PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: …Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, in Philadelphia to discuss President Obama’s State of the Union message, said the asset test “is not going to save the commonwealth a single dime,” and would, in fact, cost the state money to implement….
Mayor Nutter, at a City Hall news conference with Vilsack, was more pointed.
“This is one of the most mean-spirited, asinine proposals to come out of Harrisburg in decades,” he said. “I literally cannot understand what problem they are trying to solve.” … (more)