Protecting social programs is in their self-interest and the country's interests. The country needs them in order to be a decent, moral place. Also, the clinical people need to get back to the agencies. It would be good for those most at risk in society if good clinical social workers were back in the agencies. They wouldn't make much money, but it would be a mitzvah.
Social workers have a history of protest.
It is an action that has diminished over time. Here then is an integration of the clinical and the political. If you do not protest this, you accept a system that is not available to all people. If you are going to be active on the policy side, you have to be active where the political and social meet. We have to get involved in the restructuring.