[JohnGalt]

Any yet we are spending more on welfare programs (check the budget)...ironic isn't it?

In 1994, when the GOP took the House and Senate, we were bold enough to talk about shutting down the Department of Education and defunding the National Endowment of the Arts.

Now we control all three branches, and the top three priorities are a new cabinet level deparment, troop movements in the Middle East, and making permanent a tax rate cut that barely keeps pace with inflation, phased in over 10 years.

And that's just in 8 years.

[GOPJ]

Democrats said welfare reform was about "cheaper". We said it was about human dignity.

The poor have been crippled by liberal dependency programs. And yes, it's going to cost more to help them become alive and independent, but in the long run it will be better and cheaper. But just cheaper? Never. That was always a liberal lie.

Any yet we are spending more on welfare programs (check the budget)...ironic isn't it?

[GOPJ]

Good point:

In 1994, when the GOP took the House and Senate, we were bold enough to talk about shutting down the Department of Education and defunding the National Endowment of the Arts