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Wars on poverty often become wars on poor people. I was there when Clinton reduced max coverage to 2 years. It was a sentence of lifetime poverty for people w
by MechEStudent 9y ago
Wars on poverty often become wars on poor people. I was there when Clinton reduced max coverage to 2 years. It was a sentence of lifetime poverty for people who had no option, and that was strongly enhanced by the "human glue".
- DoreenMichele 9y agoThis. I am leery of anything calling it a war on poverty. If you are waging war on poverty, who is your enemy? Obvious answer: poor people.
- gowld 9y agoWar on Poverty was a Johnson program. You can't cite Clinton's backing away from War of Poverty as an argument against War on Poverty.
- ttonkytonk 9y agoI think the idea here is that cutting benefits could be construed as part of the War on Poverty by the argument that the benefits locked people into poverty.