Posts Tagged ‘ welfare ’

Rather than irrationally starving themselves for a week, GW students should direct their efforts to addressing the root causes of poverty.
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It went largely unnoticed, but one month ago President Obama unwittingly delivered a golden sound bite for conservatives. While speaking at a million-dollar fundraiser in the People’s Republic of San Francisco, the president told the crowd of donors that if he didn’t win re-election in 2012, “then we’re going to have a government that tells the...
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Here is a list of 10 actual quotes/excerpts from actual Daily Kos staff writers. My “favorite“: “You Americans Aren’t Selfish Enough  “You pay all these taxes but you don’t want anything in return for it. You don’t want free health care. You don’t want time off of work. You don’t want anything. You’re not...
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There’s nothing I hate debating more than finances, so without delving into the specifics of the current financial crisis and my own opinion on the Federal Reserve’s “Boom-and-Bust” system, here is a brief thought. In the pinelands of New Jersey, which I live extremely close to, it is accepted that every few years a...
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Remembering State Communism’s bloody, bloody toll on humanity in the last century: How can we understand all this killing by communists? It is the marriage of an absolutist ideology with the absolute power. Communists believed that they knew the truth, absolutely. They believed that they knew through Marxism what would bring about the greatest...
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Alright, so we aren’t going to settle this here, obviously. I’ll offer my final thoughts on the matter: First, as Logan pointed out, it’s more than a bit disengenuous to claim that America owes its superpower status to a high tariff. Why not its abundant natural resources? Its relatively lax regulation of business? Its...
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Today, the Wall Street Journal reported the findings of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, which shows the income of the poorest 20% of Americans has raised by 78% since 1991. And female headed households in this category saw their income double in the same time. The CBO report attributes this growth for the...
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Check out this Associated Press article on the state of government entitlement programs ten years after the comprehensive “welfare reform” of the late 1990s. It’s an interesting read. My only complaint is that the author seemed to limit his interviews to two groups: people who support welfare programs, and people who supported the welfare...
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