2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Used To Talk About How The People On Welfare Were “No Longer Deadbeats”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/hillary-clinton-used-to-talk-about-how-the-people-on-welfare#.uvlnZQ2OmIn the 1990s and early 2000s, Hillary Clinton touted the success of Bill Clintons 1996 overhaul of the countrys welfare system, framed as the transition from dependency to dignity a subject she hasnt spoken much about this year during her campaign.
Some Hillary quotes:
too many ... had known nothing but dependency all their lives.
transition from dependency to dignity.
substitute dignity for dependence.
Now that weve said these people are no longer deadbeatstheyre actually out there being productivehow do we keep them there?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)That's your method for controlling unruly PoC.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Let's kick everyone off welfare. Big banks. Energy corporations. The "intelligence community."
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)mmmmmmkay.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)If she was talking about white people she'd call them "hard working".
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)I took that comment as sarcasm against people who Hillary knows refers to welfare recipients as "deadbeats." And yes, there was a movement during the Clinton administration called "welfare to work" through which many...white and black female heads of households were very grateful. Many were able to get jobs and get as start at making a better life for themselves and their families. Was everyone on welfare able to do this...NO. And there were more who didn't benefit than those that did for various reasons. The women I knew who were helped into the workforce (3) are eternally grateful for the chance it gave them.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)jfern
(5,204 posts)DEADBEAT!!!!!!!