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Family Values with Melinda Cooper

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Social Conservatives Never Had a Problem With Welfare Spending

Neo liberalism is not just a project of shrinking the state, but one that's focused on remaking it to serve particular ends. The whole system for tracking down biological fathers cost so much money and that money could easily just be diverted to a woman on welfare who desperately hates it and her children. Ah, but no, the disciplinary a purpose cani takes priority when there's all this money that's expended.

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