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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders talks campaign's next steps after White House visit [View all]turbinetree
(26,754 posts)the 1994 bill that was signed had cuts to social programs and 'welfare" programs and made it harder for human beings to qualify, and this was the beginning of a litmus test that has only grown as each year passes, one has to look no further than seeing a mother or a father on a street corner with a sign saying "Homeless". Or a mother and father not making enough and needing the government, you and me to help
My concept of progressive is that if you pay into the system , which we all do, then, those that get caught on that street corner, or not making enough deserve my society and country's help, not the other way around and this the word "welfare", should not have been used.
A person that was running the country in 1994 signed that bill-------that is a fact-------------it could have been vetoed---------------it was not
That was not, what Francis Perkins idea of what welfare stands for, and it did not mean to cut and gut a programs, she is the person that created the most of the social programs in this country---------------which are under attack.
Have a nice day---------------