Political Quotes

“Obviously, they can redesign the entire program. They can redesign eligibility criteria. They can do a whole host of things that put requirements in that we do not have now. For example, you mentioned the work requirement. Several States have put in an immediate work requirement. I think it is Wisconsin that did, and we saw the number of people on welfare drop, by some enormous number like 20 or 30 percent, like that because people did not want to sign up and work. I think we will see, and I think Governors believe if you make welfare into a system that is a dynamic system where people are going to have their lives changed, turned around, back out, it is sort of--I think of the Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy got to the Wizard of Oz, before they saw the wizard, they went in and the scarecrow got stuffed full of hay and the tin man got all shined up. If you see this as this program where you come in and try to change peoples lives as a dynamic process, in a shorter scope as opposed to one that is more of a long-term maintenance kind of system, you will see people opting out in some cases, so we have lower caseloads.”