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.“I go crazy every
time I read the conventional wisdom,” he said Friday night at his
presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. “So part of the Republican
narrative is that I was ‘saved’ from myself by the election of the
Republican Congress [in 1994] that ‘forced me’ to do welfare reform and
‘made the balanced budget possible.’”
Clinton said reporters and commentators “keep saying this, overlooking
all relevant facts.” At the federal level, he said 43 states
received federal waivers to
implement welfare reform before the GOP-controlled House passed the
final bill.
“And yet I kept reading how this was ‘a Republican idea,’ just because
President Reagan had a good story about a welfare queen and a Cadillac
who didn’t exist,” Clinton said. [Clinton
sick and tirered of not getting the credit he deserves]
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The
Clinton economy was in fact moribund until the newly elected Republican
congressional majority enacted several tax cutting bills, look it
up. Here's a rough time line of "his welfare reform" performance.
- Promised during the 1992 campaign to "end
welfare as we know it."
- Takes office in Jan 1993
- Never mentions welfare reform.
- Republicans take control of congress in 1995
- Clinton vetoes two similar welfare reform bills
- Adviser Dick Morris advises him to sign the third one
- Immediately vows to roll it back.
Here's something I found very interesting. Scan this 1996
AP article Provisions
of the 1996 Welfare Bill. How many of the provisions
are observed today? What happened?
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