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welfare as an unlimited

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:44:52 +0000

In reply to Quick question - any idea how

welfare as an unlimited federal entitlement to cash assistance

That's what a civilized people do to help those in need

No one harbors deeper

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:31:01 +0000

In reply to Quick question - any idea how

No one harbors deeper contempt for Bush than I, but the fact is that without a dem president signature on the unraveling of AFDC, it would not have passed

Peter Edelman tossed his career in protest, and not on a humbug.

Like the Rolling to Re-election over the corpses of the wrongly executed (the gut habeas corpus act) fat Bill was the linchpin for a stealth Reagan Republican take over of the pro choice wing of the repugnants, aka, the democrats.

Quick question - any idea how

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:14:10 +0000

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Quick question - any idea how Bush changed Clinton welfare reform?

Seeing as this recession came 8 years into Bush's presidency, 12 years after Clinton passed his, it's a shame we can't even get basic facts straight.

Try these:

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2003/0120metropolitanpolicy_waller.aspx

http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/u/working_paper07-18.pdf

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/06/AR200608...

The new rules, written by Congress and the Bush administration, require states to focus intensely on making more poor people work, while discouraging other activities that might help untangle their lives.

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This second generation of change reverses a central idea behind the 1996 law that ended six decades of welfare as an unlimited federal entitlement to cash assistance. The law decentralized welfare, handing states a lump sum of money and the freedom to design their own programs of temporary help for poor families. Ten years later, the government is tightening the federal reins.

Many state officials and advocates are furious. "You had fixed block grants in exchange for state flexibility," said Elaine M. Ryan, deputy executive director of the American Public Human Services Association, which represents welfare directors around the country. "Now you have fixed block grants in exchange for federal micromanagement. . . . That was not the deal."

In fact, the nation's welfare rolls have been slashed sharply — from about 4.5 million to 2.1 million families — during the past six years. Roughly a third of these welfare recipients currently have jobs that require them to work a minimum of 30 hours a week. Bush wants at least 70% of welfare recipients to be employed in 40-hour-a-week jobs by 2007. This is something he thinks can be accomplished without giving states more money to cover the increased costs of child care for the welfare recipients.

But go ahead, blame Clinton if you must.

[for more, Google "Bush changes welfare reform"]

I have been driven smooth mad

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:37:52 +0000

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I have been driven smooth mad by the impact of the insane prohibition regime.

I will do anything to give cover to even the slightest glint of sanity amidst the bat-shit crazy that is Ron Paul writ large...

And, I really, really, want to stop killing people because they live near someone who talks shit about us.

And, fuck the banks.

Other then that, the man is odious.

How can anyone be wistful

rmrd0000 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:34:06 +0000

In reply to Well, of course, Ron was the

How can anyone be wistful about Ron Paul and then express concern about the poor?

Well, of course, Ron was the

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:29:16 +0000

In reply to What would cult hero Ron Paul

Well, of course, Ron was the fourth fabulous Freak Brother, and was it not Freewheelin' Frank who said, Dope will get you through times of no money, better than money will get you through times of no dope..."

And in a burst of empowerment intervention, Paul announced that henceforth, profits from the sale of his newsletter "Word toWhitey", will be plowed into second hand shopping carts, (from supermarkets flooded out by Katrina). They will be leased (not given, mind you) to the homeless for a percentage of the resulting can/recycling revenue.

The exact percentage has not been revealed, and will be negotiated on a case by case basis, to provide maximum humiliation to the lesee.

What would cult hero Ron Paul

rmrd0000 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:20:46 +0000

In reply to Ryan, Romney, Santorum:"We're here to sell some blood"

What would cult hero Ron Paul say about the plight of the poor besides relaxing drug laws so that they can drug themselves out of misery?

Distraught at losing her only

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:49:00 +0000

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Distraught at losing her only steady source of cash, she asked the children if they would be ashamed to help her collect discarded cans.

“I told her I would be embarrassed to steal from someone — not to pick up cans,” her teenage daughter said.