2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Too bad that Hillary fucked over the org she went under cover for. They disavowed her. [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)you don't to claim an accomplishment if the welfare rolls are empty because you threw people that were legitimately receiving benefits and should have continued to receive benefits off the welfare rolls.
People didn't stop receiving benefits because they found employment or stopped needing benefits...they stopped receiving benefits because Bill Clinton's "welfare reform" was little more than middle-class placation and yet another example of the Clintons fucking-over the poor. They didn't improve shit...they made the situation worse, claimed an accomplishment and hoped nobody noticed they weren't actually governing well, governing by the Democratic values they paid lip-service to, or being decent to people that needed a little human decency.
Bill Clinton was the most-insidious Republican President of my lifetime and Hillary isn't going to be any better. Let's be fair and call the Clintons what they really are: class-warriors for the oligarchy. Let's be doubly-fair and call their ardent supporters what they really are too: quislings for the class-warriors of the oligarchy.