Why It Matters That Hillary Supported Welfare Reform

[ljm2002]

16. "forced recipients to get work"...

...see, that is exactly the problem right there.

First: in case you haven't noticed, there isn't enough work to go around in the first place. And those on welfare are often (not always) the least trained, least qualified -- i.e., they won't be getting most jobs, and the ones they do will be the ones that don't pay a living wage.

Now combine that with single mothers who are forced to go to work -- work that doesn't even pay enough to cover their child care expenses, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Do some people game the system? Yes, of course. There is not a system devised by mankind that someone has not figured out how to game. As I said in my previous response to you, though, we would gain much more by going after the big gamers -- corporations, banks, the MIC and the very wealthy -- and we would not be inflicting suffering on any of them, except for the suffering they get when they see their bottom line reduced by a few percentage points, which will not affect the quality of their lives one damned bit.

JHFC I am sick of people defending this shit. And on DEMOCRATIC Underground, no less. My my, how the times have changed. Used to be, most of us here had actual liberal / progressive values.