THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, August 28, 1995 TAG: 9508260034
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 25 lines
Plans to reform welfare would not be a great fear to many if we as a society had faced up to the problems of welfare earlier.
There was a time if you were to criticize the welfare system you were demonized and ostracized. Then in the early '90s, we somehow came to the conclusion that there was a problem.
President Clinton made promises before he was elected that he had a plan to reform welfare, but only recently has he actually planned on presenting it.
The attitude, ``I'll wait until I'm forced to,'' has helped put us in this situation. Now the solutions to reforming the welfare system seem as gigantic as the glacier at Yosemite.
BRIAN SLIGH
Virginia Beach, Aug. 14, 1995 by CNB