They allow him to go on using the radical rhetoric of tough-love welfare reform, thus impressing out-of-city voters, without actually putting more people on to the streets and so probably upsetting voters in the city.
Honest to God, Fournier's continued employment is proof that America loves welfare programs.
Rather than adding more tough love for welfare recipients, he'd like to see a continued focus on lowering welfare rolls.
We work with governors to create a more humane, efficient, loving child welfare system.
Think of disaffected blue-collar workers, downscale white men who love guns, hate welfare, oppose free trade, and want higher taxes on the rich and corporations.
"The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.. Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense" [ 74].
The Conservatives are rolling out a programme of benefit proposals that owes much to the "tough love" approach of recent welfare reforms in the United States and some European countries.
The Fabian socialism of his father, reinforced by Gray's love of the British welfare state, is all but nostalgia now.
This is based on a fundamentally different philosophy, combining the "tough love" element of the welfare reform introduced in America under Bill Clinton with a payment-for-results contract with the private sector.
It says a lot about the nation's long-standing love affair with the welfare state that the main argument from opposition parties is whether that figure will prove to be enough.
While he voted for the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act in 1958, it was during the last decade of his career in office that he truly made his mark on animal welfare, his love nourished by his relationships with his dogs and his conscience pricked by cases of cruelty, especially in livestock agriculture.
