Mitt, if you REALLY want fewer people to be "dependent on government"...
You could
1)Fight AGAINST globalization, which is the main reason most of those people who are "dependent" don't have private-sector jobs.
2)Push for an end to all vestiges of "redlining", the practice of denying insurance and credit to whole neighborhoods and in some cases whole regions(which is almost as significant a reason for people not having private-sector jobs).
3)Work to strengthen the labor movement, so that those who DO have jobs will actually get paid enough to support themselves and their families from their share of the wealth their labor created.
4)Push through single-payer healthcare, so that single parents raising kids on their own could actually get off benefits and take the jobs that do exist(underpaid as they are and without the benefits that everyone morally deserves).
5)Work for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a RIGHT to a job.
Doing those things would massively reduce the number of people receiving government assistance and revitalize some of the poorest areas of the country.
Any chance you'll consider doing ANY of those things, Mittens? Or would ya rather just talk trash about most of the country?
