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Sunday, March 06, 2005
Living in a welfare wonderland
An excellent piece on California's crippling welfare state in the San Francisco Chronicle, of all places:
It's a common media device to utilize the image of the voiceless poor. But in Sacramento, it's nonsense.
To the contrary, social-welfare advocates enjoy the most powerful lobby of all -- public unions that push chronic growth in social welfare. Such growth means more programs, government hiring and bigger union fiefdoms.
The fact that the public doesn't know this, and that some media don't explain it, is a bit scary. Joel Kotkin, senior fellow with Pepperdine University's Institute for Public Policy, recently studied inept economic decisions made by California politicians. Kotkin told me: "The exception is if the California Legislature says 'no' to welfare-expansion demands. Unions and welfare groups are linked at the hip, and the idiots in the Legislature throw money at them, not grasping whether it helps or hurts."
Good luck Arnie...
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