Biden: "We're familiar with stories of welfare moms driving luxury cars"

[PatrickforO]

26. Everyone has 20/20 hindsight. At the time Biden was working with

the Newt-lizard and his lock step 'do-nothings'.

They wanted to rip the whole thing apart, unravel the whole New Deal. Gingrich had a giant fake tyrannosaurus skull in his office as a reminder how government can gobble up everything - or so his staffer said when I asked.

PRWORA is deeply flawed, a punitive law that punished the weak and poor, creates a permanent underclass and promotes wage slavery. The problem is that while Biden and the Dems wanted, and fought for, job training funds to be part of the new welfare reform, the Republicans held out for 'work related activities' because, by golly, those people need to EARN their welfare checks! So no training, slave labor in 'volunteer' Community Work Experience Programs and instead of looking at employment and wage outcomes, the Republicans chose a thing called 'participation rate.' Which, in effect, meant that 50% of the caseloads had to be engaged in these 'volunteer' programs and 90% of two-parent families did.

But no money for GED prep, occupational classroom training, on the job training or any of that. It was, and still is, a revolving door where they herd the people through, and since job search doesn't count toward the 'work related activity' after a very short period, it's like the old Rawhide. Keep them clients moving! (whip snapping) Rawhide!

It's disgustingly bad policy. One of the Republican horrors of the '90s.

So, yeah, Biden and the rest did fight the good fight. But they lost.