Welfare & Poverty

Former Shirley Sherrod employee accuses her of exploiting black farm laborers | Washington Examiner

August 3, 2010
By Ticklers Wife

It now seems that Mr. and Mrs. Sherrod inflicted quite a bit of pain and suffering on their own — and on some of the very people Mr. Sherrod described as “our own” in a speech earlier this year — at New Communities, Inc. (NCI). The group is described at the Rural Development Leadership...
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Obama’s New ‘Poverty’ Measurement – Robert Rector – National Review Online

March 10, 2010
By Ticklers Wife

The current poverty measure counts absolute purchasing power — how much steak and potatoes you can buy. The new measure will count comparative purchasing power — how much steak and potatoes you can buy relative to other people. As the nation becomes wealthier, the poverty standards will increase in proportion. In other words, Obama...
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Westchester Agrees to Desegregate Housing in Mostly White Towns – NYTimes.com

September 11, 2009
By Tickler

This evil, no different than housing projects on prime real estate other places, drives bigger divides and causes more racial resentment than nearly any other policy. Total lack of understanding how people think and feel. Westchester County entered into a landmark desegregation agreement on Monday that would compel it to create hundreds of houses...
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John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare – WSJ.com

August 12, 2009
By Ticklers Wife

While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in...
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Urine Test for Welfare Recipients – There Oughtta Be a Law

July 23, 2009
By Tickler

Here’s a good common sense email going around… THE JOB – URINE TEST Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay  me.. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to...
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A Reckless Congress – WSJ.com

July 17, 2009
By Ticklers Wife

Mr. Obama’s February budget provided the outline, but the House bill now fills in the details. To wit, tax increases that would take U.S. rates higher even than most of Europe. Yet even those increases aren’t nearly enough to finance the $1 trillion in new spending, which itself is surely a low-ball estimate. Meanwhile,...
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Black-White Gap in Jobless Rate Widens in New York City – NYTimes.com

July 13, 2009
By Tickler

Economists said they were not certain why so many more blacks were losing their jobs in New York, especially when a large share of the layoffs in the city have been in fields where they are not well represented, like finance and professional services. But in those sectors, the economists suggested that blacks may...
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YouTube – How The Democrats Caused The Financial Crisis: Starring Bill Clinton’s HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo And Barack Obama; With Special Guest Appearances By Bill Clinton And Jimmy Carter

July 11, 2009
By Tickler

YouTube – How The Democrats Caused The Financial Crisis: Starring Bill Clinton’s HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo And Barack Obama; With Special Guest Appearances By Bill Clinton And Jimmy Carter. Share on Facebook
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