Something I have been meaning to get around to in this discussion of poverty and why rather then seein' it in decline we have had larger percentages of poor people every year going back several years and that is the "Welfare Reform Legislation" during Clinton's asministration.... This was terrible piece of **** legislation that was not comprehensive enough in its scope to actually be effective.... Quite the opposite... It was mean spirited and punitive and took America way back to pre-Great Society days...

It was about as dumb as outlawing cancer...

Hey, I could have understood it if it had included sufficiently funded job training, housing aid, transporation aid and especially child care... The later has been absolutely disgracefull... The pool of money for child care has now been frozen at 2001 **actual dollar amount*** levels... What makes this even worse is that with the time limits on public assistence there are single moms who have tried to play by the rules, get up at 4:30 in the morning, get their kids to day care and get themselves to the bus to begin work at 7:00 making $7.00 an hour or less... But with that ppol of $$$ for child care not changing when new moms become available for the vouchers the moms who have been barely makin' it are now either loosing their vouchers entirely or havin' the value of the voucher reduced to a point where the cart tips back toward abject poverty...

This is what I mean by ill-thouht-out and mean spirited... This is the kind of legislation that one would expect to get from a Congress diminated by men who don't have a clue and this is the legislation that is just now showin' just how enti-human men can be toward blaming women for having kids and not being able to keep "their man" in the home...

It is completely chauvinsitic, cruel and evil...

My hope is that as poverty continues to rise, not just in numbers, but in percentages, that this ill-thoought out bill will be revisited... There are now more women in Congress who understand that nuthing was fixed back in '96... All '96 was was a ticking timebomb...

There are now women having to quit their jobs because they can no longer afford to work??? Can't afford to work, Bobert??? Yeah, can't afford to work...

Here's the part that bugs me the most about Wwelfare Reform... It clearly balmes the women for making poor choices but for every kid in poverty, which BTW is 1 in 5 kids in the country, there is a dad somewhere who isn't taking the balme for poor choices... And guess what???

Give???

Other than court orderd support from divorces, the Beareau of Support Enforcemnt isn't all that excited in bringing the true dead-beat dads into the discussion??? Might of fact, these deadbeats were never seen as being a major part of any plan... Plan, Bobert??? What plan???

That's what I mean...

And so 1 in 5 kids in the richest country in the world will go to bed hungry tonight...

Bobert