I like this description of the history of Food Stamps as a progressive issue because it shows how FDR created this policy not wanting it to become a hand-out----but a hand up. This article mentions Clinton and his Welfare to Work---but it does not tie Clinton to creating the highest unemployment since the Great Depression with global market neo-liberalism. While Clinton pretended to be getting people back to work ------he was doing the opposite. THAT IS NOT PROGRESSIVE. But, FDR feeling that progressive programs should lift people gave us THE NATIONAL PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM that did the opposite of Clinton----it actually created millions of jobs for people and gave them the opportunity to get off the dole. These were good paying jobs----and jobs in all fields----and they actually repaired the nation from the effects of the Great Depression all funded by the high taxation on corporations and the rich bringing back the massive fraudulent gains. So, counter to what Republicans want to tell us---progressive programs when they work right lift people---they do not allow them to stagnate in poverty as happened when the rich and corporations started to attack these programs. What was the first attack to a healthy progressive program----attaching it to a Farm Bill that grew to be a subsidy for Big AG----with all of the food as foreign aid.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:45:46 +0000
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