That's Hadley Heath of the Independent Women's Forum. She made the below video in cooperation with The Center for Freedom and Prosperity to explain, graphically, everything we need to know about poverty in America.
Hadley's video was posted today at Big Government.com, by Dan Mitchell of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, who added the following to his post:
Last but not least, the video doesn’t address every issue in great detail, and there are three additional points that should be added to any discussion of poverty.
1. The biggest beneficiaries of the current system are the army of bureaucrats that receive very comfortable salaries administering various programs.
2. The Obama Administration is looking to re-define poverty in a way that would expand the welfare state and increase the burden of redistribution programs.
3. The welfare reform legislation of the 1990s was a small step in the right direction because it eliminated a federal entitlement and shifted responsibility back to the state level. This success story should be replicated for programs such as Medicaid.
This last point is worth emphasizing because it is also one of the core messages of the video. The federal government has done a terrible job dealing with poverty. The time has come to get Washington out of the racket of income redistribution.
