Dick Morris Quotes
The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.
Morris, Dick, and Eileen McGann. Catastrophe: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests Are Transforming a Slump into a Crash. HarperCollins, 2009.
It was finally passed and signed into law on August 22, 1996
Mormons have been divided on this issue. Many Mormons do accept welfare, and government subsidies for agriculture and other business corporate welfare and some hold with Benson’s view and would not accept for example agricultural subsidies for not growing crops. Ironically, Benson, as the Secretary of Agriculture, presided over the nation’s largest give-away program for not working: agricultural subsidies. However, this statement was made after his government service and was made as President of the Mormon Church.
What makes this a noteworthy political quotation is that when he made the statement, his party had lurched to the radical right and almost no one else in the Republican party would publicly say that the Federal Government had any legitimate role that involved social services, food distribution, welfare or health care. Also the Republican Presidential candidate the day before had been discovered writing off the poorest 43 percent of the country. Heller however, was up for reelection in a state what was hit much harder than most in the Great Recession and without Federal Assistance many state residents would be in terrible circumstances and Heller would not fare well in the election if he took the then required Republican ideology. Also, Heller came from a blue collar family and had a much different outlook than most Republicans of that particular time.
Richard Samuel Morris is an American political author and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant.
