Posted on 04/05/2006 8:41:17 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
The number of New York City residents receiving public assistance fell to 402,281 last month, the lowest number since December 1964, at the start of President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty, and a decline of nearly two-thirds from its peak of nearly 1.2 million in March 1995, officials announced yesterday.
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The obligatory "It's Bush's fault".
Thank you.
Well, I guess taxes will be reduced - sweet!
In New York? Boy are YOU in for a massive disappointment.
I just thought I'd try for a brief moment of sunshine before reality set in.
Must be the horrible economy the media likes to harp on.
This is easy.
Just send the people still on welfare to San Fransico!
Send the homeless as well.
Better climate means better health and longer times on SF wonderful welfare rolls!
Dang. Sorry man, next time I will try not to be the little rain cloud.
And the NYT is against the declining number of welfare recipients. If our Dems can't pay them off with "free" money, what's to keep them voting for our Dems? Oh, besides our slanted, leftist old stinking hippie reporting bias.
Cuz they're all moving to Florida.
Welfare recipients in NY make so much they can move to Florida??????
Welfare cases moving to Kissimmee and Orlando. You've been warned!
"Welfare Rolls Falling Again, Amid Worries About Poverty
notice they (NYTimes) cant ever have anything POSITIVE to say
... coincidentally, the crime rate in New York is down by about 2/3rds, also...
Women and Minorities hit hardest!
And just the other day there was an article in the Times about how Blacks are moving out of NYC all of a sudden for the first time in a hundred-plus years. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
My wife is a teacher, and one of the parents called her the other day, to discuss the problems her daughter is having in school. The mother told my wife that "things are rough...my welfare was cut off...I don't have enough money for groceries; we may have to get rid of our DirecTV" (but she still has her cell phone). Of course, the mother didn't graduate high school, and the daughter (15) wants to quit school next year to work, and start working as a stripper when she is 18, because "they make a lot of money".
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