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My fellow Americans, Americans always have cared about the less fortunate. And I'm sure it'll deeply gladden the hearts of many of you to know the kind of progress we've made during the past six and a half years in helping the poor.
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Oh boy. Sorry. I know. I know that voice. But we'll get through this together.
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It's now common knowledge that our welfare system has itself become a poverty trap, a creator and reinforcer of dependency.
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There it is. It's common knowledge if you are on the right and you want to take away as many social services from American citizens as possible in order to give tax break to your millionaire billionaire and now trillionaire friends.
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That's why last year in my State of the Union message I called for an overhaul of our welfare system. Since that time, I've sent to Congress a carefully designed package of proposals that rejects the old federal approach of sweeping solutions dictated from Washington. The central point of our new proposal is outlined in our earlier study up from Dependency and now embodied in our legislative proposal. The Low Income Opportunity Improvement act is a provision that will allow states and localities to test new ideas for reducing welfare dependency.
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Dependency is doing so much heavy lifting in this. We'll get into that. That also it wasn't a study. The word study has a specific meaning when it comes to the social sciences. This was an administration document produced by the Reagan administration to propel their feelings on social services into legislation. That's what they were going for there. A study would have been conducted by an independent agency. And that from dependency document he references there is not what that is.
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We must also reform work requirements so that long gaps in school or in other work related experiences no longer occur. And so too work opportunities for AFDC recipients must be expanded.
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There's what I was waiting for. Work requirements. It sounds so logical, right? Everyone wants to partake in the dignity of work. We should all earn our living. We all have the same opportunities, don't we? So of course we should all partake in work to earn earn our benefits and not be relying on the state. The reason I'm clipping Ronald Reagan from the White House and his radio address from August 1, 1987 here is because that of the term and the concept of work requirements which you might have heard over the past year coming from RFK Jr. As it relates to both SNAP benefits and to Medicaid. He has been on that for a while, but in the past month he's really, really been hammering that message home alongside USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and Mehmet Oz. That's what I want to get into today, because there is a clean, unbroken line from Reaganomics through to today's Project 2025 agenda of removing as many Americans from social services as possible. Now, this phenomenon predates Reaganomics. He was only picking up where the Heritage foundation started in the early 70s and even before that. These are all attempts by the right to gut New Deal era reforms as much as possible. The biggest difference is that Kennedy uses the wellness language of MAHA to present his arguments. He couches the conservative foundation of it in very familiar language if you are paying attention during Reagan, because Reagan was very much about putting health care and the state of someone's health on the individual. The bootstrapping mentality. That is an old conservative idea because again, you don't want to have to disentangle all of the racist and misogynist policies that went into what would become great disparities in healthcare that we continue to experience to this day. Rather than reflect on that and make policies and push forward legislation that would address those sorts of issues, it's much easier to say, if you're in poor health, it's your fault. It's not a systemic problem. Kennedy has been carrying that torch ever since Trump shepherded him into MAGA 2.0. And one thing I've pointed out repeatedly on this podcast is how MAHA fans have never understood how Kennedy is just a wolf in sheep's clothing for the Project 2025 agenda. That's what I want to look at today. The line from Reaganomics era work requirements as a way to gut social services through to what Kennedy is currently doing. I'm Derek Barris, and you're listening to a conspirituality bonus episode, RFK Jr. Reboots Reaganomics. Let's get into it. You've been listening to a Conspirituality Bonus Episode episode sample. To continue listening, please head over to patreon.com conspirituality where you can access all of our main feed episodes ad free, as well as four years of bonus content that we've been producing. You can also subscribe to our bonus episodes via Apple subscriptions. As independent media creators, we really appreciate your support.
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