On the recordApril 28, 2010
If I could just add with Robert Rector from the Heritage Foundation, he also did a study on welfare and increasing use of welfare in the United States. The trajectory that we're on with the growth in welfare is also unsustainable. And we also recall that shortly after President Obama came into office, one thing that he did is he rescinded all of the welfare reform regulations that were put into place by the Republican Congress after they won control in 1994. So all of the reforms that actually got people off of welfare and into working jobs and actually plateaued the cost of the welfare, now all of those restraints have been taken off. We're seeing a dramatic increase in the trajectory in welfare spending. But something else that was interesting from Robert Rector, he said that if an individual on the full panoply of welfare benefits leaves welfare, that that individual would have to seek a job paying in excess of $44,000 a year to replace the welfare benefits that they're receiving from the Federal Government.
