Tom Harkin actually said...

we have an obligation to meet, and we are going to do everything we can to meet that obligation.

But to cut the budget by taking job opportunities away from the poorest Iowans is bad math and in some ways just plain mean.

That is all changing. By 2014, by the time we phase this all in, first of all, people will not be locked into a job.

It would create a tremendous challenge for them.