Press Release: Hillary Clinton's support for "the biggest betrayal of children and the poor"

[Mufaddal]

This PDF, about Hillary's work on the 1996 welfare "reform" legislation, was included as a link in today's press release, and it should be spread far and wide:

https://berniesanders.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Poverty.pdf

In 1996, Hillary Clinton supported legislation that the New York Times wrote allowed President Bill Clinton to “deliver on his pledge to ‘end welfare as we know it.’” The bill drew “howls of protests from liberals.” In the wake of its implementation, the number of families living in poverty who received cash assistance — those who need it most — dropped from 68 families out of 100 in 1996 to only 23 per 100 in 2014.

Yet in her 2003 book, Hillary Clinton wrote that:

“It was a critical first step to reforming our nation’s welfare system. I agreed that he should sign it and worked hard to round up votes for its passage — though he and the legislation were roundly criticized by some liberals, advocacy groups for immigrants and most people who worked with the welfare system.”

[grasswire]

1. yes, she brought those poor folk to heel.

hungry children,too

[BernieforPres2016]

2. Most people who worked in the welfare system opposed it

but what the hell did they know?

[JackInGreen]

3. Oh, Muf

Don't you realize that these unwarranted and demeaning statements of fact have to stop if you're going to convince the cool kids to like you? Fiction, we're supposed to deal in fiction! Try this...ahem

"First lady clinton was instrumental in freeing people from the victim hood of welfare into a brighter freer society of wealthy every one (except the lazy and people that wanted free stuff). No one complained, the howls of praise came from all of the right parts of the new progressive party, while the only objectors were high on powdered unicorn smegma and Mrs.Wagners pies. Everyone lived happily ever after."

See? I...I can... ....nope, made my gorge rise.
Well, I tried.

[Mufaddal]

4. LOL

That's pretty good. Her spin room should hire you!

[JackInGreen]

5. Thank you!

There for a minute I wss worried someone would take it seriously and alert on it, though I don't doubt there's a fan squad on it as we speak.

[Jitter65]

6. And why not quote the entire passages from the book. There were reasons why this bill passed

while two other similar bills were vetoed by Bill Clinton. If Bernie can explain away his reasons for voting for the bill, perhaps you should allow Hillary to explain why she supported it. And yes, there was a lot of howling about that bill and close friends and colleagues has big falling-outs. But that didn't prevent Hillary from working for many of the policies designed to help blacks and other minorities.

[Mufaddal]

7. Bernie voted against the 1996 workfare bill

and repeatedly explained why. If you'd like to give some of Hillary's justifications for jockeying for it (beyond helping the poor no longer be "deadbeats&quot , you're certainly welcome to.

NAFTA + Welfare "Reform" + Mass Incarceration were the triple whammy against the working class, poor, and vulnerable that marked the Clinton years: export jobs, cut benefits, and punish the natural increase in petty crime with a massive expansion of the private prison system.

[eridani]

8. Linking Clinton Policies to Poverty, Sanders Lays Out Plan to Help Nation's Poor

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/24/linking-clinton-policies-poverty-sanders-lays-out-plan-help-nations-poor

In a speech linking policies supported by Hillary Clinton to economic hardships of U.S. children, families, and workers, Bernie Sanders on Wednesday laid out his anti-poverty agenda in Columbia, South Carolina.

Noting that the U.S. "today has the highest poverty rate of nearly any major country on earth because almost all of the new wealth and income is going to the people on top," Sanders lambasted the 1996 welfare reform bill signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton.

"What welfare reform did in my view was to go after some of the weakest and most vulnerable people in this country," Sanders said, before highlighting Hillary Clinton's support (pdf) for the legislation as First Lady.

"During that period, I spoke out against so-called 'welfare reform' because I thought it was scapegoating people who were helpless, people who were very, very vulnerable," he continued. "Secretary Clinton at that time had a very different position on welfare reform. She strongly supported it and worked hard to round up votes for its passage."