2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary called people on welfare "deadbeats" [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)were made into "deadbeats" by Hillary and Bill. We did not have REAL jobs. We both took care of our severely disabled children 24/7 instead of placing them into much more expensive institutions. We lived on welfare so that we could be home to do this unreal job.
The difference for I and the black mother was that I lived in MN and they acted immediately when they realized that I and others like me would be forced to "get a REAL job". MN made deadbeats like me an exception to Hillary's and Bill's welfare reform. I got to stay home and take care of my child for 45 years but never was it ever considered a REAL job.
The mother in NC got to be famous. She was on the Dan Rather News show crying while her child was taken out of her home by an ambulance crew to live out the rest of his/her life in one of those expensive institutions. And I am assuming that the mother may have gotten a REAL job. Maybe taking care of someone else's child. And Hillary was satisfied - the NC mother was no longer a deadbeat. Supposedly Hillary had succeeded helping at least one woman and child. As the other mother in this story I doubt it.
I will never forgive Hillary Clinton for what she did to that mother and child in NC.
And my story is only one way that the welfare reform hurt a lot of people. Both women and children.
Yes, I was one of Hillary's deadbeats - and I am damned proud of it.