Walter B. Jones: “the defenders of the old order have been telling us for weeks how much they want to help the children. But their idea of…”

“the defenders of the old order have been telling us for weeks how much they want to help the children. But their idea of helping children is expanding a welfare system that has proven to be a failure--especially for children. Consider this recent poll result. When asked, ``do you think children are generally better off today or worse off than when you were a child,'' 60 percent of all Americans--and 77 percent of black Americans--said children today, were worse off. All you have to do is look around to see that the people are right. And the welfare system is a large part of the reason why. So why do the Democrats fight so hard to save a failed system? I think it has a lot to do with the poverty industry that has grown up around the Democratic Party. The Democrat Party may need poverty, but America does not. It is time to act, Mr. Speaker. It is time to change a failed system that has done irreparable harm to America's children.”