Reply #66: That's too many steps/years away for the people on the streets, [View All]

[Jed Dilligan]

in the projects, and in prison. Obama wants to help grow the middle class but also act now to help our most desperate citizens and communities.

The Clinton-era boom should have ended homelessness and other new immiserations of the Reagan-Bush era. It didn't, so I can't trust another Clinton to deal with these lingering issues effectively, especially not in a bust economy. At least Obama cut his teeth working on poverty issues.

This is not meant to be harsh on her, just the viewpoint from someone who experienced homelessness during the "prosperous" 1990s and has worked on homelessness and extreme poverty issues for more than ten years.