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The deadline for closing the last remaining FEMA trailer parks in Louisiana is fast approaching and, as I predicted some days ago, bleeding heart reports are beginning to hit the wires. Just today an Associated Press story was picked up by my local paper, The Press-Enterprise. Beginning with the headline — “Katrina victims face new worry” — [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as American Dependence, Core Values, Welfare at 4:29 PM UTC
At a recent California Republican Assembly meeting, State Senator Dennis Hollingsworth revealed a dirty little secret concerning California’s $14 billion budget shortfall. The deficit exists despite steadily increasing revenues flowing into state coffers. That’s right; do not adjust your antenna. Golden State tax revenue increased in 2007 by 4%, but the spendthrifts in Sacramento budgeted for 7% [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Welfare at 4:33 PM UTC
Until recently, most discussions of government assistance of the poor focused on the positive benefits derived from legislated generosity. Giving folks a hand up (not a handout), a head start, equal opportunity, and a chance to pursue the American dream took their turns as phrase-of-the-moment justifications for housing subsidies, food stamps, and welfare checks. Now fifty years into America’s greatest social [...]