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Not mentioned is that Bush ratcheted up the work requirements too.

This was the crown jewel of the Republican Congress and later Bush on Welfare Policy.

If you want assistance, you must work. We will help you but all assistance comes to an end.

This ended the cycle of generations on welfare, now it is being dismantled. Is this being done in other states too?

It looks like the era of big government and a population of people living off the government is soon to return.

Constantly, there is talk that a state government must spend to get matching funds for a project. Here is a case where there is additional funding that a state if passing over so their dollars can be spent for something else.

Bike paths in Eugene? See the unforeseen damage of the stimulus.

1 posted on 05/04/2009 10:45:30 PM PDT by dila813
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Bike paths in Eugene? See the unforeseen damage of the stimulus.

The damage is not unforeseen. The stimulus has tax bombs at the federal and state levels. Conservative governors have bitterly complained about the state tax bombs but the media has provided good cover for the rats. The stimulus has bribed states to spend recklessly while state budgets implode. We are living in a worst case scenario of a fiscal train wreck.

2 posted on 05/04/2009 10:55:24 PM PDT by businessprofessor
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“even welfare”

Yeah, it’s one thing if it’s just jobs, incomes, productivity, and individual freedoms that are lost, but WELFARE? Please don’t let it hit the handouts!


5 posted on 05/04/2009 11:20:14 PM PDT by BobbyT
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Currently, California offers payments fo children past the 36? month limitation on parental benefits. Oregon does not. As a CA border county with Oregon, we see a steady stream of welfare refugees coming into CA along I-5. These new changes would make a bad situation even worse.


7 posted on 05/05/2009 1:31:34 AM PDT by marsh2
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Seems like they are pulling up the ladder that will actually help people get off welfare. Its probably cheaper to keep people dependent—for the short term anyway.


8 posted on 05/05/2009 4:36:42 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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