dayman

States administer most federal programs and have wiggle room to operate in most of them, and if they want to go above and beyond, they certainly can choose to do so. In any event, this is...the state being the state. Most people here seem to like that... And as for the drug testing...the bottom line is if you don't like welfare you don't like welfare but there really hasn't been any evidence put forth that establishes this is somehow a great policy aside from just political reasons...obviously there are plenty of examples anyone could dig up...but as a whole in the scheme of the policy Florida was unable to make the argument that this is a legitimate problem: As the district court found, the State failed to offer any factual support or to present any empirical evidence of a “concrete danger” of illegal drug use within Florida's TANF population. See (cite). The evidence in this record does not suggest that the population of TANF recipients engages in illegal drug use or that they misappropriate government funds for drugs at the expense of their own and their children's basic subsistence. The State has presented no evidence that simply because an applicant for TANF benefits is having financial problems, he is also drug addicted or prone to fraudulent and neglectful behavior. -Lebron v. Sec. Florida DCF, 24 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. C 32

Us "libs" pay no taxes at all haven't u heard?

uh...he will ride any political whim...as will a number of other politicians but yes...in fact..that is very true of Rubio in fact to the extent anyone perceives his "camp" as separate from Jeb's...that is evidence

you can view it negative if you want...but Rubio is a political child of Jeb in reality

INTP master race. Get some ppp

don't fool yourself the rubio/jeb camp are the same...even though Rubio will ride any political whim he is still Jeb's little child

bottom line it depends on what state you are in...perhaps all states are too "liberal" but for the most part some states are fine...my state for one...not too bad...although yes we are the medicare fraud capital but that's south florida there's nothing you can do about that..

Ssi? Ssdi? Maybe tanf it does last a while...all i'm saying is not all money people get from government is tanf

For the record you guys know you can't actaully get welfare forever right? And there are various training and work requirements...and of those requirements you B word at your state for the most part if you want them changed...

All I know is Perry is awesome. I would not vote for him...but the guy is hilarious in a good way.

Almost no way that would make it out of the house.

His point has to do with the expectations of how to negotiate more so though...

A budget that proposes keeping aca taxes and getting rid of all aca benefits is not a startin point for either party

This "challenge him on the numbers" stuff is way overblown. Ryan's budget(s) are of no practical use to anyone in the nation. It's that simple. They are political documents that do not ground any real debate/negotiation in government.

What are we talking about then? Romney needed help all along it was obvious what kind of help he needed but he took Ryan anyway (who didn't help at all) and then he got crushed. Ryan was a drag on the ticket. It's a drag when one part of the team does nothing, even if they are supposed to fill only a lesser role.

Well I'm fairly sure Palin was a bigger mistake but the argument could be made (not persuasively enough for me) that Ryan was in fact a bigger political mistake if you argue that someone else like a Rubio could have cut into the latino deficit significantly (if you believe that)...in any event you don't pick someone that has no net positive impact on purpose...and if you are Romney you probably don't want Ryan...

In terms of the political effect on the ticket, what voters did Paul Ryan ad? What soft Obama vote did he steal with his policy? What minority group or gender group did he appeal to on a superficial level? Romney lost Wisconsin so he didn't gift a state to the ticket. From a political perspective, Ryan was a complete drag on the ticket. Hell they basically had to hid him from the media on the back end b/c of his public position on abortion exceptions.

What is funny about this issue is that everybody seems to ignore the obvious fact that WH tours not being held for a period of time is...literally...nothing. About the furthest thing from mattering anything could be

Courageous and serious for THESE unrealistic and vague budgets? Hardly true. Certainly the image they're going for though.

Spacey's character would fight anyone for a leg up the power structure in this series. He's awesome. While it is obvious that any scheming in real life quickly falls apart and politicians just start reacting (badly) it is nice to watch this and pretend that, having a system where politics is everything, someone could be good at it.

B-large...no...just no.

Why the hell has nobody just taken the top few guys over there out? This entire issue of little insignificant hermit regime playing with nukes to make themselves feel inportant is nuts

Lets not get ahead of ourselves the opposite ways now.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2138012-1,00.html Article on why logical reasoning says we aught to just build it.

silly Magox....savings is for Asian countries