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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ThirdEye who wrote (128624)	2/22/2001 3:51:10 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

I am not trying to prove anything. I have not studied what has happened in Wisconsin. All I am doing is showing that it can be portrayed differently than you did, and you have offered nothing substantive to prove your allegation......

To: ThirdEye who wrote (128624)	2/22/2001 4:03:13 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I decided to be compassionate, and guide you through the confusion. First, there were 34,000 families on the welfare rolls before implementing reforms, and 8,800 at the time of the survey. Thus, the number of "leavers" is 25,200. He does not specify how many who held jobs "sometime" held them at the time of the survey, but says "most". That indefinite number is then characterized thus: 80% work 30 hours or more. But the key number is this: of the "leavers", that is, the 25,200, 70% say that life is better. Yes, that sounds like success. And it also sounds like you either didn't even try to read the thing correctly, or are incompetent with figures......