Because of the importance of this issue, I continue to be mystified at the lack of coverage.
Do you remember when Reagan was president - there was a story on the news every night about starving people, cost of food and gas, increasing ranks of the poor, people losing homes? Things are much worse now - and we talk about women in binders endlessly.
“when Reagan was president - there was a story on the news every night about starving people, cost of food and gas, increasing ranks of the poor, people losing homes?”
Yes, and the overall theme of those stories was that Reagan, the heartless bastard, was slashing welfare for those people.
Go to this site and scroll about half way down to a graph labeled, Federal, State, and Local Welfare Spending: 1929-2000.
http://www.heritage.org/research/testimony/the-size-and-scope-of-means-tested-welfare-spending
That one tiny little dip in the 1980’s was all that Reagan was able to accomplish, and the liberals had a cow over that.
Given what ACTUALLY needs to be done, I fear that only the second American Revolution will fix the problem. Too many millions of people have been allowed to sit and home and get a check for doing nothing for too long. And since they all vote democrap, one party has a vested interest to see it stays that way.