RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Stubborn Welfare StateFebruary 14, 2007 The Stubborn Welfare State By Robert Samuelson WASHINGTON -- Spend a moment studying the small table below. It illuminates why another of our annual budget battles -- begun last week, when President Bush submitted his 2008 proposal -- seems so fruitless and (yes) repetitious. Every year we hear complaints about accounting gimmicks and unrealistic assumptions. There's a ferocious
