US government handouts

[Jimmie Higgins]

Can people please list some new US "welfare-state" programs enacted by the federal government in the last 25 years? I don't mean only the dole, just any new program designed to be "pro-worker" or "pro-poor" that don't have any other strings attached - you know, what the right wing calls "socialism". Personally I can't think of any after Nixon.

Could people also list pro-corporate legislation in that same time period?

Things like the telecom bill or the tarp bailout and so on.

[danyboy27]

well, i dont know much about america, but certain cities had acces to social housing programs. i think bud might be more usefull than me to talk about those since he own one.

[Raúl Duke]

Well in PR some federal funding under a certain bill of the Obama administration provided a work-program which hired teenagers and young adults into local government positions, non-profits, and some local businesses. Although I don't know the extent of this work-program, but I know it was active in at least one municipality on the island and I took part in the program working at a NPO related/connected to HUD. (Housing and Urban Development Agency)

[Jimmie Higgins]

Thanks Dr. Duke.

I think this is my new reply when conservatives say that the "government is socialist!" I just ask them to name the programs that passed and just see if they can name as many of these as I can name pro-corporate bills off the top of my head.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

HIPPA was created in 1996
SCHIP was created in 1997
TANF was created in 1997 (but was brought in with this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Work_Opportunity_Act) piece of right wing junk)

Really though more money is spent on corporate welfare than the welfare that is doled out to low income families and it ain't even close.

[Die Neue Zeit]

"Business welfare" directed at worker cooperative formations isn't necessarily a bad thing.