1:32:01
to privatize
their welfare systems.
1:32:06
That firm was Lockheed Martin.
With the cold war over
1:32:10
and no enemy left
to frighten the public,
1:32:12
Lockheed had found
the perfect way to diversify
1:32:14
and the perfect way
1:32:16
to profit from people's fears,
1:32:18
with an enemy
much closer to home:
1:32:20
poor black mothers
1:32:23
like Tamarla Owens.
1:32:25
- We've got a one-parent family and
the mother's travelling 60 miles.
1:32:28
Sheriff Robert Pickell
Flint, Michigan
1:32:30
An hour, an hour and a half
away to go to work
1:32:33
an hour, an hour and a half
to come home.
1:32:35
How does that help a community?
But that's part of the state...
1:32:37
you know, making parents
responsible, making them work--
1:32:39
- Welfare to work.
- Welfare to work.
1:32:41
That's a program
that ought to be stopped
1:32:43
because it really has no merit.
1:32:45
I think it adds more
to the problem
1:32:47
than it does to solve it.
1:32:49
- Really?
- I do.
1:32:51
- You're the sheriff
and you feel this way.
1:32:53
- I do, I do. I wish I could put
two parents in every home
1:32:57
and make every parent
equally responsible,
1:32:59
but I can't do that.
1:33:00
But we're not doing anything
by taking one parent
1:33:02
and putting them on a bus
and sending them out of town
1:33:05
to make $5.50 an hour.
1:33:08
- This is the bus that she was
forced to ride every day
1:33:11
in order to work off
the welfare money
1:33:13
the state had given her.
1:33:18
She, and many others from Flint
who were poor,
1:33:21
would make the 80-mile
round-trip journey every day,
1:33:24
from Flint to Auburn Hills,
in Oakland County,
1:33:26
one of the wealthiest areas
in the country.
1:33:31
Tamarla would leave
1:33:33
early in the morning
and return late at night,
1:33:36
rarely seeing
her young children.
1:33:40
- What's the point in doing that?
Where does the state benefit?
1:33:43
Where does Flint and Genesee
County benefit from that?
1:33:46
We have a child dead.
I think that may be, in part,
1:33:49
part of the problem.
1:33:51
We drove the one parent out.
1:33:54
Now, you or anybody else
that can tell me
1:33:58
that that best serves
the community,