Lula wrote:RedWingFan wrote:You mean language like limiting welfare benefits for his base?????
Yes, quite possibly. So, the people whom Democrats represent happen to be impoverished and poor. Is that a crime? Someone has to help out the less unfortunate.
This is where you fail to understand conservatism Dean. Welfare reform HELPED the poor. The democrats' purpose is not to help them but to keep them as voters!!!!
In fact Marian Wright Edelman was chairman of the Children's Defense Fund. Her husband Peter resigned in his outrage because he believed millions were going to be harmed. Years later he admitted that he was wrong and couldn't believe that it had in fact helped.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editor ... m_success/
The results speak for themselves. Since peaking in 1994, the nation's welfare caseload plummeted by 60 percent, falling from 5 million families to fewer than 2 million. Welfare recipients went to work in droves. The employment rate among those who had been likeliest to slip into long-term dependence -- young mothers who had never been married -- soared by nearly 100 percent. And as more and more mothers left welfare and got jobs, more and more of their children were lifted out of poverty.
Far from throwing a million kids into the streets, welfare reform sent the child poverty rate tumbling, from 20.8 percent in 1995 to 17.8 percent in 2004. In black communities, where welfare had done the most damage, the decline was even more dramatic. ``Black child poverty plummeted at an unprecedented rate, falling to 30.0 percent in 2001," Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation testified before Congress . ``In 2001, despite the recession, the poverty rate for black children was at the lowest point in national history."Not everything has been reformed. The 1996 law affected only the basic welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children. But dozens of other welfare entitlements, such as food stamps and Medicaid, still operate under the old rules. And while the out-of-wedlock birth rate is no longer skyrocketing, it is still far too high -- as are the poverty and social chaos it begets.
) My fellow conservatives, keep fighting the good fight!!! 
