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In reply to the discussion: Let's be honest....nothing progressive can happen under HRC as president. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)RFK would NEVER have advocated just gutting welfare and leaving it at that, with nothing at all to help the poor get work.
RFK NEVER accepted the right-wing lies that the poor refused to try to get work, or that poor women were having kids just to get welfare.
RFK saw problems with welfare(as did the New Left, from the beginning-and if you've read MY posts, you know that I don't defend the status quo of welfare as it was as the ultimate solution)but he knew just getting rid of it and throwing the poor to the wolves(which is what Bill cheerfully signed off on in the Nineties and which is the policy YOU are still defending) was wrong.
RFK never blamed the poor for their own condition. You do, for some reason. You seem to actually believe the "they could always just have worked at WalMart" canard. Why? There's never been any basis in reality for it.