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To: LS
is the end to AFDC

I consider all the handout programs ---SSI, foodstamps, WIC, Medicaid, free health clinics and hospitals, CHIPS, Headstart, free daycare, TANF and all the many others welfare. Just ending or renaming them doesn't get the people out there working or have girls stop having babies out of wedlock. It seems now we're going to be taxed to provide a 50% increase in global welfare programs.

91 posted on 03/29/2002 4:36:51 PM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ
Fitz here is the welfare situation in Texas at the end of Bush's time as govenor. In a state of 22 million people

TEXAS

WELFARE REFORM (TANF) PROGRESS STATUS

  • Texas's welfare caseload (TANF/AFDC families) has dropped 61.6% in the last six years, from 278,146 cases in January 1993 to 106,805 cases in September 1999.
  • This decrease is significantly higher than the 50.2% U.S. average caseload reduction during this period.
  • Texas ranks 15th among all states and the District of Columbia in welfare caseload reduction in the last six years.
  • On a positive note, since October 1996, the start of the PRWORA Welfare Reform, Texas's welfare caseload has decreased by 55.3%, which ranks 11th among all states and the District of Columbia.
  • For the last three months for which comparable data are available (July 1999–September 1999), Texas ranks 37th among all states in TANF reduction, with a three-month caseload percentage decrease of 0.6%.

100 posted on 03/29/2002 4:43:09 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: FITZ
You can "consider" Jupiter to be Mars, but it ain't.

Virtually EVERY conservative policy analyst, such as Charles Murray and Walter Williams, have agreed that by far the worst aspect of welfare was AFDC. Now, whether or not you think foodstamps are wrong, well . . . . Think what you want, but if you think that any candidate is going to run on ending all foodstamps, you're delusional.

I can't think of any genuine politicians---maybe Ron Paul---who would support this. Certainly any Christian politicians would have trouble denying government aid to the truly needy. Even Reagan advocated a "safety net."

122 posted on 03/29/2002 4:55:55 PM PST by LS
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