re: #387 Belafon

Still reading. This sounds familiar, like history trying to rhyme:

That’s why it was little surprise when both of my parents were unemployed during the late 1970s and early 1980s farm crisis in Iowa. Unemployment rates drove sky high. As people got laid off from jobs everywhere, my parents were no exception.

They tried for months, then over a year to find new jobs. Finally, they went onto the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Unemployed Parents program or welfare. They called it AFDC-UP.

My parents dutifully voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 like good conservatives. So did I in my 4th grade class. Within a short time, Ronald Reagan was lobbying to end AFDC-Unemployed Parent program. It was ended by the summer of 1981 in our state due to block granting.

Edit: Added some paragraphs I meant to copy.