He will tell you this is not bigotry, just aggressive law enforcement -- though Mr. Tancredo opposed President Bush's effort to restore food stamps to legal immigrants on grounds it would encourage welfare-seekers to flood America.
Its task would include harmonising taxes and encouraging welfare systems to converge upwards.
Nahles argued the ruling would only encourage "social welfare tourism" and said municipalities who were responsible for paying unemployment benefits were unfairly burdened by the estimated €800m (£720m) a year spent on the 130,000 EU citizens currently registered as jobseekers.
The Catalan decision has encouraged animal welfare groups to protest more forcefully in Spain and in southern France, where about 100 bullfights are held each year.
A sense of group identity has been further encouraged by welfare, social security and other laws that place people with various disabilities in a single category, even if they define that category in different ways.
The ASPCA encourages animal welfare organizations to apply for grant funding to help offset costs associated with animal rescue, care, relief and re-homing following Hurricane Sandy.
The state contended that it was trying to reduce the cost of public assistance and to encourage women on welfare to make responsible choices.
But this time reforms to encourage long-term welfare claimants (including single parents) into work will tend to push up the claimant count, points out Mr Gregg.Those reforms look spectacularly ill-timed (see article).
But he will stick to his efforts to trim bureaucracy, encourage entrepreneurship, discourage welfare dependency, undermine the unions and boost competition.Most Europeans want to hear reassuring noises about the state taking matters in hand and curbing capitalist excess.
The aim is to save billions of pounds, make the system fairer, and encourage people off welfare and into work, says the government.
