Peter Kilander wrote:
> I received mine last week and it was worth the wait. I spotted an error,
> though. Heather Boushey writes: "Time has past since Clinton's signing of
> the cleverly named Personal Responsibility Act (PRA) ..." Actually, the
> thing's called "The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
> Reconciliation Act" which is odd seeing as how it has little to do with
> reconciling work opportunity and personal responsility and much to do with
> supplying cheap, pliant labor and scapegoating the unfortunate.
The cuts to the SSI children's program is a prime example. Poor disabled children lifting themselves up by their bootstraps. That is the PRWOA image that comes to mind.
-- Marta Russell