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On the recordJanuary 16, 2012
The problem has been there's such an overreliance, particularly in the Democratic Party, that the solution to poverty is more government spending and more federal programs.
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Ari Fleischer
Republican · New York

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Fleischer critiques the Democratic approach to poverty, suggesting it leads to dependency rather than solutions.

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