| They cut funding for social programs to reduce dependency and get people back into the work force. All they really did was cut funding for social programs. If you read down into the article, you find out why. When Ken Horn said we ought to throw people off welfare and force them to find work swinging hammers and paint brushes, it turns out that there isn't a lot of money in swinging hammers and paint brushes. So little, in fact, that you can't raise a family on it. They even interviewed an economist with the Mackinac Center who said that part of it was that people being hired by the auto industry aren't earning the wages they used to. Anyone else remember when conservatives in this state were howling that the high wages paid to private sector union workers were the reason why the state was becoming poor? |
