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CCITI 0214
RESERVATION
But it's just talk. He has never introduced a comprehensive
plan to reform welfare. In fact he only mentioned welfare reform
twice in his presidency up until the beginning of the 1992
campaign season.
why, last month in Houston he managed to mention Elvis twice
in one little old acceptance speech alone.
And when he finally did decide in July that a presidential
candidate maybe ought to look like he's working on the problem,
he came up with a plan full of technical fixes and minor
adjustments that had a bigger effect on the people who printed
the document than the people who collect the welfare.
We need to end welfare as we know it. We need a fundamental
restructuring of the entire system to help our families and save
our taxpayers money.
I know how We can do it. I know it can work. We even made
a promising start at national reform four years ago.
I was one of the chief architects of the national Family
Support Act of 1988, which emphasizes work, child support, and
family benefits. I fought night and day to get it drafted and
passed.
But when it was finally passed, George Bush was SO sluggish
about implementing it that many of the funds available to help
people move from welfare to work have never been spent.
Frankly, when it comes to helping the poor and
disadvantaged, George Bush just doesn't get it.
I know what's at stake here. I understand something about
hard times and how hard things can get. My mother was widowed
before I was born, and for my first years I lived with my
grandparents while my mother went to nursing school in New
Orleans. She wanted to be able to get a job and support me.
And I remember the time my grandmother and I went to visit
her on the train, and when it was time to go back home and we
pulled out of the station, I saw her kneel down by the side of
the railroad tracks and cry.
I remember that to this day. I remember how she bore her
grief every day because she believed that if she sacrificed in
the short run, in the long run she could build a better life for
us.
There are millions of stories like that in America today.
Remember, during the LA riots last spring most poor people - -
people with jobs and those without -- did not riot. They did not
loot. They kept their children home and off the streets.
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