Another instance where you have to wonder if Biden really believes in what his government is doing … https://t.co/nW0umEDEBw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2021
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February 17, 2021 at 01:18AM
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"Democrats will need at least nine GOP votes." Not 10? If a bill passes 59-41 Harris gets to break a "tie" and give it a 60th vote? I should have paid attention in civics classs. https://t.co/iDVDHV3ZJv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2021
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February 16, 2021 at 08:59PM
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Is it possible this piece doesn't say what happened to wages? Don't think it does. That's practically journalism malpractice. https://t.co/jZe3eIQTbJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 16, 2021
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February 16, 2021 at 01:20AM
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They've now changed it. kausfiles gets results. https://t.co/C1Rd5DAMFo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 16, 2021
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February 15, 2021 at 10:10PM
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Counterpoint: https://t.co/B334v0hdhj https://t.co/0ngFCtnyAk
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February 15, 2021 at 06:54PM
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Why did @LindseyGrahamSC delay Merrick Garland's AG confirmation hearing? Ellis has a rather alarming theory (which I can't quite believe) … https://t.co/zzgk2qymzR
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February 15, 2021 at 06:32PM
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.@benyt knows "several rather nice restaurants in the town of Ollantaytambo in the Andes"? He needs to get out less. https://t.co/3WunjofwXl
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February 15, 2021 at 06:05PM
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If liberal judges now retire to "senior status," and they're replaced by other liberal judges, how does that "swing" a court back to the left (at least for en banc review)? https://t.co/mclA5N0S8o
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 15, 2021 at 05:18PM
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The Dem idea is obviously to sell it as a temporary pandemic fix — 'it's only for a year!'– and then in a year they'll have "facts on the ground" and will argue 'you don't want to take away these checks, do you?' https://t.co/2hVuunBnVm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 15, 2021 at 03:41AM
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Showering people with cash (eg $2,000 checks) is a good idea in the pandemic. But this particular "child" bit of Biden's plan is designed as start of a permanent post-pandemic program & should be treated as such. If they took its $120B cost & added it to the $2000 checks-great! https://t.co/RgrtdyuSHR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 15, 2021 at 03:37AM
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And @mattyglesias sneers at "The right’s evidence-free work argument" against the no-strings child allowance plans. (https://t.co/qIOEoBvMVh) Huh? This seems like evidence! When we got rid of the earlier no-strings AFDC cash dole plan, work soared. https://t.co/01rdUuyYvJ
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February 15, 2021 at 03:09AM
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I *think* I got that right …
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February 15, 2021 at 02:56AM
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In other words the percent working jumped 17 points–from roughly 43% to 60%–from 1993 to 2002 for this group, a startling increase, and welfare reform (as opposed to, eg, the economy) accounted for more than half of that. According to this study, anyway: https://t.co/5os7Bz25gG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 15, 2021 at 02:50AM
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.@swinshi if anything undersells role of welfare reform in historic rise in work (& decline in welfare) among single moms after '96. Worst-off group- <HS degree -had 17.16 percentage point increase in work. 9.72 points of that due to work req./time limits https://t.co/yaXiFIAurK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 15, 2021 at 02:26AM
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"Its goal has been to weaken or eliminate welfare work requirements and to maintain or restore welfare aid to non-working persons and families. If enacted as permanent policy, the Biden child cash grants would largely accomplish that reversal." 2/2 https://t.co/uveA26DXIO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 15, 2021 at 01:32AM
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"The 1990s welfare reform dramatically reduced dependence and increased employment, causing an unprecedented drop in child poverty … Nevertheless, the [Left] has never accepted this reform and has sought to reverse it ever since."-Rector/Fishpaw 1/ https://t.co/c6Wx7NfoWo
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February 15, 2021 at 01:31AM
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I'd missed this. https://t.co/fgzPon4XSQ
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February 15, 2021 at 12:55AM
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"Biden‘s DHS to Release 25.6K Migrants into Texas, California Communities"[piece names the cities, which Biden Admin. tried to keep secret] https://t.co/zbNTZDWVm5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 14, 2021 at 10:09PM
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During the pandemic I'm all for sending out big cash checks to everyone–$2,000 etc. Or more! But this is a child allowance program designed by Dems to be the template for a post-pandemic addition to welfare state. Without some work requirement it will replicate problems of AFDC https://t.co/OMMHqWgFM1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 14, 2021 at 09:24PM
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That's why we should have a WPA-style program of guaranteed last-resort jobs. If Biden proposed that it would be a great thing. (Also might help promote 'unity,' but let's not get carried away.) https://t.co/frD4WcuA7b
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 14, 2021 at 07:08PM
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Being a parent is work. But having famiies in which *no one* needs to go into the labor force for generation after generation doesn't result in a healthy, egalitarian society. At least that was one reason for Clinton-era consensus to require single moms on welfare to get jobs. https://t.co/CvwBa4nZx0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 15, 2021
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February 14, 2021 at 07:06PM
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I agree that no-strings cash relief makes sense in the pandemic. But Democrats clearly intend to make this program permanent. They're not hiding that. https://t.co/3iYe9987KW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 14, 2021
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February 14, 2021 at 06:50PM
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Hmmm. "The New Georgia Project" and the "Coaition for the People's Agenda." Do those sound like Repubican groups to you? https://t.co/vUnRUsK6Dd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 14, 2021
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February 14, 2021 at 06:40PM
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.@SenatorSinema @JoeManchinWV @SenatorTester — are you all happy with Biden's plan to send welfare-like checks (in addition to the special $2000 Covid checks) to parents who don't work? As stalking horse for permanent federal welfare program? https://t.co/LC4Xmkfq3v
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 14, 2021
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February 14, 2021 at 10:45AM
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Correction: @LAtimes says "sink," not "shrink." Same difference. https://t.co/kdwHXK6QIP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 14, 2021
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February 14, 2021 at 04:40AM
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