Obama Scheduled to Spend more on Welfare than Entire Iraq War

As many people in our country have been surprised at the cost of the Iraq war how could it be possible that Obama can find a way to spend even more money on welfare?  But that is just what he plans to do.  Even though throughout his campaigning he complained about the reckless spending of the Bush administration, and how much it would cost our children in the future.  The entire Iraq war cost $622 Billion and Obama’s welfare spending for this year alone is set to cost us $888 billion.

According to CNS News

“Obama’s spending proposals call for the largest increases in welfare benefits in U.S. history, according to a report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. This will lead to a spending total of $10.3 trillion over the next decade on various welfare programs. These include cash payments, food, housing, Medicaid and various social services for low-income Americans and those at 200 percent of the poverty level, or $44,000 for a family of four. Among that total, $7.5 trillion will be federal money and $2.8 trillion will be federally mandated state expenditures.”

Apparently Obama has changed his stance on welfare because in 1997 he opposed welfare.  From a blog on ABC News:

“I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare,” Obama said on the floor of the Illinois state Senate on May 31, 1997. “Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems.”

Welfare has become a crutch that millions of people now rely on rather than a temporary solution.  Welfare needs to be reformed to be more of a help to a productive member of society, rather than a cost to taxes payer.

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