Reply #32: Regarding welfare reform

[chaumont58]

When the argument was going on, in the mid 90s, my position could be called simplistic, but, I thought, unless someone is willing to see people starve, welfare 'reform' is deck chair rearranging. I never read any of the fine print, but I also have never heard of anyone starving.
About 'don't ask, don't tell,' most of the shit Clinton gets now about that is from people who have forgotten just how many homophobes were in congress during the early and mid 90s. Democrat powerhouse Sam Nunn would fire any staffer he found to be gay, period. Clinton was trying to remove the military regs against being gay and staying in the service. Colin Powell was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the time and he raised the same issues against gays that were raised against blacks by the military when Harry Truman integrated the military services in the late 40s. I read complaints about Clinton signing DOMA. As far as I am concerned, DOMA was public relations bullshit on the part of what left of homophobia in Congress.