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Clinton's welfare reform bill, which was signed on Aug. 22, 1996, obliterated the nation's social safety net. It threw 6 million people, many of them single mothers, off the welfare rolls within three years. It dumped them onto the streets without child care, rent subsidies and continued Medicaid coverage. Families were plunged into crisis, struggling to survive on multiple jobs that paid $6 or $7 an hour, or less than $15,000 a year. But these were the lucky ones. In some states, half of those dropped from the welfare rolls could not find work. Clinton slashed Medicare by $115 billion over a five-year period and cut $25 billion in Medicaid funding.
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Actually, welfare reform was a part of the Contract With America by the republican majorities in Congress. Bill Clinton likes to claim credit for welfare reform, but in all reality is was a conservative idea put into motion by conservatives, and ultimately became a reality because of conservatives.
This professor clearly does not understand the concept of smaller government, and whines and complains about people getting off welfare rolls rather than realizing that they joined the work force and accepted personal responsibility for their own financial welfare.
Slashing entitlement programs decreases the dependency on them by Americans, shrinks the control of the government, and ultimately leads to a greater America because the unemployed are forced to actually earn their living rather than living off other taxpayers hard earned dollars.
So while Mr. Kaatz appears to be compassionate about the poor and needy, he is actually supporting a cause that is to the deteriment of the poor, forcing the poor to remain poor rather than making them independent and prosperous of their own accord.
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Over 800,000 jobs once handled by government employees have been outsourced to corporations, a move that has not only further empowered our shadow corporate government but helped destroy federal workforce unions.
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Oh no, more power to those evil capitalists! RUN!
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The disparity between our oligarchy and the working class has created a new global serfdom.
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LOL. I would love to hear some details about this supposed "serfdom".
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Take a look at our government departments. Who runs the Defense Department? The Department of Interior? The Department of Agriculture? The Food and Drug Administration? Who runs the Department of Labor? Corporations. And in an election year where we are numbed by absurdities, we hear nothing about this subordinating of the American people to corporate power.
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Really? Is Robert Gates the CEO of Boeing or something?
Corporate power, give me a break.
If it wasn't for the American people, there would be no corporations.
This professor talks about corporations as if they're an extension of the government's hand.
If anyone watched the congressional hearings with oil executives, they would realize that Corporate America and capitalism are furious at the feds.