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CONFIDENTIAL
SU - 11th Draft
1/22/71
- 3 -
I urge that the unfinished business of the 91st Congress be
made the first priority of the 92nd.
Congress to take action on
Over the next two weeks, I will call upon/ more than 35 pieces
of proposed legislation on which action was not completed last year.
The most important is welfare reform.
The present welfare system has become a monstrous, consuming
outrage - - an outrage against the community, against the taxpayer, and
particularly against the children it is supposed to help.
We may honestly disagree on what to do about it. But we can
all agree that we must meet the challenge not by pouring more money
into the old system, but by abolishing it and adopting a new one.
Let us place a floor under the income of every family with children
in America -- and without those demeaning, soul-stifling affronts to
human dignity that so blight the lives of welfare children today. But
let us also establish an effective work incentive and an effective work
requirement. Let us provide the means by which more can help them-
selves. Let us generously help those who are not able to help themselves.
But let us stop helping those who are able to help themselves but refuse
to do so.
CONFIDENTIAL
208
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