Ah…
We sure do live in interesting times. Honestly I prefer the boring times where things boringly work the way they’re meant to work.
It looks like we are about to have massive government spending in order to ’stimulate’ our economy. Never mind the fact that the things they (the Democrats) want to spend money on has nothing to do with the economy. They claim that there are no earmarks in this new legislation but that is only because they don’t need to earmark their pork and sneaky legislation.
I just found out one new item that they are putting in. The return of unlimited welfare. Back when Newt Gingrich and the Republican’s finally took control of the congress, after 50 some years of Democrat control, they created the Contract with America. One of the most important pieces of that legislation was welfare reform. It put a limit on how long people could recieve federal dollars. Bill Clinton often took all the credit for this and it’s subsequent increase in employment, but it was the Repulican’s that fought for this.
Now I read this under reported story.
The Return of Welfare As We Knew It
The House stimulus bill endangers Clinton’s biggest reform.
By BENJAMIN E. SASSE and KERRY N. WEEMS
Twelve years ago, President Bill Clinton signed a law that he correctly proclaimed would end “welfare as we know it.” That sweeping legislation, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, eliminated the open-ended entitlement that had existed since 1965, replacing it with a finite, block grant approach called the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program.
TANF has been a remarkable success. Welfare caseloads nationally fell from 12.6 million in 1997 to fewer than five million in 2007. And yet despite this achievement, House Democrats are seeking to undo Mr. Clinton’s reforms under the cover of the stimulus bill. Read the rest of this entry »
