more of the same...

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

from SLATE's daily news summary (of major US newspapers): >The Los Angeles
Times leads with the president's proposal to strengthen work requirements
for welfare recipients, while also offering expanded work-training programs
so that people will be better equipped to meet the tougher standards. Bush's
suggested reforms also included a proposal to spend about $200 million to
encourage recipients to get married.
... The NY [TIMES] notices that although Bush's welfare proposal calls for
recipients to be working more, it doesn't appear to offer any additional
funds for childcare. <

again, an intensification of the punitive approach to "helping" poor women
and their children. The LA TIMES headline says it all, emphasizing Bush's
phrase "the ethic of work" (designed to parallel "the axis of evil"??).
Since when Bush and his cronies valued work among their own crew? Dubya
inherited his wealth and political power. Whatever happened to richie Andrew
Carnegie's proposal for strict taxes on inherited wealth, in order to
prevent the creation of generations of spoiled rich kids like Dubya?

I didn't see anything in Dubya's proposal to deal with the fact that some
"welfare" recipients are hitting the ceiling and can't receive any more
benefits -- at a time when unemployment is projected to continue to rise for
a year or more. But perhaps my eyes were clouded by anger.

Jim Devine