When Barack Obama with great fanfare signed the 2009 stimulus
bill, he quietly gutted America's most successful domestic policy
achievement--the 1996 welfare reform. This revolutionary policy had
freed millions of Americans from the shackles of dependency. There
was no legitimate reason to undo what had succeeded, and the moral
and economic costs will be huge. The facts are clear: welfare
reform worked for America. And we urgently need to relearn
"why."
"Government Is the Problem" is the story of a broken welfare
system that needed to be fixed, of a great leader named Ronald
Reagan who said that it "could" be fixed, of doubters who said that
it could not be fixed, and of the man--Robert B. Carleson--who
fixed it. Carleson pioneered the true reform that reversed a
growing dependence on the welfare state and moved America away from
the ruinous path of income redistribution.
Much has been written about welfare reform over the years - a
lot of it by people who had no involvement with the process. But in
this book the real story of how welfare was fixed is told. Bob
Carleson has left a fascinating memoir of the insights and ideas
that motivated welfare reform; of the controversies and obstacles
that threatened to derail it; and of the principles that must be
followed to direct scarce public resources to the truly needy.
With the country in economic crisis, Americans are asking
questions about government intervention in the economy, about
individual responsibility, and about the future of our children's
freedom. What could be more poignant than a testimonial from the
man who proved that government is, indeed, the problem?
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