I sat in the back room of "advocacy" groups and saw first hand the blatant attempts to design the programs for the poverty pimps. The first time I saw it was when Sen Chuck Percy and his staff sat in the back room of 1109 N. Ashland and cynically deisgned a couple sections of the housing law ... 221(d)3...221(d)4... etc with the express purpose of empowering the poverty pimps.
Then, in the '70's it was the NHITC competing with Hillary's ACORN to come up with the best "community organization friendly" programs. Then it was Msgr Geno Baroni designing programs for partnerships between us Taxpayers and Campaign For Human Development of the Catholic Church.
BTW. That was not a faith based initiative because there was no faith in the Catholic CHD.
I'll take your word for it. I didn't realize it was that bad that far back.
I remember in the early 70s the embarrassment of a friend of my mother's for collecting food stamps. Her husband had been laid off, but they had 5 kids to feed, so he was able to land a well paying, but temporary job up in Canada. Unfortunately there was difficulty getting his pay checks home because he was gone for 6 weeks at a time. All the neighbors helped out, but did convince her that the programs were designed for folks "like us" that just need a temporary hand.
It probably lasted about 6 months and that was the end of that.
That's not the case now - once you're in the system, well you obviously know the rest better than I do. Thanks for the information.