Pat Buchanan on Welfare & Poverty

Welfare is a state and local responsibility

An estimated 13.5 million children live in poverty. Welfare rolls are at a 30-year low. The 1996 welfare reform allowed states to design their own programs, required recipients to work and limited cash assistance to five years. Buchanan’s views: Sees welfare as state and local responsibility. Source: NyTimes.com “White House 2000” Jan 1, 2000

Corporations are “amoral behemoths”

[Buchanan] denounces America’s leading corporations as “amoral behemoths,” whose “loyalty is only to the bottom line.” He warns: “If they shut down factories here to open overseas, they will pay a price for the readmission of their goods into America’s market.” Source: Jeff Jacoby editorial, Boston Globe Sep 20, 1999

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