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Romney's New Target: Obama's Welfare Waivers

Ad attacks state waivers plan

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 7, 2012 1:28 PM CDT

(Newser) – Mitt Romney is opening up a new front in the war for the White House. A new ad accuses President Obama of overhauling Bill Clinton's welfare reform, resulting in a program that doesn't require recipients to work. "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check," the ad says. Thus, "welfare to work goes back to being plain old welfare."

The Obama plan would allow states to seek waivers from current work rules via the health and human services secretary. Those waivers would give states more control over the means of getting people working, USA Today notes. The aim, according to secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is "to accelerate job placement by moving more Americans from welfare to work. ... No policy which undercuts that goal or waters down work requirements will be considered or approved by the department."

President Obama arrives the White House on Sunday.
President Obama arrives the White House on Sunday.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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krowley
Aug 8, 2012 2:00 PM CDT
Obama is simply out to distract us from the real issues and his own recordas President. The real issues we face - a faltering poor economy, very fewjobs, housing prices down 35%, heavy handed regs that keep piling on thecost of business simply staying in business, the highest corporate taxes inthe world, the growing cost of entitlements and the unwillingness to rein inrecord spending - are not being addressed. And when one takes a quicklook at the man's record, it helps to explain why he tries to distract us fromhis 3 1/2 yrs in office - the record spending, record debt, record food stampoutlays, record foreclosures, record bankruptcies, a new record of 40consecutive months of unemployment above 8%, the nation's first evercredit rating downgrade, his personal record of 100 plus rounds of golfand more campaign stops than the last 5 Presidents combined, This isObama's record. It doesn't belong to Bush and it certainly isn't Romney's. But, my vote this election this year will be Ron Paul.
Riffran
Aug 8, 2012 5:28 AM CDT
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”  ? Benjamin Franklin
cornelison
Aug 7, 2012 7:57 PM CDT
Please give Mitt the benefit of the doubt.  He DOES knows a thing or two about corporate welfare.

 
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