[traditional1]

“Just don’t touch my Obamaphone, EBT, WIC, Section 8 housing, Food Stamps, and tax the crap out of the rich white bastards and I’ll keep voting for you”.

[muawiyah]

Welfare and public housing could be easily transferred back to the states now that there are so few bankrupt counties.

The fact this local program ended up at the federal level was due to circumstances at the time ~ not because of any well thought out plan of action.

You still wouldn't balance the federal budget though.