Show A Critical Look Former Health Education Secretary Senator Abraham has used an interesting analogy to emphasize the waste in the governments government's numerous poverty programs waste programs waste that he lays directly at atthe the doorstep of Congress He observes that some 31 billion will wUI willbe be spent this year at t all levels of government government government govern govern- ment on poverty programs And yet he adds it is questionable whether any ny of those programs have removed a single person from poverty It might be intriguing intriguing for senators to contemplate that if we eliminated all these programs and bureaucracies and divided that 31 billion billion bil bil- lion among the people who are under the poverty line every family of four would receive a total of almost 1000 over the poverty line lirie We would eliminate eliminate elim elm mate poverty completely in America America It it itis is incumbent upon us in the Senate to be much more critical of the actual performance performance performance mance of many of the programs we pass Senator remarks help to explain why welfare has become a issue of transcendental importance |