http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=230x4231Oh my.
dcsmart (252 posts) Thu Feb-05-09 12:02 PM
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Welfare vanishes as poverty soars
By Fred Goldstein
Published Feb 4, 2009 3:34 PM
As millions are being thrown out of their homes and losing their jobs, state governments are reducing the meager assistance available to the poor and unemployed.
Some 2.6 million jobs were lost in 2008. The announcement of 500,000 to 600, blahblahblah.....
CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 12:16 PM
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1. Clinton enjoyed doing this
I remember when he signed this damned thing. You could tell he enjoyed taking away what little money that some poor women had. It was after this that I never liked Bill Clinton.
To this day he still sickens me!
Thanks for nothing Bill Clinton you SOB!
Looks like somebody got cut by Bill.
izquierdista (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 12:33 PM
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2. I agree
Clinton was the best thing the Republicans had going in the '90s. Completely bobbled health care his first year so Big Pharma was safe the other 7, pushed NAFTA just like the big corporations wanted, folded like a cheap suit when Repubs wanted more money for the military. Plus, whenever the Repubs needed a whipping boy, there was ol' Bill grinning and shaking his finger. About the only thing to credit him for is actually raising taxes enough to balance a budget. However, that's not a huge accomplishment to point to, since all it takes is not swallowing the bullshit that is supply side economics.
You know, a lot of primitives use the phrase "supply side economics" as if they know what they're talking about.
It reminds me of the time the malicious cartoon character primitive was assailing a prominent vote-fraud activist--this was shortly after the elections of November 2004--and there was some court case using an obscure Latin phrase.
The primitives were tossing that obscure Latin phrase around as if the primitives had been born speaking Latin, and had been using Latin all their lives.
It's really entertaining, watching the primitives latch on to some phrase, as if some lucky mantra or talisman, having no idea what it really means.
