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Orlando Enrique Fiol

wrote:
>That crippled at least three generations of Americans. Clinton's welfare
>reforms were a step in the right direction and actually pretty harsh in my
>opinion. But they reduced the welfare rolls.

Were you part of those three crippled generations? I somehow suspect
not. I suspect that you're yet another white middle-class woman who
enjoys enough privileges to think she knows about poverty. Fact is, most
people participating in this discussion have never collected AFDC, cash
assistance or food stamps and therefore know little about how one
actually tries to live on them or how dependent one becomes.
Sociological literature abounds with four decades of families expressing
their frustration and dissatisfaction with having to rely on public
assistance, most insisting that they'd be happy to work if there were
jobs for which they were qualified, that weren't too far from their
dwellings, where child care couldn't get them fired and where a certain
modicum of security were promised.

Orlando