My Daily Domestic Diigolet 02/16/2009

• LibriVox » Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowetags: homeschool, high, school, literature, American, Literture
• WHAT’S THE RUSH? – New York PostMore change we can believe in.tags: obama
  • After pushing Congress for weeks to hurry up and pass the massive $787 billion stimulus bill, President Obama promptly took off for a three-day holiday getaway.
• Obama warned over ‘welfare spendathon’ – Times OnlineMore Change we can believe in. Oh,I believe it alright. tags: change
  • RONALD REAGAN started it, Bill Clinton finished it and last week Barack Obama
    was accused of engineering its destruction. One of the few undisputed
    triumphs of American government of the past 20 years – the sweeping welfare
    reform programme that sent millions of dole claimants back to work – has
    been plunged into jeopardy by billions of dollars in state handouts included
    in the president’s controversial economic stimulus package.
  • As Obama celebrated Valentine’s Day yesterday with a return to his Chicago
    home for a private weekend with family and friends, his success in piloting
    a $785 billion (£546 billion) stimulus package through Congress was being
    overshadowed by warnings that an unprecedented increase in welfare spending
    would undermine two decades of bipartisan attempts to reduce dependency on
    government handouts.

    Robert Rector, a prominent welfare researcher who was one of the architects of
    Clinton’s 1996 reform bill, warned last week that Obama’s stimulus plan was
    a “welfare spendathon” that would amount to the largest one-year increase in
    government handouts in American history.

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