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Gore/Clinton Keep Poor in Poverty

It was the Democrats who created the welfare system "as we know it"
during the time in which the Democratic Party controlled both houses of
Congress, most of the State legislatures, governorships, and almost
every major city in the country, during a period of nearly thirty-five
consecutive years.

It was the Democrats who created the welfare system so that families are
now in their fourth generation of welfare. The poor are caught in a
welfare trap, without any hope of escape.

It was the Democrats who have resisted every attempt at a meaningful
welfare reform. It was Bill Clinton who vetoed the welfare reform
legislation twice, passed it the third time, and two weeks later
declared that it was such bad legislation that everyone should re-elect
him so that he could change the legislation that he had just signed into
law!

It was only a Republican controlled Congress that created a meaningful
reform that moved people from welfare to work. The Democrats resisted
every step of the way, and are now telling the poor how cruel the
Republicans are because they forced the able-bodied to get jobs.

It is true that the Democrats need the poor to get them elected, but all
the Democrats have done in the last forty years was to vote to keep the
poor in the bondage of poverty and in the shackles of welfare.

The poor have indeed become the subservient lackeys of the Democrats
because they have been taught to fear reform, to fear the unknown, to
fear responsibility, and to fear a world of independence from
government. It is those carefully forged fears that keep the poor voting
for their Democratic slavemasters. The Democratic Party is the same
today as it was one-hundred and forty years ago. It is still the Party
of Slavery.

There is absolutely nothing compassionate about liberalism. It is indeed
the liberal Democratic Party leadership of today who works hard to
perpetuate the cycle of poverty in America.

All you liberals use the poor as a tool to get elected. Even as Lenin
had his useful idiots, so you have found the poor to be useful to you.
You keep them in shackles. You keep them in fear. You don't give a damn
about the poor, you hate the poor with a passion, you despise them.


Welfare Reform
Copyright � 2000 Public Domain

  During the campaign in 1992, Clinton and Gore spoke of "two years and
out." He was for "ending welfare as we know it."

  In his first proposed budget while in office, he proposed to increase
existing welfare programs by $110 billion over a five year period but
proposed no welfare reform.

  Clinton and Gore were FOR welfare as we know it.


  It was after the 1994 elections when the Republicans gained control of
both hoses of Congress that Clinton and Gore asked Congress to draw up
legislation that would be similiar to the successful welfare reform in
Wisconsin.

  Clinton  and Gore were AGAINST welfare as we know it.

  Clinton  and Gore submitted to Congress the Administration' s plan
which included a time limit of five years on welfare recipients. At the
end of five years, welfare recipients would then be given vouchers for
goods and services from the states.

  Clinton  and Gore were FOR welfare as we know it.

  Women who became pregnant would not be forced to abide by the five
year time limit. Thus,  women would be encouraged to have a child born
into welfare in order to extend the time limit and, more importantly,
before those mothers could be assimilated into the work force, thus
maintaining the Democratic voter base. Welfare receipients would not be
encouraged to assume personal responsibilty, but rather, the Democratic
Party program would allow irresponsibility on the part of welfare
receipients to be rewarded.

  Here then is the basis for the discussion on welfare reform: personal
responsibility versus government dependency.

  Clinton and Gore were FOR welfare as we know it.

  Clinton and Gore's proposal required Aid to Families With Dependent
Children receipients to work, but not in areas where the unemployment
rate is higher than eight percent. The word "area" was not defined, and
it remained to the Clinton/Gore Administration to draw up the area maps.
Those maps would include areas similar to the gerrymandering that takes
place in re-districting. Such maps would be drawn by Clinton and Gore
appointees who would ensure that reform would be as effective as his
five-year limit plan, that is, it would allow the greatest number of
people to continue receiving benefits indefinitly.

  Clinton and Gore were FOR welfare as we know it.

  Clinton vetoed the welfare reform legislation twice and then signed
into law the third bill that was sent to him by Congress. He said fine
words of how welfare reform was being enacted and praised the
bi-partisianship of Congress in working for a plan that was agreeable to
all. Clinton and Gore also went on to say that the administration would
grant waivers of Federal regulations to states that chose to experiment.

  Clinton and Gore were AGAINST welfare as we know it.

  The Democrats and other liberals complained that the workfare programs
(no work, no cash) that were submitted did not guarantee employment
(they appearantly wanted all welfare receipients to be hired by the
State with the benefits of union wages, job security and pensions, which
is exactly what was demanded by the liberals of New York City when Mayor
Guliani submitted his welfare reform plan). The Democrats also
complained that the programs did not have any child care and health
care.

  What the Democrats chose to overlook was that the already operational
"safety net" health programs would remain in effect. Those health
programs were neither included in nor altered by the welfare reform. To
make the accusation that the Republicans left children without heath
care was indeed one more false statement made by the Democrats, who
appearantly can not win an election without falsehood. Appearantly the
Democrats wanted to assume control of every area of state government,
even those areas that were not included in the welfare reform act or in
Federal regulations.

   A few weeks after signing the welfare reform into law, Clinton stated
that the legislation contained bad parts and that we should re-elect him
so he could make changes to it. If the legislation was that bad, he
should have vetoed it a third time and sent it back to Congress. With
that statement it became obvious that the welfare reform was a
Republican effort rather than a bi-partisan effort.

  Clintonand Gore were FOR welfare as we know it.

  Pat Moynihan, a Democrat Senator from New York, complained that one
million children would be impoverished by the welfare reform. That never
happened.

  Moynihan was FOR welfare as we know it.

  In December of 1997 the New York Times reported that national welfare
rolls had declined by 27 percent from the 14 million recipient high of
1994.

  The major network news media went looking in shelters across the
country for the three to four million people who were removed from the
welfare rolls under the program. They failed to find them. By liberal
political mythology, they just disappeared without a trace, and neither
the liberals nor the news media continued the search.

  In 1999, Clinton signed an Executive Order that would raise the
Federal "poverty level" to just over $19,000 income per year. It was
approximately a 30 % increase in the poverty level. His order was
without discussion with Congress or with the knowledge of the American
people. He offered no evidence as a basis for such an increase. However,
the Democratic Party constituency, which includes all who are dependent
upon government programs rather than personal responsibility, was
reinstated as those who were moved off the welfare rolls and into
employment positions found themselves in a position to return once again
to government dependency, a dependency which will gather support for the
Democratic Party at election time. Clinton and Gore's own actions
demonstrate that the very purpose of welfare programs is not to help the
poor in in times of need, but rather, it is to keep the poor dependent
on welfare and dependent on government for the rest of their lives, even
to the third  and fourth family generation.

  Clinton and Gore are FOR welfare as we know it.

  Clinton and Gore will now take credit for the success of the welfare
program which they fought against, and, having stated that the program
needs changing, they will call the Republicans mean-spirited for sending
Clinton and Gore the reform plan for approval.

"continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral
disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre." -
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1935