Road to dependency

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Author(s) The Orange County Register editorial board
Source The Orange County Register
Date February 18, 2009
URL http://www.ocregister.com/articles/welfare-bill-people-2311050-money-state
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Quotes-start.png "If these radical increases in the welfare state had been proposed through ordinary congressional procedures – subcommittee hearings, witnesses from all sides, committee hearings, proposed amendments, a modicum of publicity – it is unlikely they would have stood a chance of passing. But the bill was assembled in secret and passed in haste encouraged by presidential inducement of panic, without even a pretense of due deliberation." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act should not have been passed on the topic American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.