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Giuliani on Welfare: The Height of Unintentional Comedy

November 28th, 2007

By Matthew Lee Anderson

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?

Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.