when i read the first paragraph of this article, i thought politico had lost it. but then i looked at the byline and saw that marc penn, hillary clinton’s ex-chief strategiest had um, penned the article. because bill clinton’s slashing of the u.s. welfare system (you know, the system that only let’s you collect social welfare for a lifetime max of 5 years. that’s lifetime) is the reason why poverty jumped dramatically about 5 years after he left office.
