Something in the drinking water????
Americans see the result of a communist in the White House: lies, failed foreign policy, incompetent handling of the economy....
Yet.... this:
"De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor in Landslide"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/nyregion/de-blasio-is-elected-new-york-city-mayor.html
Once, there was this:
"Under Rudy Giuliani's leadership, New York City has become the best-known example of the resurgence of urban America." Biography of Rudolph Giuliani
And then Bloomberg who continued Giuliani's economic policies:
1. "The 1996 federal welfare-reform law, which time-limited aid and imposed a work requirement on many recipients, also gave the states wide latitude in designing welfare programs.... During their tenures, Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg not only reduced the welfare rolls; they transformed the nations capital of welfare dependency into a center of welfare reform founded on an ethos of personal responsibility.
[Obama has destroyed that 1996 reform, no longer requiring work...]
2. .... remember the costly misery of the pre-reform era.... irrational excess. The federal War on Poverty had flooded the city with social-services money to help the poor, and John Lindsay, who became mayor in 1966, enthusiastically spent it .... Lindsays first commissioner of social services, Mitchell GinsbergCome-and-Get-It Ginsberg, as the Daily News dubbed him.
3. ... welfare-rights advocates took him at his word. They scoured New York for potential recipients, held sit-ins, and issued ultimatums for even more government welfare money and fewer restrictions on getting it... Activist lawyers and liberal judges dilutedand, in some cases, overturnedrules that had kept the welfare rolls from dramatically expanding in the past.... The number of New Yorkers on welfare doubled during Lindsays mayoralty.
[Of course, this President is the national John Lindsay]
4. .... welfare explosion reflected a striking shift in social attitudes. Until then, the poor had come to New York to improve their lot. Some might need public or private aid, but to receive it was evidence of failure, even a reason for shame.
The Roosevelt administration had intended the main federal welfare program, Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), to be merely a temporary way for abandoned and widowed women with children to counter the severe hardship of the Great Depression.
Even so, FDR worried that the program could become a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit that sapped individual initiative.
[Obama's pride is that under him, more are on food stamps than work full-time in America]
CJ Mobile: Saving Welfare Reform
Now NYC has an Obama as mayor....and back we go to crime, dependency, and the unsustainable economic environment that the national $17 trillion debt represents.
And so, the sunlight fades on the once great 'shining city on the hill.'
Americans see the result of a communist in the White House: lies, failed foreign policy, incompetent handling of the economy....
Yet.... this:
"De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor in Landslide"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/nyregion/de-blasio-is-elected-new-york-city-mayor.html
Once, there was this:
"Under Rudy Giuliani's leadership, New York City has become the best-known example of the resurgence of urban America." Biography of Rudolph Giuliani
And then Bloomberg who continued Giuliani's economic policies:
1. "The 1996 federal welfare-reform law, which time-limited aid and imposed a work requirement on many recipients, also gave the states wide latitude in designing welfare programs.... During their tenures, Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg not only reduced the welfare rolls; they transformed the nations capital of welfare dependency into a center of welfare reform founded on an ethos of personal responsibility.
[Obama has destroyed that 1996 reform, no longer requiring work...]
2. .... remember the costly misery of the pre-reform era.... irrational excess. The federal War on Poverty had flooded the city with social-services money to help the poor, and John Lindsay, who became mayor in 1966, enthusiastically spent it .... Lindsays first commissioner of social services, Mitchell GinsbergCome-and-Get-It Ginsberg, as the Daily News dubbed him.
3. ... welfare-rights advocates took him at his word. They scoured New York for potential recipients, held sit-ins, and issued ultimatums for even more government welfare money and fewer restrictions on getting it... Activist lawyers and liberal judges dilutedand, in some cases, overturnedrules that had kept the welfare rolls from dramatically expanding in the past.... The number of New Yorkers on welfare doubled during Lindsays mayoralty.
[Of course, this President is the national John Lindsay]
4. .... welfare explosion reflected a striking shift in social attitudes. Until then, the poor had come to New York to improve their lot. Some might need public or private aid, but to receive it was evidence of failure, even a reason for shame.
The Roosevelt administration had intended the main federal welfare program, Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), to be merely a temporary way for abandoned and widowed women with children to counter the severe hardship of the Great Depression.
Even so, FDR worried that the program could become a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit that sapped individual initiative.
[Obama's pride is that under him, more are on food stamps than work full-time in America]
CJ Mobile: Saving Welfare Reform
Now NYC has an Obama as mayor....and back we go to crime, dependency, and the unsustainable economic environment that the national $17 trillion debt represents.
And so, the sunlight fades on the once great 'shining city on the hill.'
