Re: the individual responsibility act of 1996

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>power went up and there was increased danger of inflation.  So
>what did Clinton and Gop do? They forced millions of low wage
>earners into the market and have pushed for reforms that allow
>disabled persons to work (such as the Ticket to work and work
>incentive improvement Act -- TTWWIW) to bring more workers from
>the reserve army into the workplace.
>
>I wrote an article about this that Mike Yates edited and
>hopefully it will appear soon in the Review of Radical Political Economy.
>
>best,
>Marta

This reminds me of something I forgot to bring up in the final days of the
New Jersey Senatorial campaign, the one that my old boss at Goldman-Sachs
spent 60 million dollars to win against his Republican opponent Robert
Franks. Trying to undercut Corzine's obviously bullshit pitch as a friend
of the poor, Franks ran an ad that showed disabled people praising him for
passing legislation that would allow them to work without sacrificing
income from Social Security Disability Payments. One of the two main people
in the ad was a guy who was in an Internet workshop I gave out in NJ about
4 years ago. To his credit, despite being a quadriplegic, he had developed
a consulting business out of his home. What I could not stomach was the
idea that the Republican Party would exploit him in this fashion. I tried
to find a response to this ad from a disabilities activist on Lexis-Nexis
that I had read a while back, but could not locate it. I expect Marta to
have something to say about this if I know Marta!

Louis Proyect
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