Opinion | I got a COVID-19 test in five minutes, and the results came in two hours thanks to New York City's massive public funding. Imagine if everything could be this easy. By _pem_pem.
— someone who would take advantage of handouts to live large — was born. The motive behind this disparagement was, simply, greed. By kicking people off welfare and forcing Americans to expect less from our government, politicians could afford to give money to the people who need it least — the super-rich and corporations . Theseen in the last 40 years is a direct result of gutting these programs and transferring their funding to the wealthy.
But it wasn't only Republicans who trashed government assistance. Bill Clinton campaigned for president largely on the idea that . The US has been facing a multi-decade anti-welfare campaign by politicians on both sides of the aisle.white Americans are less likely to support government assistanceBut now the anti-welfare crowd is in a conundrum. The money, assistance, and protections given to Americans during the pandemic are popular, and many Americans are
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