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Authors: Donald Trump

2
Ed Feulner, “A better way to reform welfare,”
Washington Times
, April 5, 2011,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/5/a-better-way-to-reform-welfare/
.
3
Katherine Bradley, “Confronting the Unsustainable Growth of Welfare Entitlements: Principles of Reform and the Next Steps,” op. cit.
4
Jack Dolan, “Welfare recipients get $12,000 from strip club ATMs,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 1, 2010,
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/01/local/la-me-welfare-20100701
.
5
Mark Weaver, “FFX Subsidized Housing Tenants Live Large On Your Dime,”
WMAL.com
,
http://www.wmal.com/Article.asp?id=2225336
.
6
Dinesh D'Souza, “10 Great Things,” National Review Online, July 2, 2003,
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/207396/10-great-things-dinesh-dsouza
.
7
Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor,” Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder
#2607, September 13, 2011,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/09/understanding-poverty-in-the-united-states-surprising-facts-about-americas-poor
.
8
Ibid.
9
Robert Rector, “How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the ‘Plague' of Poverty in America,” Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder
#2604,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/08/how-poor-are-americas-poor-examining-the-plague-of-poverty-in-america
.
10
“The Father Factor,” National Fatherhood Initiative,
http://www.fatherhood.org/media/consequences-of-father-absence-statistics
.
12
Robert Rector, “Marriage: America's Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty,” Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder
#2465, September 16, 2010,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/marriage-america-s-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty
13
Katherine Bradley, “Confronting the Unsustainable Growth of Welfare Entitlements: Principles of Reform and the Next Steps,” op. cit.
14
Ibid.
15
Ibid.
16
Ed Feulner, “A Better Way to Reform Welfare,”
Washington Times
, April 5, 2011,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/5/a-better-way-to-reform-welfare/
.
17
Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor,” op. cit.
18
James Bovard, “The Food-Stamp Crime Wave,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 23, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304657804576401412033504294.html
.
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid.
21
Ibid.
22
Jason Stein, “State takes 1,200 Milwaukee County inmates off FoodShare,” JSOn-line. com, September 24, 2011,
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/130511318.html
.
23
Dawson Bell, “Michigan wants lotto winner off food stamps,”
USA Today
, May 19, 2011,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-05-19-lottery-winner-food-stamps_n.htm
.
24
Scott Shifrel, “$8 million food stamp fraud mastermind pleads guilty to scam,” New York Daily News, August 10, 2011,
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-08-10/news/29890597_1_food-stamp-mail-fraud-guilty-plea
.
25
Craig Schneider and Tammy Joyner, “Housing crisis reaches full boil in East Point; 62 injured,”
AJC.com
, August 11, 2010,
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/housing-crisis-reaches-full-589653.html
.
26
Katherine Bradley, “Confronting the Unsustainable Growth of Welfare Entitlements: Principles of Reform and the Next Steps,” op. cit.
27
Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor,” op. cit.
28
“A Sad Day for Poor Children,”
New York Times
, August 1, 1996.
29
Ed Feulner, “A Better Way to Reform Welfare,” op. cit.
30
Ibid.
31
“The Welfare Reform Act of 2011,” RSC,
http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/Solutions/wra.htm
; and Katherine Bradley, “Picking Up Where '96 Welfare Reform Left Off,” National Review Online, March 17, 2011,
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/262372
.
32
“H.R. 1167: Welfare Reform Act of 2011,” Republican Study Committee, March 2011,
http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Summary_WelfareReformAct.pdf
.
33
Michael Peltier, “Florida to test all welfare recipients for drugs,” Reuters, May 31, 2011,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/31/us-florida-welfare-drugs-idUSTRE74U6W320110531
.
34
Ibid.
35
“Florida government defends requiring drug tests for welfare recipients,” CNN News Blogs, June 5, 2011,
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/florida-government-defends-requiring-drug-tests-for-welfare-recipients/
.
36
Michael Peltier, “Florida to test all welfare recipients for drugs,” op. cit.
Chapter Eight
1
Lydia Saad, “Cost Is Foremost Healthcare Issue for Americans,” Gallup, September 23, 2009,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/123149/cost-is-foremost-healthcare-issue-for-americans.aspx
.
2
Melissa Allison, “Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround,”
Seattle Times
, March 12, 2011,
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014461881_starbucks13.html
.
4
Ibid.
5
Sally Pipes, “The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal Of ObamaCare,” Forbes, September 19, 2011,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2011/09/19/the-best-jobs-program-full-repeal-of-obamacare/
.
6
Sam Baker, “HHS grants 106 new healthcare waivers,”
The Hill
Healthwatch, August 19, 2011,
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/177581-hhs-grants-106-new-healthcare-waivers
.
7
Milton R. Wolf, “Obamacare waiver corruption must stop,”
Washington Times
, May 20, 2011,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/20/obamacare-waiver-corruption-must-stop/
.
8
Grace-Marie Turner, James C. Capretta, Thomas P. Miller, and Robert E. Moffit,
Why Obamacare is Wrong for America
(New York: Broadside, 2011), 45.
9
Julian Pecquet and Sam Baker, “Spotlight back on healthcare law,”
The Hill
Healthwatch, September 27, 2011,
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/184293-spotlight-back-onto-health-law
.
