[mburbank]

And here I thought we'd 'ended welfare as we know it'. Welfare is a drop in the bucket and while I'd applaud honest welfare reform, I'm not sure making certain poor women work enough hours to pay other poor women to take care of their kids makes a whoe hell of lot of sense, and it sure as hell beats suffering, hunger, and an angry underclass. Last time I looked there weren't enough jobs to go around without trying to get everyone on welfare to work. Was there corruption in the old sytem? Absolutely. There' corruption in every govrnment program. Try looking at the Pentagon if you'd actually like to save some significant green. If you totally abolished welfare the savings wouldn't begin to cover the upcoming tax cut.

A.) I don't trust 'government'. I trust a divided system of government loaded with check and balances and adevsarial parties.

B.) I like that the government takes away garbage and paves roads and hires police and fire departments, I like that they set air and water quality standards because I don't think a completely non-socialist market based economy would do any of those things for anyone except to ake a profit. You think keeping arcenic out of your drinking water would make anybody rich?