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Frank Riggs: “It is unconscionable for the House Democratic Party to treat welfare recipients as a political constituency for…”

On the recordMarch 7, 1995
It is unconscionable for the House Democratic Party to treat welfare recipients as a political constituency for political gain. Mr. Speaker, Americans have said that they are sick of a failed liberal welfare system that traps people in a cycle of dependency. Five million families, 9 million kids on AFDC, and at any given time over 50 percent of those families have been on AFDC welfare for over 10 years. It is a system that ruins generation after generation, a system that has cost us as a country $5 trillion while making the situation worse. Two out of three black babies born out of wedlock, 20 percent of white children born out of wedlock. Mr. Speaker, the American people want us to fix the welfare mess before it does any more damage and fix it, we will.
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Frank Riggs
California
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Addressing the failures of the welfare system and the political treatment of welfare recipients.

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