6. "Brooks used the precipitous drop in poverty rates as a data point in his broader argument that
work is one of the most important factors in generating happiness. And not just creative, fun work—any work, even Walmart jobs, he says. It doesn't matter if you make minimum wage or Brooks's own
$645,000 salary—
the important thing is experiencing "earned success," he explains, or "the belief that you're creating value with your life and that you're creating value in the lives of other people."
Is America to Thank for the Global Decline in Poverty?
7. Let's look at the opposite doctrine....that of the fool/ideologue, Barack Obama
: do away with the work requirement in the welfare bill:
"Obama kills welfare reform
Determined to destroy Bill Clinton’s signature achievement, President Obama’s administration has opened a loophole in the 1996 welfare reform legislation big enough to make the law ineffective.
Its work requirement — the central feature of the legislation — has been diluted beyond recognition by the bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
On Thursday of last week, HHS issued regulations that modified — gutted — the work requirement. ... The regs say that “vocational educational training or jobsearch/readiness programs” “count as well” in meeting the basic condition that recipients work in order to receive welfare benefits."
Obama kills welfare reform