Obama Guts Welfare Reform

Obama trolling for more votes...

Today, the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the reform law. The Obama directive bludgeons the letter and intent of the actual reform legislation.

Welfare Reform under Clinton

Welfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The underlying concept of welfare reform was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.

The welfare reform law was very successful. In the four decades prior to welfare reform, the welfare caseload never experienced a significant decline. But, in the four years after welfare reform, the caseload dropped by nearly half. Employment surged and child poverty among affected groups plummeted. The driving force behind these improvements was the rigorous new federal work requirements contained in the TANF law.

Today the Obama Administration issued a new directive stating that the traditional TANF work requirements can be waived or overridden by a legal device called the section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315).

http://www.foundry.org/2012/07/12/obama ... re-reform/

I've never seen a president who has made so many attempts to bypass the House, Congress and our constitution.

duplicate topic like many others on this forum.

LOL wrote: duplicate topic like many others on this forum.

Sorry... Obama has been lying so much lately, and skirting the Congress and the constitution, I almost can't keep up with his antics.

Oh, the horror! How dare the President allow states to tailor a program to fit the needs of their citizens rather than impose a one size fits all. Particularly when Congress gave the President authority to do so.

Something the Dog Said wrote: Oh, the horror! How dare the President allow states to tailor a program to fit the needs of their citizens rather than impose a one size fits all. Particularly when Congress gave the President authority to do so.

Bill Clinton's welfare reform has put 3 million needy people back to work. The great job saver/creator just screwed another job producing legislation. Before Obama is done in Nov., he'll have half this country on some federal government supported program. Move over Greece... here we come.

This memo does not gut welfare reform, it only allows individual states to request changes from the federal mandate in order to tailor the program to best fit their state instead of the one size fits all. does not quite fit the conservative "outrage", but is designed to make the program more effective. Congress specifically gave the administration this ability in the original legislation, and this administration is taking advantage of it. Unless you are one of those who believe the federal government is best to decide what works best at the state level.

Dang, Shill...you NEVER tire of being a TOOL. You're endurance is amazing ((more likely means you've got NOTHING ELSE TO DO). So let me get this straight: states rights good when your Republican bosses tell you so; bad if it comes from a Dem? Thank you for defining 'hypocrite ' so well for us.

You are such a manipulated toadie...it's gonna hurt when you finally realize it.