get it out the door before anybody knows what's going on," said Robert E. Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation who has been called the "intellectual godfather" of welfare reform. "You are creating new entitlements that are not likely to go away."
Oh, good, because President Bush spent NOTHING on social programs...
More Democrat voters!
Wheeeee!
“... The bill includes billions in new money for food stamps, expanded child care and services for the homeless. It funds long-sought increases in education funding for low-income and special education students, new refundable tax credits for low-income workers, stepped-up job training, expanded health-care coverage, and an increase......”
Now, let’s see some math measuring the “success” of these programs. (Liberals, these measures are called “metrics. Those who can actually use math normally set some numbers up BEFORE the controls are instituted in order to judge the success/failure of the control.) Of course, libs set the numbers up AFTER the project so that it can always be judged a success.
OK, everyone who believes this, please ping me.
A few more sets of octuplets and it will all be gone!
If you want more of something....subsidize it!
What kind of idiot writes this crap? We spend more on welfare every single year no matter who is in charge, sadly.
It amounts to about $16,000 per homeless person.
Welfare is never temporary and it creates the Katrina culture.
How about the paying old people to volunteer part? Since when do people get PAID to volunteer?
Well, OK. My problems are solved. I’m close to being out of venison chops in the freezer, and everything has gone up in price over the last few months. Milk, eggs, vegatables, everything.
Now that Barack has pushed through his stimulus package I guess my worries are over. I’ll just get food stamps and a welfare check to go along with my small annuity and my S.S. check. I should also be given a new car because my old Subaru has close to 200,000 miles on it.
Come to think of it I could use some additions to my wardrobe. I’m not greedy so a couple of suits, a sport jacket or two and let’s say, uummmnnn uh a half dozen pairs of slacks. After all, I can’t drive around in a new car without some new threads to wear. (I had better check on the size of that welfare check. A new car and new clothing requires plenty of walking around money.)
Can anybody tell me what agency I should contact to get the ball rolling here? Oh. I just heard that they haven’t received their start up money yet. What the heck is taking them so long? I’m an old man. I don’t have any time to waste.
I just got word, Barack, his wife and those adorable moppets of theirs are driving over to your house with bags of cash. You should be fine unless he gets bored on the way and needs another “get away” from the White House.
I wonder how the person who’s supposed to be next in line for aid would feel about that woman at the Obama town meeting, who asked for not much, just a house and a car.
A good example is the Earned Income Tax Credit:
Proposed by Richard Nixon, signed into law by Gerald Ford and increased under every administration since, without exception.
” said Robert E. Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation who has been called the “intellectual godfather” of welfare reform. “You are creating new entitlements that are not likely to go away.””
Rector is spectacular. His analysis tore the cost of the McCain/Kennedy/Bush shamnesty bill to pieces.
Like I keep telling people, it is just reparations under another name.
“The Mother of All Social Programs.”
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Expanding social welfare programs will deliver very little money directly to the actual recipients or clients. The greater part will be eaten up in overhead, salaries for the bureaucrats, and profits for the vendors and consultants such programs usually have. This is more spending of taxes and creation of more government debts that we and our next generation will have to repay. Growing government will starve the populace in the long run.
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