[Old Sarge]

{Clinton} aimed to conserve the bulk of the entitlement state by trimming a few of its less popular features like welfare payments not linked to work.

Stopped reading right here, such an egregious rewrite of history.

William the Impeached had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to sign welfare reform. This knucklehead tries to paint The Bent One as being the progenitor of the thing.

[neverdem]

"{Clinton} aimed to conserve the bulk of the entitlement state by trimming a few of its less popular features like welfare payments not linked to work."

Stopped reading right here...

Wrong move. Clinton knew that he had to at least appear to be moderate, at least after his gun grabbing and Hillarycare flop. He promised to "end wellfare as we know it." The hard left went bananas and threatened him with a reduced voter turnout. Jesse Jackson said, "mend it, don't end it." The law was called the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.