10
John Merline, “ObamaCare's Growing List Of Broken Promises,”
Investors.com
, October 5, 2011,
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587194/201110051841/ObamaCares-Broken-Promises.aspx
.
11
Robert J. Samuelson, “Stuck in a vicious health-care cost circle,”
Washington Post
, September 29, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/stuck-in-a-vicious-health-care-cost-circle/2011/09/29/gIQAPoFd7K_blog.html
.
12
“Health Reform Will Create 400,000 Jobs ‘Almost Immediately,'” ReaClearPolitics. com, February 25, 2010,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/02/25/pelosi_health_reform_will_create_400000_jobs_almost_immediately.html
.
13
Grace-Marie Turner, “ObamaCare's job-killing impact is just getting started,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 1, 2010,
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-04-01/news/ct-oped-0402-business-20100401_1_drug-benefits-drug-program-tax-change
.
14
Examiner Editorial, “Obamacare would hurt small business,”
Washington Examiner
, July 12, 2009,
http://washingtonexaminer.com/editorials/2009/07/obamacare-would-hurt-small-business
.
15
Sally Pipes, “The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal Of ObamaCare,” op. cit.
16
J. Lester Feder & Kate Nocera, “CBO: Health law to shrink workforce by 800,000,”
Politico
, February 10, 2011,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49273.html
.
17
Kathryn Nix, “House Education and Workforce Committee: Obamacare Is a Job Killer,” Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, February 17, 2011,
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/17/house-education-and-workforce-committee-obamacare-is-a-job-killer/
.
18
John Merline, “ObamaCare's Growing List Of Broken Promises,” op. cit.
19
Marissa Cevallos, “One in three employers may drop health benefits, report says,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 7, 2011,
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/07/news/la-heb-healthcare-employer-20110607
.
20
Examiner Editorial, “Scary truth about Obamacare keeps seeping out,”
Washington Examiner
, September 25, 2011,
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2011/09/scary-truth-about-obamacare-keeps-seeping-out
.
21
Jeffrey H. Anderson, “CBO: Obamacare Would Cost Over $2 Trillion,”
Weekly Standard
, March 18, 2010,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/blogs/cbo-obamacare-would-cost-over-2-trillion
.
22
Editorial, “The Uninsured,”
New York Times
, August 22, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23sun1.html?pagewanted=print
.
23
Betsy McCaughey,
Obama Health Law: What It Says And How to Overturn It
(New York: Encounter Books, 2010), 15.
24
Ibid., 50.
25
The Honorable Tom Feeney, “Interstate Competition and Choice in Health Insurance: The American Way,” Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder
#2386, March 16, 2010,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/03/interstate-competition-and-choice-in-health-insurance-the-american-way
.
26
Review & Outlook, “The Competition Cure,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 23, 2009,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574360923109310680.html
. .
27
Ed Moirressey, “Tort reform the key to cutting health-care costs?”
HotAir.com
, July 30, 2009,
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/30/tort-reform-the-key-to-cutting-health-care-costs/
.
28
Ibid.
29
Jim Angle, “GOP-Proposed Tort Reform Would Reduce Health Care Costs, Analysts Say,”
FoxNews.com
, March 3, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/03/gop-proposed-tort-reform-reduce-health-care-costs-analysts-say/
.
Chapter Nine
1
“Border States Deal With more Illegal Immigrant Crime Than Most, Data Suggest,”
FoxNews.com
, April 30, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/29/border-states-dealing-illegal-immigrant-crime-data-suggests/
.
2
Jack Martin and Eric Ruark, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers,” Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), July 2010 (rev. February 2011),
http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/USCostStudy_2010.pdf?docID=4921
.
3
“Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs,” United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters, March 2011,
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf
.
4
Solomon Moore, “Study Shows Sharp Rise in Latino Federal Convicts,”
New York Times
, February 18, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/us/19immig.html
.
5
Ibid.
6
Terence P. Jeffrey, “Justice Department: Border Patrol Agents Assaulted Daily, Kidnappings Every 35 Hours in Phoenix, 1 in 5 Teens Using Drugs Predominantly Supplied by Mexican Traffickers,”
CNSNews.com
, April 28, 2010,
http://www.cnsnews.com/node/64910
.
7
“Al Qaeda seeks tie to local gangs,”
Washington Times
, September 28, 2004,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/sep/28/20040928-123346-3928r/
.
8
Jana Winter, “Feds Issue Terror Watch for the Texas/Mexico Border,” FoxNews. com, May 26, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/26/terror-alert-mexican-border/
.
9
Ray Walser, Ph.D., Jena Baker McNeill, and Jessica Zuckerman, “The Human Tragedy of Illegal Immigration: Greater Efforts Needed to Combat Smuggling and Violence,” Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder
#2568, June 22, 2011,
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/06/The-Human-Tragedy-of-Illegal-Immigration-Greater-Efforts-Needed-to-Combat-Smuggling-and-Violence
.
10
Caroline Black, “Illegal Immigrant Carlos Montano Charged with Killing Nun in Drunk Driving Crash,”
CBSNews.com
, August 4, 2010,
http://www.cbsnewscom/2102-504083_162-20012650.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
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