Didn't Clinton 'FIX' welfare?

[RethugAssKicker]

Isn't it now much more difficult to ge on welfare longer than a year. Don't they have to work after 1 or 2 years.... Isn't the age of generational-welfare over?... IF so, WTF are regressive people still talking about welfare queens etc..?

[central scrutinizer]

1. No, Newt Gingrich did that

Clinton just signed the bill, after vetoing several less Draconian versions, as part of his "triangulation strategy" to adopt the entire Republican agenda prior to the 1996 election.

[EFerrari]

3. That's right. Since the pittance we "gave" to poor people

made such a huge difference to our Defense budget, the good old boys "fixed" welfare.

Now we should have no more "welfare queens".

:eyes:

[Mr_Spock]

4. That's not the way I saw it at all

I remember Clinton promoting/talking about the need for welfare reform. Are you sure he was an unwilling participant?

[DBoon]

2. Heck, they are still red-baiting us

They still make accusations of "Communism", 15 years after the Soviet Union collapsed and when they only domestic communists are living out their last days in a nursing home.

[EFerrari]

5. And we still fall for it. n/t

[RethugAssKicker]

6. Yes we do... Unbelievable huh?

[jwirr]

7. The work part is not the problem as many states

required people to sign up for jobs in order to qualify years before the "reform". What is really the problem is the 6 year life limit. This means that the young person in your community who is "a little slow" and works at one of those minimum wage jobs will lose any supplements to their meager wages after 6 years. This usually includes what used to be called AFDC and medical health care coverage under Medicaid. They still can get food stamps in most states. Many states have legislated exceptions to the 6 year limit such as a parent who is needed in the home to care for a disabled child. However with the squeeze that the bushie cuts to state welfare shares it is likely that states themselves will have to cut some of these people also.

It is time to wake people up to the fact that if the feds stop paying their share then the buck passes to the state and then the state passes it on to the county. Much of the county cost are paid by real estate taxes and that is where it will end.