He is not mourning Pawlenty’s rescheduling of the fund-raiser. It is a disappointment to the campaign to have to explain to the many supporters who were already planning to attend, however we are hoping to reschedule in the near future.

yet the titular welfare might be suggested to mean something different than handouts to indigents.

What if the word welfare in this context means the availability to opportunity? The courage to try. The ability to fail OR succeed. This is welfare too, a much kinder gentler welfare than handouts and a dependent societal function of monetary wealth redistribution.

I ask again. Where is the “independence” in the Minnesota Independent??? All I read here is left wing trash.

You guys can’t seem to rise above the dialectic.

The ability of the people to have an opportunity afforded to them to fail or succeed would also constitute “welfare” of the people.

Nice of you to omit this synonym of the word you chose to wrap around this article.