PaperPusher Wrote:
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> Problem with shutting off the faucet to those
> receiving the benefit of "affirmative action" is
> that you can NEVER do it! Same with the welfare
> system ... once someone is in the system, they do
> whatever it takes to keep getting benefits and dig
> forever to milk the system for more. You can
> NEVER stop it.
PaperPusher Wrote:
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> Problem with shutting off the faucet to those
> receiving the benefit of "affirmative action" is
> that you can NEVER do it! Same with the welfare
> system ... once someone is in the system, they do
> whatever it takes to keep getting benefits and dig
> forever to milk the system for more. You can
> NEVER stop it.
Sorry, please review recent (1990's) history. A component of the Republican Party's "Contract With America" was welfare reform that Clinton ended up signing into law. Since the bill's passage in 1996 people can't receive welfare benefits for more than five years, plus other reforms.
from
http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html:
"3. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility."
The result was the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996", info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_reform