House GOP budget will focus on reforming welfare, overhauling social programs
As a direct counter to President Obama’s recent emphasis on the gap between rich and poor, the upcoming House Republican budget will focus on welfare reform and recommend a sweeping overhaul of social programs, including Head Start and Medicaid.
The push, led by Rep. Paul Ryan, returns the GOP’s attention to a policy front that animated the party in the 1990s and signals Republicans’ desire to expand their pitch to voters ahead of this year’s midterm elections. This new effort comes after the party spent months fixated on combating the federal health-care law and engaged in intraparty squabbles over fiscal strategy.
On Monday, Ryan (R-Wis.), the House Budget Committee chairman, will publish an often stinging 204-page critique of the federal government’s anti-poverty policies, questioning the efficacy of dozens of initiatives and underscoring where Republicans say consolidation or spending reductions are needed.
“There are nearly 100 programs at the federal level that are meant to help, but they have actually created a poverty trap,” Ryan said in an interview. “There is no coordination with these programs, and new ones are frequently being added without much consideration to how they affect other programs. We’ve got to fix the situation, and this report is a first step toward significant reform.”
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And then lets move on to taking away the billions in corporate welfare programs that go to "millionaires" and "billionaires". Then take away all tax breaks given to the rich. We can also go after the billions we have wasted on needless wars given to us by republicans and George W. Bush. Heck lets make them pay for those wars that allowed their political donors to make billions, many unaccounted for, from said wars.
The idea that the only way to fist this country is to take more away from those who have very little to begin with, while the rich continue to get all the "welfare" the want, is asinine to say the least! Of course what can we expect from a bunch of lazy ass republicans who only worked 120 some day last year? These idiots are disgusting! 
