It's unbelievable, the harm we did to poor families and children for so many years, all in the name of helping them. In the wake of Clinton's (and Gingritch's) welfare reform act of 1996...

More striking was what happened to rates of child poverty. They not only went down; by 2001, they hit all-time lows for black children. And though the numbers drifted up again during the recession, they were still lower than they had been pre-reform. On other measures, the young kids of ex–welfare moms are no worse off than under the old regime. Though some studies find lower achievement and more problem behavior among adolescents, the big picture doesn’t show teen children in more trouble post-reform. After 1996, juvenile violence and teen pregnancy continued to go down, as they had since the early nineties.

To think of all the years we had increased levels of poverty and violence for poor children, unnecessarily high because of LBJ's "Great Society" idiocy. All those children who were made unnecessarily poor and/or encouraged into lives of crimes. All those needlessly failed and broken little lives.

Leftism kills.