The WORST THING Hillary Clinton Has Ever Done
"..Today, over two decades later, Hillary Clinton’s policies remain conservative. She continues to sit at the right-wing of the Democratic Party. Clinton may have claimed in the debate that she is a progressive, but her actions have long contradicted her words..."
Politicians are often said to be skilled in the art of talking out of both sides of their mouths. This was exemplified in the first 2015 Democratic presidential debate, on the evening of Oct. 13. When asked which enemy he was most proud of, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley boldly declared “the NRA.” The problem is O’Malley took $40,000 from the NRA in 2012, according to disclosures obtained by The Intercept. Yet O’Malley is not the only candidate who says one thing and does another.
This is true — Clinton not only worked with Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to help American youth; she served as the head of its board. Later in the debate — amid her hawkish rhetoric — Clinton twice more mentioned her work with CDF, wielding it as an example of her purportedly progressive policies. The problem with Clinton’s claims, however, is that she betrayed children as First Lady. Under the guise of welfare reform, the Clinton administration worked with Republicans to gut social services, ignoring their own senior officials’ warnings that, by doing so, they would be plunging over a million children into poverty. Bill Clinton ran in 1992 on the campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it.” In 1996, he — with the wholehearted support of Hillary — succeeded, passing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA). PRWORA was based on legislation first proposed by Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. The act was opposed by the left-wing of the Democratic Party, but the Clinton administration joined hands with Republicans and conservative Democrats to push it through.
As part of PRWORA, the Clinton administration axed the Aid to Families with Dependent Children federal assistance program, which had been created 61 years before by the Social Security Act, in the New Deal. They replaced it with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which was drastically weaker and — as the name stresses — temporary. Hillary, as First Lady, advocated strongly for the restructuring of welfare. Her former co-workers at CDF, on the other hand, were infuriated. CDF founder and President Marian Wright Edelman declared that President Clinton’s “signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children.” “Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics,” the CDF president told Democracy Now in a 2007 interview. At the time, CDF “profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so,” Marian Wright Edelman explained.
Three senior officials on welfare policy resigned from the Clinton administration in response to Bill and Hillary’s scrapping of welfare. Peter Edelman, a legal scholar who at the time served as an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, told The New York Times, “I have devoted the last 30-plus years to doing whatever I could to help in reducing poverty in America. I believe the recently enacted welfare bill goes in the opposite direction.” Wendell Primus, another high-ranking official in the department, quit in protest as well. A scientific study he had overseen showed that, because of PRWORA, more than a million children would fall into poverty. Peter Edelman disclosed that this study was “personally handed” to President Clinton, but was ignored. To remain in the Clinton administration then, Primus maintained, “would be to disown all the analysis my office has produced regarding the impact of the bill.”
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http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/the_worst_thing_hillary_clinton_has_ever_done/
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More nefarious than 33,000 gun deaths a year. Wait, no, that's not hilarious. It's sad. "Piles of bodies".
Gee, he created 25 million jobs. 
good work. 
I know, it's hard to wrap your head around the idea that not everyone is talking only with you.
JaneyVee was claiming welfare reform was great. When that didn't pan out, she tried to change the subject to guns. Problem is 33,000 people die per year from guns, and 45,000 people die per year from poverty. And that 33,000 includes a lot of poverty-caused gun deaths - people turning to crime in desperation.
Then you showed up to be the white knight, along with numbers!! Small numbers to prove how evil everyone else is!! Because according to you, the only way to die from poverty is malnutrition. Lack of medical care? More polluted environment? Higher risk automobiles? Higher risk jobs? Nah, the only way for poverty to shorten a life is to starve to death. 
George, you are making an incredibly dumb argument in an attempt to rescue another incredibly dumb argument.
As for 45,000, the study is linked above. If you'd bothered to read the thread before riding in on your white horse, you might have found out why it wasn't only deaths from malnutrition.
In no better way could the RW Third Wayer's BS be summed up- they sold that woman out and increased crime at the same time...just to push a BS meme that being a mother is not enough, you have to be a wage slave to feel good about yourself.
Without any links or proof this is just a bunch of guilt by association bs.
Not to mention that childhood poverty actually decreased in the 90's.
So you have any actual FACTS to back up your hit job?
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