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.
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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."