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# Giuliani on Welfare: The Height of Unintentional Comedy
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/giuliani-on-welfare-the-height-of-unintentional-comedy/
- Published: 2007-11-29T03:12:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T21:20:40.000Z
- Description: Giuliani on Welfare: The Height of Unintentional Comedy
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson, Uncategorized

What I've seen of tonight's debate is not so inspiring. But Rudy Giuliani hit a home run on the "unintentional comedy" scale with his remarks on welfare:

"I moved 600,000 people off of welfare during my time as mayor, most of them to jobs."

Which begs the question: what happened to the rest of those people?