In all those cases you described, 1900 in Chicago, 19th century, do you have any idea how much the States and the National Government was spending on these kinds of poor people then?
Questioning historical government spending on poverty during a discussion.
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It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.
The two of us have done this budgeting differently because we have done it bipartisanly from the very beginning.
That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.
It is clear from this example that good things can happen when we open up more areas for drilling in a responsible manner.