Obama warned over ‘welfare spendathon’

Even Mickey Kaus, a prominent liberal blogger, has denounced what he describes as the “get more people on welfare” provisions of Obama’s bill.

In one case, a family of four sisters who had 17 children between them put all of them together, took it in turns to babysit them and over the past three years claimed $540,000 (£374,000) in perfectly legal state childcare subsidies.

Perhaps more worrying for the president is that some of his natural liberal supporters are not feeling all that confident either.

Robert Rector, a prominent welfare researcher who was one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill, warned last week that Obama’s stimulus plan was a “welfare spendathon” that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history.

Douglas Besharov, author of a big study on welfare reform, said the stimulus bill passed by Congress and the Senate in separate votes on Friday would “unravel” most of the 1996 reforms that led to a 65% reduction in welfare caseloads and prompted the British and several other governments to consider similar measures.

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zimmer said:

Obama warned over ‘welfare spendathon’ - Times Online

Porkzilla.
An all Obama show brought to you via the tax payer. Current and generations into the future.

Not everyone has "skin in the game".
Perhaps Obama believes skin-takers, free loaders, and scheizters are a vital part of "the game" to buy votes.

The corruptive ooze of socialism is poised to get fathoms deeper.

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Rodney said:

Your pork barrel buddies on the right set this up... Reagn, Bush, and Bush chose BIG PROFITS / money whoreing ,and the climat of welfare to follow (naturaly) when outsourceing went unchecked in their combined 20 years in office over the past 28 years. Take away the jobs..., feed and house the jobless ! You can`t blaim this on Obama, although we all know he will do his best to make it much, much worse. THANKS RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS...THANKS LEFT WING EXTREMISTS...THANKS GLOBALIST SOCIALIST PIGS. ...THANKS MONEY WHORES. :2wave:

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Rodney said:

Your pork barrel buddies on the right set this up... Reagn, Bush, and Bush chose BIG PROFITS / money whoreing ,and the climat of welfare to follow (naturaly) when outsourceing went unchecked in their combined 20 years in office over the past 28 years. Take away the jobs..., feed and house the jobless ! You can`t blaim this on Obama, although we all know he will do his best to make it much, much worse. THANKS RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS...THANKS LEFT WING EXTREMISTS...THANKS GLOBALIST SOCIALIST PIGS. ...THANKS MONEY WHORES. :2wave:

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