Nothing Bill Clinton said to defend his Welfare Reform is true. Source;

[SamKnause]

Huffington Post

Everything Bill Clinton said Thursday to defend his 1996 Welfare Reform Law was false.

Excellent detailed article !!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-clinton-welfare-reform_us_5707cbf4e4b0c4e26a227a34

[peacebird]

1. And when HuffPo is debunking him that quick you KNOW he stepped in it...

Everything Bill Clinton said Thursday to defend his 1996 welfare reform law was false.

Clinton claimed that he left the program with plenty of money for poor people, suggested that it helped reduce black poverty and that it was only the mean, nasty Republicans from the George W. Bush era who gutted it and hurt the poor. Clinton’s distortions of economic history and his own record are so outrageous that — you will be shocked — it is difficult to believe he was being honest.

Here’s what he told protesters at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia:

“They say the welfare reform bill increased poverty. Then why did we have the largest drop in African American poverty in history when I was president? The largest in history. What happened was, all these Republicans got into — the Supreme Court elected President Bush 5 to 4, then all these Republicans took over state legislatures. We left ‘em with enough money to take care of all the poor people who couldn’t go to work on welfare. We left ‘em with the money they had before the welfare rolls went down 60 percent. The Republicans took it away, and [these protesters are] blaming me.”
This is not true. Poverty dropped during the Clinton years not because of welfare reform, but because the entire American economy was being juiced by a massive stock market bubble. No credible economist even disputes this. The Clinton bubble was fueled by the aggressive financial deregulatory policies of Clinton and his Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan. When the stock market bubble burst, millions of people who previously would have received welfare fell into poverty.

[NWCorona]

2. Yup!

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Nailed it again.

And at the same time,Conserva-Dems and the Rethugs were amping up Welfare Queen false equivalence narrative. The final nail was the same group wiping out of ACORN,the last bastion of push back for anyone in poverty.

[dubyadiprecession]

4. Your confused, Hillary is running for president, not Bill.

[SamKnause]

5. I think it is you who is confused.

They come as a package deal.

They have controlled the Democratic Party for 2 decades.

A vote for Hillary is a vote for the same failed policies of her husband.

[99th_Monkey]

10. +10 / Yes, and especially those policies she publicly supported at the time. nt

[Luminous Animal]

9. And Hillary supported it, calling welfare recipients, deadbeats.

[Dragonfli]

11. He made his comments as a surrogate at a Clinton campaign event where he attended because

She was too busy raising money at a wall street filled fundraiser.

Since he was acting as host at a Clinton for President event, I can say it is relevant to her Campaign.
He was stumping for Hillary at the time, so, you aren't making much sense here and I am trying hard to give you the benefit of the doubt, but unless you didn't know he was stumping for Hillary at the time I can't (if you really did not know this tell me and I may reconsider your statement, that although not valid, would at least be innocent on your part due to ignorance)



Now, if he was made those comments on a golf course somewhere that had nothing to do with stumping for Hillary I would possibly agree with you.

[Lucinda]

6. For those of you willing to dig through the comments

there are many people pointing out facts that the author seems to have overlooked entirely in developing his thesis.

[DeGreg]

7. The seeds were planted long ago

Google search for the rabbit holes of doubt:

ADFA
MENA

[Ferd Berfel]

8. Go Figure

[Cheese Sandwich]

12. Welfare "reform" was a disaster. Bill turned the Dems into GOP Lite.

[Avalon Sparks]

13. The people it effected don't vote...

Unfortunately

[Cheese Sandwich]

14. Especially back then. Bill gave a speech last year admitting most of these mistakes.

He can't help himself from getting angry at people who question him.

[EndElectoral]

15. K&R