Stimulus money didn’t go to the states hardest hit by the recession. States with higher bankruptcy, foreclosure and poverty rates as well as lower incomes got significantly less money. And states that had higher unemployment rates received virtually exactly the same amount of money as states with lower rates. But there was one group that significantly benefited:…
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“The Life of Julia” is an interactive slideshow from Barack Obama’s reelection campaign that portrays a woman living her whole life reliant on government programs. In so doing, it inadvertently exposes the cyclical effect that government “help” can produce. Meet Julia, a girl who is automatically put into the system by being placed in…
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How can changing the rules by which welfare benefits are doled out save taxpayer dollars while making sure that only the people who are eligible for welfare benefits can receive them? It’s a trick question, because the key to making it work is to make the bureaucrats who operate the federal government’s welfare dispensing…
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What if the President of the United States was the driver of a car, and the speed at which he drove was the rate at which the U.S. national debt would increase while he was at the wheel? Would that be the kind of road trip you’d like to go on? Courtesy of the…
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