I lived through it. You have no clue what you are talking about.
There is nothing you can tell me about welfare that I cannot spot as truth or BS. I spent over 40 years in a city destroyed by the welfare state. I call BS.
You dont hear it on the evening news, but there is a city of 70,000 people in Massachusetts that has an unemployment rate of nearly 50% and the politicians are doing nothing about it.
In the best years for this country, under any president you can name since Johnson, unemployment in this city has NEVER gone under 20%. The lowest it ever got was 2001 as the Clinton welfare reforms hit the streets.
Since the Bush welfare reforms of 2004, linked to a war funding bill by democrats as pay off for their votes, the unemployment rate has climbed back up. If you had a clue you would know that an average 30% of the money in all WAR FUNDING bills under Bush was spent on domestic programs that had nothing to do with the wars. Like the $200 million Murtha airport in PA or the bridge to nowhere in Alaska.
Unemployment in this city stood at 30% in 2007 before the recession. Yet nothing was done to help because the largest employers in the city for the last 30 years have been the government support systems. Together with the recipients of those services they make up the largest voting block in the city at nearly 60% of all voters. Scare them into thinking their jobs and benefits are being threatened and they would vote for the devil himself if he promised to keep the status quo.
Do not waste my time with your political rhetoric. Your rant has no basis in reality. In my younger days I was a community organizer naively trying to fix things from within the system. Now I know the system itself is corrupt. Your BS is pointless to the discussion.
Judging by your reaction to my praise of Clinton and bashing of Bush I would say you had no clue how to make a rational argument in response. I crossed party lines in a manner you cannot deal with. So you lashed out like a scolded child.
