The Tragedy Of Welfare "Deform" Near Prostitution For Welfare Clients To Feed Their Kids. [View all]

[TheMastersNemesis]

My reaction to the headline on the state of welfare reform on Huffington Post today.

As I commented in an earlier thread I used to work for a program once called "The Work Incentive Program". With the help of a bipartisan Bill Clinton he helped destroy that wonderful program that I worked at for 6 years from 1976 until 1982 when Reagan trashed the National Employment Service by cutting our budget. I lost my position for 5 months was demoted to a clerk before I got my grade back.

Sorry but I have to say this folks. Piss on Reagan and all his CONSERVATIVE progeny and piss on his library and grave. Dig the asshole up and throw his remains in the ocean. Because of him millions of Americans have suffered and even died. I deliberately mean all disrespect for a dead Reagan. And piss on the GOP and all its candidates. I apoligize for this language in advance but I have have enough.

Once I tell this story you will know why I am so vile towards ANYTHING the GOP did and does.

We had at one time a National Employment Service that I proudly worked for for 24 years. The best years of my life was working with welfare clients and the homeless. I would do it again and again and again. Nothing is more rewarding than the successes I had getting poor, abused, and at times terrified young women into some kind of meaningful work.

In one year Lowell and I negotiated around $250,000 in federal OJT contracts for welfare clients in our County. It was gratifying to see one of your AFDC clients get a job and go to work and even continue after the contract was up. Yes there were bitter disappointments. The program WAS cost effective and did change lives for the better. And yes we had scammers but that is just part of human nature. These GOP bastards and I have worst word are the biggest scammers of all. That is another issue.

We had a good crew of Social Service degreed Social Workers and aides, two certified counselors, 3 employment specialists and a secretary. And we all carried case loads of about 100 welfare clients. We assessed them for their needs and went work trying to help these mostly poor women get a life. We paid for schooling, car repair, federal OJT contracts, child care, and some medical. Most qualified for food stamps and Medic aide. We also paid for work search. It WAS a great program.

And for all you assholes out there who are trolls and Returdlicans - screw you and go to H. I would NOT help any of you if you and your family were drowning these days. You and your kind were responsible for killing this program because you helped end it with your votes. It is not name calling if what you say is TRUE. And Clinton was too stupid to understand what he did with "welfare
deform". He is just as responsible.

The Temporary Assistance To Needy Families (TANF) was a fraud and a sham and a sentence to a life of misery and poverty for women and young children. IT WAS A HARASSMENT PROGRAM FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. it was all about forcing women to take jobs that they could not live on or feed their children. Most of the support that the original WIN program were removed. The real effect would be similar to sending a person out in the middle of the Mojave Desert 50 miles from civilization with a quart of water. It was that god damned impossible situation under what I saw in 1998 before I retired. I was not about to be a terrorist towards these clients and threaten to take food out of theirs and their kids mouths if they did not obey the "whip".

I am just beyond furious with what has gone on under TANF and the new welfare regime. I guess we now have block grants and the states do not have to use the money for welfare clients. What we are doing is more than immoral. It is downright criminal.

So what is really left women now. They will not be able to control their family size with the GOP planning to make contraception either illegal or unavailable. Now that they want to jail women who might have an abortion, there are few options left. Women are in a Catch 22 if they have not means. The REAL TRUTH now is that many of these women are faced with selling themselves to feed their children. That will be really true with food stamp cuts the GOP is proposing.

Just watch the historic play "Les Miserables" and the fate of Fantine. THAT IS THE WORLD THE GOP WANTS TODAY.

Being a veteran of Vietnam I will no longer take GOP sh--. I will go out of my way to make some Republican bastard pay for what they are doing and plan to do. I will confront in make miserable where I can. Romney needs to be followed, stalked and challenged everywhere he goes. WE NEED TO BREAK HIM PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND WE NEED TO HUMILIATE HIM. WE NEED TO CRUSH HIS CANDIDACY BEFORE IT GETS ANY KIND OF GOOD START. His crowds should be small or nonexistent.

Debate is over as far as I am concerned. It is time for verbal war with this criminal GOP who is now using FOREIGN money in their campaigns and is violating the law by having their campaigns communicate with the super pacs. It is time to throw off the "Boy Scout" uniform and toss them into the pig sty they were born in.

IF THEY WIN WOMEN AN CHILDREN AND THE VULNERABLE LOSES. WE ALL LOSE FOR A GENERATION OR MORE WITH A NEONAZI SUPREME COURT. AMERICA LOSES AND THE FLAG BECOMES A MEANINGLESS SYMBOL OF WHAT USED TO BE. Obama may not be perfect but he may be our only hope for now.