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

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40. we don't play these games with people's lives anymore, at least Dems don't

...but this was bipartisan abuse of the poor and working poor, with policy advanced by BOTH parties which penalized people for asking the government for help because someone, somewhere committed fraud, some infinitesimal number of the total helped by our social service resources.

It was a fraud committed against poor Americans by our elected officials to win elections, lingered in mainstream political rhetoric and policy until Democrats using the defaming rhetoric (mostly moderates like Joe Lieberman) were the only ones left emboldened enough to openly bash the poor for getting government aid.

It was a shameful point in history. I followed Jesse Jackson and other liberal activists in opposing every instance and instigation of that era's politician's denigration and assault on vulnerable families and individuals who dared ask for help from our government.


August 28, 1996
Liberal icons Jesse Jackson and Mario Cuomo last night criticized President Clinton over welfare reform as Democrats deliberately spotlighted their party's split personality midway through the 1996 Democratic National Convention.

"Many of us ... believe that the risk to children was too great to justify the action of signing that bill, no matter what its political benefits," Cuomo said of the new welfare law.
https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1996-08-28-3103577-story.html