Mitt Romney spent Tuesday on a media blitz claiming that President Obama is out to “gut welfare reform.” An ad released by the Romney campaign first pointed to President Clinton as having successfully reformed welfare, before excoriating Obama. However, in a statement, Clinton called Romney’s charge against Obama “disappointing” and “not true”:
Governor Romney released an ad today alleging that the Obama administration had weakened the work requirements of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. That is not true. [...]
The recently announced waiver policy was originally requested by the Republican governors of Utah and Nevada to achieve more flexibility in designing programs more likely to work in this challenging environment. The Administration has taken important steps to ensure that the work requirement is retained and that waivers will be granted only if a state can demonstrate that more people will be moved into work under its new approach. The welfare time limits, another important feature of the 1996 act, will not be waived.
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Bill Clinton takes credit for welfare reform when it was Rick Santorum who wrote it.
ReplyDelete"The recently announced waiver policy was originally requested by the Republican governors of Utah and Nevada"
ReplyDeleteLet's ponder that sentence for a minute. Pres. Obama agreed with Republicans this was a good idea, made it happen, and now they're blaming him for the very policy they requested and demanded. Got it.
Hm...didn't this Clinton guy get charged with perjury? I'm sure he's telling the truth now lol
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