The thing is, we can’t lay all of this at the feet of “The One”. Amazingly, we were on the road to welfare reform during Clinton’s years. Then we have Bush, the “Compassionate Conservative” who starts signing up all of the charities to be on the plantation. We should expect the socialist party to want more of Uncle Sam’s plantation. Who we should really be mad at are the ones that are supposed to be on our side. Judging by how the first two months of “The One’s” presidency has gone, I’m not sure “our side” has gotten it yet. I hope we never see the term “Compassionate Conservative” again!!
Clinton only went along with welfare reform because we had an aggressive Republican Congress that pushed through the reform and it was obvious that there was massive public support for the idea. Bill liked to be popular, politics be damned.
Bush didn’t really do that much to what we think of as welfare, and the entitlement programs he expanded were mostly things like the prescription drug program, etc. What Bambi is doing has completely reversed the policy direction of some 20+ years and brought us right back to the “Great Society” at its worst.