after that you ll have to pay 10% of it. i ve also been in the senate where you changed those medicaid formulas where if you re a state that can pay your way, we re going to require you to pay more of it. again, i ve got people right now on a waiting list that have mental and physical disabilities that i want to get to and i want to provide them with the medicaid services. that s where our focus has been. so governor, that is your focus. you re also 9,000 people lost their plans, but then the president allowed them to extend it for two years. it was a disaster, just putting off the pain, it seems. let s talk about what s happening in kansas. you put together a lot of conservative policies. the results are pretty strong. unemployment rate at 4.9%. you have the expansion of national average of 6.7%. the kansas average is 4.9%. you have the largest tax cuts in the state history. you have expansion of gun rights, restriction on abortions, and sharply reduced welfare roles. is this basi
of his administration. he has three bills in the legislature right now that would seek to tighten up how easy it is to get on the welfare roles. one of them would also place the geographic restriction so that these individuals would be able to use their ebt card afar away as california or hawaii. it s interesting the ebt card like the atm go to disney world and get cash atm and yet you are not even spending your money restaurants or grocery stores in your own state which helps pay other salaries. other workers. well, i think this investigation, it s interesting on the coming on the 50 anniversary on the war on poverty. because the way that you sought to elevy united states poverty in this country has been to throw fist fulls of cash at it at least here in maine we see that s not working. we are spawning a culture of dependency which is really harmful for everyone involved, especially the taxpayer. of course, really hurts those who really need it if the money is being used in ways p
of his administration. he has three bills in the legislature right now that would seek to tighten up how easy it is to get on the welfare roles. one of them would also place the geographic restriction so that these individuals would be able to use their ebt card afar away as california or hawaii. it s interesting the ebt card like the atm go to disney world and get cash atm and yet you are not even spending your money restaurants or grocery stores in your own state which helps pay other salaries. other workers. well, i think this investigation, it s interesting on the coming on the 50 anniversary on the war on poverty. because the way that you sought to elevy united states poverty in this country has been to throw fist fulls of cash at it at least here in maine we see that s not working. we are spawning a culture of dependency which is really harmful for everyone involved, especially the taxpayer. of course, really hurts those who really need it if the money is being used in ways p
it worked. but, it did reduce welfare roles in half. we allowed them to get credit for school and college and bettering themselves. this is, i would agree with your second argument. this is about a recession. we still are not back to the number of jobs we had in 2008. yeah. to cut people off is crazy. i think this cutting the food stamps thing is crazy. if you re worried people are cheating then put in some more regulations. vermont just got fined for not being tough enough in terms of giving out food stamps. i have no problem with that. in this recession let s not cut off food stamps. this girl on the front page of the new york times. we re talking about poverty. working people fall into poverty. lose your job at 55 years old in this recession you re not getting another chance at a job.
poverty. that was the moment i said oh, it s only after the war on poverty was a few years along we stopped making progress. it sloped. it stopped. murray s landmark 1984 book losing ground not only concluded the war on poverty failed to help people out of poverty but it had devastating consequences for an under class stop in the culture of dependency. your opinions were controversial? they were conventional by early 1990s. welfare should be a second chance not a way of life. by 96 a republican congress passed and the government signed a welfare reform bill. in the years since that law has been hailed as a success helping people get off the welfare roles