It shouldn't have been CALLED "welfare reform"
The term "reform" implies that there is some sort of corruption that needs to be addressed-that some people were getting special favors or privileges that they should not have been receiving.
While there were and are serious problems in the way social benefits are administered and provided in this country(most particularly, the barbaric ban on two-parent families receiving assistance and the prohibition against people on benefits building up any savings) there were virtually no instances of people getting benefits they should not have received or people staying on benefits when employment was available to them.
If the political leadership in this country had actually listened to the poor, and to the activists who worked to help them, the problems in the welfare system would have been corrected decades earlier. Instead, the only people who had a say on the matter in the Nineties were those who had either never known want or had totally forgotten what want was like.
What happened should have been called "welfare retribution", not "welfare reform".
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