Republicans, Republicans stand before you tonight to herald the biggest change in social policy in the last 60 years, the dismantling of the welfare system by Bob Dole and the Republican Congress. 

 Led by Bob Dole, we will bring new hope, opportunity and optimism to the families enslaved by the welfare narcotic. 

But if welfare is money, and welfare is a narcotic, isn't money, therefore, a narcotic?* 

For generations, America's poor children have grown up knowing only the despair, desolation and destructiveness of welfare. 

 Today, they can grow up knowing hope, opportunity and success as they live the American dream. 

 The welfare system as Bill Clinton liked it was America's Berlin Wall, dividing the less fortunate from the rest of society and creating a permanent underclass. 

Anyone who loves his race cannot wish for it to fall into decadence. He must realise that the industriousness of the race is the first and unrelenting condition for the thriving of the race. Even the fight for freedom and self-assertion of the race must in the final instance serve the race.* 

 It relegated the poor to our inner cities, depriving them of the freedom and opportunity that the rest of society enjoyed. 

The GOP-dominated Congress decided that the Department of Housing and Urban Development needed its funds cut by 25%, and that the Section 8 housing program should not get expanded (which gave vouchers to poor people so that they didn't have to live in inner cities, thus depriving them the freedom and opportunity that the rest of society enjoyed.)  However, subsidies to the rich (the deductibility of mortgage interest independent of income or means) continues on.. even though this subsidy is larger than the operational budget of HUD in any given year.* 

 Republican governors have spent the last decade tearing down that wall and the Republican Congress finished the job by passing Bob Dole's landmark reform -- welfare-reform bill. 

 Bob Dole knows that compassion is not measured by how many people you have on welfare. 

What is still unclear to me is the motive for these murders. 

Germans themselves advance three: 

1.That they are being carried out to save food. 

2.That they are done for the purpose of experimenting with new poison gases and death rays. 

3.That they are simply the result of the extreme Nazis deciding to carry out their eugenic and sociological ideas. 

The first motive is obviously absurd, since the death of 100,000 persons will not save much food for a nation of 80 million. Besides, there is no acute food shortage in Germany. The second motive is possible, though I doubt it. Poison gases may have been used in putting these unfortunates out of the way, but if so, the experimentation was only incidental. Many Germans I have talked to think that some new gas which disfigures the body has been used, and that this is the reason why the remains of the victims have been cremated. But I can get no real evidence of this. 

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The third motive seems the most likely to me. For years a group of radical Nazi sociologists who were instrumental in putting through the Reich's sterilisation laws have pressed for a national policy of eliminating the mentally unfit. They say they have disciples among many sociologists in other lands and perhaps they have. 

Paragraph two of the form letter sent the relatives plainly bears the stamp of this sociological thinking: "In view of the nature of his serious, incurable ailment, his death, which saved him from a life long institutional sojourn, is to be regarded merely as a release." 

Some suggest a fourth motive. They say the Nazis calculate that for every 3 or 4 institutional cases, there must be one healthy German to look after them. This takes several thousand good Germans away from more profitable employment. If the insane are killed off, it is further argued by the Nazis, there will be plenty of hospital space for the war wounded should the war be prolonged and large casualties occur.* 

 It is measured by how many people you help join the work force. 

 In Wisconsin, in Wisconsin, we take great pride in knowing that we helped lay the groundwork for welfare's demise and the birth of new, more-compassionate welfare solutions. 

 We began reforming the program 10 years ago with one purpose in mind, helping families and children climb out of poverty. 

 Wisconsin provides families with the tools to escape welfare and we insist that parents, including deadbeat dads, get up in the morning, go to work, and provide for their families just like all of you and the rest of America. 

 In all, in Wisconsin, we've helped more than 40,000 families and 76,000 children escape the poverty of the welfare trap. 

 The child poverty rate in Wisconsin dropped by 13 percent under our welfare reforms and Wisconsin has consistently been one of the 10 most compassionate states as far low rates in child poverty. 

Over the next decade, it will become broadly accepted by the cognitive elite that the people we now refer to as the underclass are in that condition through no fault of their own but because of inherent shortcomings about which little can be done.  It will be agreed that the underclass cannot be trusted to use cash wisely. Therefore policy will consist of greater benefits, but these will be primarily in the form of services rather than cash.* 

 Families leaving welfare are now averaging $5,000 more per year than they received while on it. And with Bob Dole's economic plan, they will be able to receive even more. 
 Clearly, it is work that pays in America, not welfare. 

 And we, we in Wisconsin, we wanted to do even more to protect our children by allowing the working poor to buy into our comprehensive health-care system ensuring that each and every child in America and Wisconsin had quality medical coverage. 

Allowing the poor to buy in?  Isn't that a contradiction?* 

 But you know what Bill Clinton said, he said no, and he walked away from Wisconsin's children. 

 Twice he vetoed meaningful welfare reform bills. And only when the pollsters spoke did he respond to the American people and to our poor children. 

 President Dole, he won't walk away from our children and he won't hide behind them. 

 And President Dole, he will never waiver in his support for welfare reform. 

A real restoration to health of the race cannot be begun without generous measures and the organisation of social-racial hygiene; but these are mostly only introduced when the racial hygienic idea has become the popular knowledge of the population or at least of the mental leaders. These must first develop a feeling for the senselessness of a civilisation which allows the race to decay, an order of society and economics which has no regard for the interests of eternal life, which in fact is often detrimental.* 

 America's Republican governors they're going to be there for Bob Dole -- governors who understand what's wrong with the old system -- governors like Montana's Mark Racicot. 

 Thanks to Republican governors, a Republican Congress, and most importantly, Bob Dole, the American people are ending welfare as we know it. 

And replacing it with.....?* 

 And we're doing it, and we're doing it because of great Americans like my dear friend, Eloise Anderson, the director of California's Department of Social Services. 

 Before Gov. Wilson recruited her away, Eloise served as my welfare advisor and helped make Wisconsin's reforms a success. 

 America should heed her powerful message. 

 Thank you very much, Eloise. 

 In Milwaukee, another remarkable woman knows what it is to reach for the American dream. 

 Nicole Smith, she not only pulled herself off of welfare, she's now helping others do the same. 

 Ladies and gentlemen, a woman who should make all Americans proud joining us tonight in the Wisconsin delegation -- Nicole Smith. 

 Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, the man to whom America owes so much, he wisely observed that government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves. 

But I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power  from outer space, from another planet....* 

 The liberals, they talk about protecting our children and lifting them from poverty, about caring and helping, but how can anyone look at 60 years of this system and call it caring? 

And if there were ever really one healthy man among the cripples, he used up all his strength just to keep the others on their feet, and in this way he himself was crippled...* 

 And how can anyone, how can anyone look at generations crushed by welfare and call it helping? 

 In the war on poverty, the Clinton administration, has dodged the draft. Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton said he would end welfare as we know it. But it took Bob Dole and the Republican Congress to do it. 

 I say to America, I say to America, let us end the Clinton presidency as we know it. 

 Thank you so very much. Thank you Wisconsin. Thank you.