No, America is in urgent need of politician reform.
We had Welfare reform — bi-partisan Welfare reform enacted by the 1990s Republican Congress and supported by Bill Clinton, and continued by George Bush. Obama undid a lot of it with a stroke of his pen with he executive orders and expansion of Food Stamps to the middle class and, of course, Obamacare.
Welfare doesn’t need reforming it needs to end.
The net result of the billions the federal government has unconstitutionally spent on anti-poverty programs like LBJ’s “Great Society” has only created more poverty. No matter. Since when did a failed government program ever stop the government from expanding the program and enlarging the bureaucracy?
There’s only one proven Anti-Poverty Program that ACTUALLY WORKS: THE VOLUNTARY COOPERATION OF THE MARKET ECONOMY FREE FROM GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE.
Under the free market economy, more are made wealthy, fewer are poor or below the poverty line with a steady stream moving up from the lower class to the middle class which is strong and from which many continue to move into the upper class, and government has nothing to say about it and doesn’t impede the upward mobility of the people.
The free market economy: THAT’S the welfare reform we need.
Ya think?
Too bad this won’t happen until after CW-II.
Anymore, anything with “reform” attached to it spells trouble.
The problem with “poverty” is what it is compared to. In America, compared to Liberia; there is pretty much no poverty here.
“Poverty” in America will ALWAYS exist as some politician will always latch on to the lower 20% earners as impoverished and blame “the rich” even if said 20% have 50 inch flat screens in their living room, furniture and a roof over their heads. It matters not what anyone earns, in America there will ALWAYS be those that earn less than others and their will always be politicians telling them they are poor and promising to get that stash for them.
As someone up thread said, we have a politician problem.
“Welfare reform” =>
no gov’t charity. Period.
Let the churches do it.
The biggest alteration I would make to the various welfare programs is that anyone applying for welfare should submit to sterilization or castration. It’s patently obvious that for fifty years or more many millions of people have deliberately shunned improving themselves knowing that just having a kid can get them “free” stuff for life. Time to stop it.
We had welfare reform. Obama admitted during the 2007 campaign that he was at first against it, but had since then seen the advantages of the reforms and supported them.
However, within the first months of office, Obama decided to “ignore” most of those reforms.
When Obama leaves the next President can just go back to “normal.” If it happens a whole bunch of people are going to be in for a shock.
Obama is a lying sack and his lawless government will haunt us for a generation.
Why do we need reform? We have a Federal Reserve that can print all the money the money the government needs and suppress interest levels to make it all affordable.
Faith based and private community programs do a much better job of outreach to the needy than the government does.
I’ve got a better, failsafe, permanent improvement:
END WELFARE NOW.
This was the solution followed by the United States during her first 160 years, and it contributed towards America becoming the economic powerhouse that it is today, and it is the ONLY LEGAL solution under the US Constitution.