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Welfare Reform Again
by Cal Thomas 
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scum-Eric Holder for Prison, Not President
by Daniel John Sobieski
{ americanthinker.com } ~ If President Trump could hand-select his 2020 Democratic opponent, he could do no better than former liar-nObama attorney general scum-Eric Holder... the only Cabinet official held in contempt of Congress for withholding documents in the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. He is the poster child for the Deep State corruption that festered under liar-nObama and the politicization of both the DOJ and FBI. The former A.G., who is arguably responsible for the homicide of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, murdered by guns scum-Holder and liar-nObama funneled to Mexican drug lords, is in fact considering such a bid: Former Attorney General scum-Eric Holder let the cat out of the bag Tuesday night during a visit to the very friendly confines of MSNBC, acknowledging he is "thinking" about a 2020 presidential run to challenge President Donald Trump....
Turkey Targeting Greece - Again
by Uzay Bulut
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Turkey has been harassing Greece consistently. Most recently, this week, on April 17... two Turkish fighter aircraft harassed the helicopter carrying Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Greek Armed Forces Chief Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis as they were flying from the islet of Ro to Rhodes. With the illegal seizures and occupation of northern Cyprus in 1974 and the Syrian city of Afrin this March -- with virtually no global response -- Turkey apparently feels unchallenged and eager to continue; this time, it seems, with the oil-and-gas rich islands of Greece. Another provocation by the Turkish government recently took place when three young Greek men recently paid tribute to a dead pilot by planting five flags in some islets in the Aegean. According to the Turkish media, Turkey first urged Greece to remove the flags, then carried out a military operation against a tiny islet... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12199/turkey-targeting-greece-again .
SPLC Pulls Controversial ‘Anti-Muslim
Extremist’ List After Legal Threats
by PETER HASSON
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Southern Poverty Law Center has removed an online list of “anti-Muslim extremists”... after British Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz threatened to sue the SPLC over his inclusion on the list. The list is the fourth article in two months the SPLC has deleted over accuracy concerns. The left-wing nonprofit first published the list in November 2016, offering it as a “field guide” to journalists. In addition to Nawaz, the list included Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who advocates against female genital mutilation, among other issues. Ali blasted the SPLC’s “deeply offensive smears” in an August 2017 op-ed for The New York Times...SPLC is a corrupt organization. http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/19/splc-maajid-nawaz-muslim-extremist/?utm_medium=email .
Are Republicans Draining or Filling the Swamp?
by Chris Talgo and Lennie Jarratt
{ americanthinker.com } ~ On March 9, 2010, Democratic Party speaker of the House Nancy Pulosi said, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."... Pulosi's infamous words referred to the 2,300-page Affordable Care Act, now more commonly known as "liar-nObamacare." Democratic leadership, anticipating voter backlash, rushed to cram their controversial health care bill through Congress before the 2010 midterm election. Democrats were in such a hurry to send the bill to President Barack liar-nObama, they didn't have time to read it. liar-nObama signed his "legacy bill" on March 23, 2010. Eight months later, Democrats paid a steep price at the polls. The Tea Party shockwave that resulted is the biggest turnover election since the Great Depression. Republicans gained 63 seats in the House of Representatives, six in the Senate, and 680 in state legislative races....
U.S.-based Imam Advocates Violence
Against Israel in Anti-Semitic Sermon
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Welfare Reform Again
{ townhall.com } ~ When President liar-Bill Clinton signed the welfare reform act in 1996, which he negotiated with then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, the left claimed people would starve. They didn't. According to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, between 1996 and 2000, the employment rate for single mothers increased from 63 percent to 76 percent. In addition, the overall poverty rate has declined over the last half-century. Many able-bodied people who once relied on a government check found jobs and started earning a paycheck.
Good news, but the sideshow that has attached itself to so much of the Trump administration has distracted many from things that actually affect people's lives.
President Trump last week signed an executive order, the purpose of which is, according to a White House press release, to reduce poverty in America "by promoting opportunity and economic mobility."
Some of that is already happening with unemployment numbers the lowest they've been in 17 years.
The press release says that in 2017, "the Federal Government spent more than $700 billion on low-income assistance." It notes that since modern welfare began during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, the system has become a large bureaucracy with little incentive for people to look for work.
Conservatives like to say they measure success not by how many people receive government assistance, but by how many don't. It is more than a sound bite. Helping people become independent of government is real compassion.
The executive order addresses what for many has become an addiction to government: "While bipartisan welfare reform enacted in 1996 was a step toward eliminating the economic stagnation and social harm that can result from long-term Government dependence, the welfare system still traps many recipients, especially children, in poverty and is in need of further reform and modernization in order to increase self-sufficiency, well-being, and economic mobility."
The order also stresses the need for better social networking to become more involved in helping able-bodied people to acquire the skills, education, child care and especially the motivation to work. I would add that churches and religious institutions that benefit from tax breaks should be encouraged to do more to help poor people find employment.
The president cites another key to reducing the welfare rolls: "Address the challenges of populations that may particularly struggle to find and maintain employment including single parents, formerly incarcerated individuals, the homeless, substance abusers, individuals with disabilities and disconnected youth..."
Education choice should be another component of welfare reform. A good education for a child currently living in poverty is a ticket out of the system and into a better life.
I have written before about the nation of Singapore, where unemployment hovers around 2 percent. That's because the country has no welfare programs. If one is capable of working and doesn't work, he gets no check from the government. The truly needy are cared for. Knowing that government is a last resort and not a first resource and that if you don't work, you won't have money to buy food, is a powerful incentive to find a job.
What the administration should do to help sell its welfare reform initiative is locate people who benefitted from the 1996 legislation and who are working and supporting their families and feature them at public events. Optimism almost always overcomes pessimism and the story of people overcoming odds is America's story.
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