House Rejects Obama's Overreach

[P@triot]

When the Obama Administration announced it was unconstitutionally gutting the 1996 welfare reform law’s work requirements, it was yet another moment of Obama abusing power and usurping the Constitution. This landmark conservative policy helped three million Americans achieve independence from government.

Today, the House voted 250-164 to reject this illegal overreach. In fact, 19 Democrats voted against Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and for personal responsibility!

 

[Chris]

This welfare move was requested by Republican governors.

See governor Utah.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Score one for democracy in action. This Dictator-N-Chief thinks he can circumvent Congress and the United States Constitution.. He's sorely mistaken and I think everyone is beyond tired of his shit..


Romney/Ryan 2012 for Constitutional principle.

 

[Black_Label]

Romney/Ryan 2012 for Constitutional principle.

 

[Care4all]

When the Obama Administration announced it was unconstitutionally gutting the 1996 welfare reform law’s work requirements, it was yet another moment of Obama abusing power and usurping the Constitution. This landmark conservative policy helped three million Americans achieve independence from government.

Today, the House voted 250-164 to reject this illegal overreach. In fact, 19 Democrats voted against Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and for personal responsibility!

Got a link on that.....? Unless it passes the Senate it isn't going anywhere....

Does Obama’s Plan ‘Gut Welfare Reform’?

Posted on August 9, 2012

A Mitt Romney TV ad claims the Obama administration has adopted “a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements.” The plan does neither of those things.

• Work requirements are not simply being “dropped.” States may now change the requirements — revising, adding or eliminating them — as part of a federally approved state-specific plan to increase job placement.
• And it won’t “gut” the 1996 law to ease the requirement. Benefits still won’t be paid beyond an allotted time, whether the recipient is working or not.

Romney’s ad also distorts the facts when it says that under President Obama’s plan “you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job.” The law never required all welfare recipients to work. Only 29 percent of those receiving cash assistance met the work requirement by the time President Obama took office.
Under the new policy, states can now seek a federal waiver from work-participation rules that, among other things, require welfare recipients to engage in one of 12 specific “work activities,” such as job training. But, in exchange, states must develop a plan that would provide a “more efficient or effective means to promote employment,” which may or may not include some or all of the same work activities. States also must submit an “evaluation plan” that includes “performance measures” that must be met — or the waiver could be revoked.


Ron Haskins, a former Republican House committee aide who was instrumental in the 1996 overhaul of the welfare program, told us the Obama administration should not have unilaterally changed the work-requirement rules. But Haskins said the Romney claim that Obama’s plan will “gut welfare reform” is “very misleading.”
“I do not think it ends welfare reform or strongly undermines welfare reform,” said Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families. “Each state has to say what they will do and how that reform … will either increase employment or lead to better employment” of recipients.

FactCheck.org : Does Obama’s Plan ‘Gut Welfare Reform’?

 

[P@triot]

FactCheck.org : Does Obama’s Plan ‘Gut Welfare Reform’?

I see your "fact check" and I raise you TWO actual Fact Checks:

Washington Post Gives Bill Clinton Two "Pinocchios" in Welfare Fact Check

Morning Bell: Obama Doesn't Just Gut Welfare Reform, He Turns It Upside Down

 

[gadsdenrisign]

romney/ryan 2012 for constitutional principle.

 

[BlindBoo]

REad the directive for yourself and you decide

PURPOSE:

HHS is encouraging states to consider new, more effective ways to meet the goals of TANF, particularly helping parents successfully prepare for, find, and retain employment. Therefore, HHS is issuing this information memorandum to notify states of the Secretary’s willingness to exercise her waiver authority under section 1115 of the Social Security Act to allow states to test alternative and innovative strategies, policies, and procedures that are designed to improve employment outcomes for needy families.

TANF-ACF-IM-2012-03

 

[Listening]

Regardless of whether you agree with the principle or not, the fact remains that Obama seeks to modify a law passed by congress without congress's approval.

If Harry Reid were anything but a traitor and a stupid bastard, he'd have Obama up for impeachment.

 

[Care4all]

FactCheck.org : Does Obama’s Plan ‘Gut Welfare Reform’?

I see your "fact check" and I raise you TWO actual Fact Checks:

Washington Post Gives Bill Clinton Two "Pinocchios" in Welfare Fact Check

Morning Bell: Obama Doesn't Just Gut Welfare Reform, He Turns It Upside Down

your last link is not a fact checker...

your first link gave bill clinton, reluctantly, 2 Pinocchio

HOWEVER it resoundingly gave ROMNEY 4 Pinocchios.... an outright LIE.

Guess how many citizens are on tanf Welfare? JUST 1.8 million....that's it.... Not 47 million not 100 million people as your side touts, but 1.8 million out of 310 million...