Posted on 09/16/2009 6:44:28 AM PDT by angkor
The end of welfare reform as we knew it.
By Stephen Spruiell
When Barack Obama said he wanted to “spread the wealth around,” he meant it. A new study from Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation estimates that Obama’s policies would spend $10.3 trillion on welfare programs over the next decade.
Obama started increasing welfare spending immediately after assuming office. The stimulus bill included $220 billion in new means-tested spending, including a little-noticed provision that repealed one of the key welfare reforms of the Clinton era. The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act capped welfare dollars to states, ending the perverse system that rewarded states for adding cases to their welfare rolls. The 2009 stimulus bill lifted the caps. Once again, states that add to their rolls qualify for more cash.
President Clinton said his legislation would “end welfare as we know it.” If Rector’s estimates are correct, Obama will spend twice as much on welfare as Clinton did. He is off to an incredible start. His $88.2 billion increase in welfare spending in 2009 is twice as large as any other increase in history. By the end of next year, he will have increased welfare spending by $263 billion, which is two and a half times greater than any previous increase.
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"We're gonna be having meetings, all across the country, with community organizations, so that you have input into the agenda of the next Presidency of the United States of America." - Obama to ACORN meeting, Dec 2007
How sad is it that Bill Clinton was the last president who was somewhat fiscally conservative.
And also had a Congress that was somewhat fiscally conservative.
Crime and welfare are closely correlated. Watch - as the welfare numbers go up, crime will go up with it....
>>> How sad is it that Bill Clinton was the last president who was somewhat fiscally conservative. <<<<
I am sorry to report that the Newt Gingrich House kicked his butt into line, and that Clinton knuckled under to fiscal responsibility because that’s what the Congress forced him to do.
The Bent one was held in line when we had Republicans now we have something much less in many cases.
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