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Giuliani on Welfare: The Height of Unintentional Comedy

Written by Matthew Lee Anderson | Nov 29, 2007 3:12:41 AM

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?