ShamMol said:Actually, the paper on welfare was analyzing it after a summer of watching it in both a dpss office (where they hand it out/deny it) and on the street. It included a lot of research. It happened to conclude that federal regulations were too stringent in regards to food stamps and that states had adopted some horrible regulations in regard to it. The main body of it focused in on the lesser known CALWorks and how mothers were denied for absolutely no reason-I spent about a month documenting this. I learned so much doing it...amazing really. I was offered a part-time job as a result of it in a pro-bono law firm in their homelessness prevention division.Originally Posted by Fantasea
You may recall that all of the disasters the socialist-lib-dems predicted would happen if the welfare system was reformed never did materialize.
Consider, too, that Reagan's tax cutting policies resulted in greatly increased tax revenues. That is happening right now as a result of the Bush tax cuts. At this point, the budget deficit is about 20% lower than it was projected to be for FY2005.
Regean's policies were a flop, plain and simple. But honestly, if you try and convince a conservative of that you are just told to shut up and take some prozac (That actually happened twice). That paper was only 15 pages long and not nearly long as my welfare one, but still fun to do.
1. You are attempting to pick fly turds out of pepper.
2. A blanket statement that "Reagan's policies were a flop", is not even remotely responsive.
3. You totally ignored the fact that, "At this point, the budget deficit is about 20% lower than it was projected to be for FY2005."
This reflects the well understood economic principle (understood by capitalists, that is) that reducing taxes rates stimulates business and consumer activity which generates more income which produces more tax revenue. Raising tax rates slows business and consumer activity which reduces income and produces less tax revenue.
It happened under JFK, who noted that ,"a rising tide lifts all ships"; under Reagan, who cured the "malaise" produced by Carter's ineptitude, and now, under Bush.
I believe that one of the primary reasons the Democats keep losing support is because of things like Kerry vowing that, if elected, he would rescind the Bush tax cuts.