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Whenever the economy starts to go south policies such as welfare, extended unemployment assistance and food stamps come under attack.  The problem isn’t because we don’t want to feed or house our neighbors but rather there is a perceived unfairness in it all.  It takes relatively few abuses for people to think that all welfare recipients cheating the system.  Like wise the number of people out there who believe people are getting fat while eating filet mignon they bought with the food stamps is also way too high.  Issues such as this are compounded by the perceived unfairness of how these programs are implements.  We see someone getting food for free and we want the same benefit.  We don’t see it as a system giving help to people who need it.
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On Monday, February 16th President Obama will sign into law the nearly $800 billion dollar stimulus package and most likely he will do so with a great deal of excitement. So what will the stimulus package do for you? For the vast majority of Americans there will be little to no change at all in their lives other than perhaps a small tax credit. The stimulus package isn’t geared toward the 90-94% of Americans who have jobs, it is geared toward helping the 6-10% who don’t.  That is exactly why it will fail to bring about any meaningful change.

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