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Obama Taking Jobs Plan On The Road, Speaks In Richmond, Virginia

Friday, September 9, 2011


Reform = cuts

Means-test­ing is a bad idea because it makes Social Security and Medicare into welfare programs.

Studies have repeatedly shown that social welfare programs and institutio­ns have broader public support *and* are more generous when they are universal rather than focused on the poor. And in fact, once means-test­ing begins it’s likely to be followed by a further tightening of who qualifies in the future. It destroys the notion of a social insurance program and it creates new bureaucrac­y and paperwork that further discredit public institutio­ns.


About Unemployment
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