[GeronL]

Sounds good to me.

[muawiyah]

It's still the law. Although most Republicans are supposed to believe (and many Democrats also fear) that Welfare Reform cleaned the rolls the cold hard facts are that the USPS "move update" standard did the job.

Without going into the convoluted discussion of how that works, I was there, present, when Virginia ran its list against the Move Update file and saw HALF of their welfare recipients DISQUALIFIED pending a visit by a welfare case worker.

It was truly startling. Word spread nationwide and before it was over half the welfare rolls in America had been cut in half.

I'm sure there are still some welfare cheats but the fact there's been recent growth in the rolls is probably due to LONG TERM UNEMPLOYMENT ~ and that's caused by JOB LOSS.

If Vitter is of the impression food stamp demand is driven by greed to the exclusion of need he's trying to avoid the real problems.

It's not likely he can balance the budget out of the Food Stamp Program.