The Word is STUPID - One Way to Make Welfare More Popular: Use a Different Word

What is this wasteful stupidity? This idea (for a non-socialist) "Republican" governor is to reduce the size and spending of government, not grow it. Shrink it you doofus! What a putz.  m/r

One Way to Make Welfare More Popular: Use a Different Word - NationalJournal.com
By Matt Berman Updated: July 2, 2013

To save its safety net, Pennsylvania is changing the name of its Department of Public Welfare.

Pennsylvania's safety net is in trouble. State Republicans are increasingly critical of it, and, despite an increase from last year, the state's new budget doesn't boost welfare spending to the level desired by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett. But state lawmakers have a way to save Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare: Change the name.

The state House approved a bill Monday night that will gradually change the name of the department to the Department of Human Services. The department, which was awarded $11 billion in the budget approved last week, oversees a wide range of safety-net programs, from medical care to services for the elderly, the poor, and those with special needs. The name change has the support of the United Way, state Republicans, and thehead of the department. When you look at polling around "welfare," it's easy to see why.

When respondents to a June NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll were asked to identify the factor "most responsible for the continuing problem of poverty," the most popular answer given was "too much welfare that prevents initiative." 

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