Dang you are nasty.

read ur post again.  U R talking about it like its true.  Maybe U can't see it but i can.

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The law signed by President Clinton on Aug. 22, 1996, has transformed the way the nation helps its neediest citizens. Gone is the promise of a government check for parents raising children in poverty. In its place are 50 state programs to help those parents get jobs.

In the 12 years since caseloads peaked at 5.1 million families in 1994, millions have left the welfare rolls for low-paying jobs. Nearly 1 million more have been kicked off for not following states' rules or have used up all the benefits they're allowed under time limits. Today, 1.9 million families get cash benefits; in one-third of them, only the children qualify for aid. About 38% of those still on welfare are black, 33% white and 24% Hispanic.

Three in four families on welfare are headed by unmarried women. As a result, employment rates for all single women rose 25% before declining slightly since 2001. Earnings for the poorest 40% of families headed by women doubled from 1994 to 2000, before recession wiped out nearly half the gains. Poverty rates for children fell 25% before rising 10% since 2000.

"It was a profoundly important philosophic shift," says Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, who was governor of Utah when the law was implemented. "This was ... one of the few things in a decade you can look at and say the world really changed."

Both Suzy Orman and Jim Cramer were on the Today show and they thought it was a good deal which, I might add, surprised me.

I wonder what will happen now.

There goes my 401K!

These people are my heros..Protestors are my heros!  True patriots one and all.

I don't know about you, but I'm American, not dem or pub, just American.  I refuse to shut up or put up, as you so kindly put it, about anything.  I have to admit the last election I voted pub, and I'm still paying for that one.  But seriously sam, keep playing the blame game.  You'd make a good politician.  See where it gets us. 

Fact is 140 dems did vote to pass it, while only 65 pubs voted for it.  Maybe because the pubs didn't feel they were getting enough out of it for themselves or because of fear of its failure.  It's a shame that pubs can't even support their own party, ie Bush, who wanted this to pass.

Just vote early and get over yourselves.  Unbelievable.

is your wishing misery on fellow Americans because you have your nose in a snit (or something darker and moister).

in our area there are people struggling but not to the extent that seem to be here on this board every day. Certainly don't live in a glass house; have struggled before in the past and have figured out a way not to. We are in a fortunate situation at the moment and have taken steps to ensure that we will be okay financially should the rug be pulled out from under us; so be it if that is considered snooty. Bash away as is your style; it humors me.

saying something you think is incorrect.  The FACT is --- she's a druggie!! 

little dig there.  I got that you were saying that Obama is ahead but his being black will doom him.  I didn't miss your sneaky way of signalling your fellow Rothschilds.