| President Obama's $3.69 trillion budget will raise taxes | | | | working after two years of receiving benefits, while |
| on all Americans by $1.4 trillion over the next decade, | | | | placing some limits on the receipt of federal funds. |
| according to figures compiled by the Heritage | | | | States therefore had the incentive to reduce the |
| Foundation. | | | | welfare rolls. |
| These numbers are in line with data supplied by the | | | | President Obama reversed this trend in his massive |
| Congressional Budget Office (CBO). | | | | "stimulus" bill. Hidden in the bill was a massive increase |
| Also CBO data, under a congress controlled by | | | | in welfare spending. The '96 reforms gave states |
| Democrats, reveals that the stimulus package will cost | | | | more money if they moved people OFF welfare, the |
| jobs and economic growth over the next 10 years. | | | | new policy gives states more money if more people |
| President Bush's final budget spent $2.9 trillion; his final | | | | stay ON welfare. |
| submitted budget (FY 2009) was for $3.1 trillion but the | | | | A Huge WELFARE INCREASE on top Of a Huge |
| Democrat congress refused to finalize that budget, | | | | Existing Expense |
| correctly believing a Democrat would become | | | | New welfare spending in the stimulus package, which |
| president and that he would sign a much larger bill, | | | | is separate from the hefty increases in the two latest |
| including all the welfare and entitlements, Democrats | | | | budgets, is over $260 billion. This comes to $6700 in |
| have fought for, since 2001, and now received. | | | | new welfare spending, for every welfare recipient in |
| In less than 90 days, President Obama and the | | | | the United States. |
| Democrat Congress took federal spending from $2.91 | | | | Just one program, MEDICAID, adds many billions to the |
| trillion to $3.69 trillion, (finalizing the 2009 FY budget and | | | | cost. Other new spending goes to expansions in food |
| passing the 2010 FY Budget Resolution) an unthinkably, | | | | stamps, the earned income tax credit, the refundable |
| enormous increase, topped only by World War 2 | | | | child credit, reduced Medicaid eligibility standards, Pell |
| increases. | | | | grants, and Title I education grants. |
| This is completely separate from the $700 billion bailout, | | | | Allegedly these new costs disappear after two years. |
| half under George Bush, half under President Obama. It | | | | A myth for sure. Rarely, if ever, has the promise of |
| is also separate from President Obama's $787 billion | | | | "temporary" been fulfilled with a government |
| stimulus bill. Tens of billions are being spent on such | | | | entitlement. |
| things as Tatoo Removal. | | | | This new cost, just from the Stimulus bill is estimated |
| Heritage states further that "The President's budget | | | | to add another half trillion dollars, each year, not |
| dumps a staggering $9.3 trillion in new debt-$68,000 | | | | including interest, which must be paid because all of this |
| per household-into the laps of America's children and | | | | comes from borrowed money. |
| grandchildren. This is more debt than has been | | | | The Final Redistribution and Deception That Should |
| accumulated by all previous Presidents in American | | | | Infuriate Middle America |
| history from George Washington to George W. | | | | Recipients receive what has been labeled a |
| Bush-combined." | | | | "refundable tax credit", providing up to $400 in cash to |
| Increasing The Welfare Rolls Is Once Again A Priority | | | | low-income adults who pay no income taxes ($800 |
| The 1996 welfare reform bill signed by President | | | | for married couples) including able-bodied adults without |
| Clinton, changed the way government treated welfare. | | | | dependent children. |
| It granted states the ability to design their own | | | | In what has become daily "Orwellian Newspeak" from |
| systems, if consistent with certain basic federal | | | | this White House, this blatant of all redistribution |
| requirements | | | | schemes is being sold under the label of: Make Work |
| Mr. Clinton's reform, also required recipients to begin | | | | Pay!!! |