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To: LindyBill who wrote (44572)	5/15/2004 1:31:39 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

The conservative approach is to give the bucks to the people involved more directly and cut overhead. So, a "compassionate conservative" program is a cost-effective liberal program. Okey dokey. The core of the "compassioniate conservatism" is to turn the programs over to church groups in an attempt to get people off welfare by changing their lives. It's always hard to tell with these programs if the program as proposed is the objective or whether it's intended to be a step towards some ultimate objective. Just like the changes in social security. Hard to tell if the ultimate objective is to get rid of it or merely to get more individual participation and control into it. This homeless proposal is really a liberal program. Federal money, Federal control. As you suggest, it may be just a first step with the next step being Federal money, church control. I am dubious about that as an objective but not entirely closed to it. What I'm more dubious about is stepwise implementation a step at a time. I like to know where I'm headed. I'm not going to be happy about any welfare program that retains the notion of Federal responsibility for such things. Whether any of these baby steps leads to elimination of Federal responsibility is iffy. Even if that is what's intended, a big "if," the feasibility of stepwise evolution is dicey given how fickle momentum is. Color me skeptical.