Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, questioned whether some people classified as poor or low-income actually suffer material hardship. He said that while safety-net programs have helped many Americans, they have gone too far, citing poor people who live in decent-size homes, drive cars and own wide-screen TVs.
"There's no doubt the recession has thrown a lot of people out of work and incomes have fallen," Rector said. "As we come out of recession, it will be important that these programs promote self-sufficiency rather than dependence and encourage people to look for work."
These people... still on Reagan's dishonest narrative that there are huge amounts of fat black women sitting around having babies and eating bon bon's because they're too lazy to work. The reality of course, is that team 1% cut tax rates for the trans-national CEO's and their country club buddies, then made the rules that promoted outsourcing and offshoring, and now that the jobs are gone they slam people for not being able to find work. That's like shooting somebody in the back and then blaming them for bleeding on the floor.
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