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That is quite true. Unfortunately we are stuck with a Marxist that thinks he should be dictator. He will use every method available to him to bend laws, ignore laws, create laws as he sees fit in the light of his Marxist upbringing and education.It's interesting how he's decided to ignore enforcing DOMA, for example. Whatever you think of the law, it's the president's job to enforce it, not to determine for him/herself what the law is.
He has looked like a desperate, mud-slinging, Chicago dirtbag politician to me for years now. I caught on to that shit when he was campaigning against the other Democratic hopefuls in the Primary.The welfare shenanigans might be the turning point. .....Hopey-Changey Obama is starting to look like the desperate, mud slinging, Chicago dirtbag politician that we all know he is....
Dismantling Welfare Reform: Why Romney's Four-Point Lead Might Be Real
Members here think it's cool that Obama re-wrote the Welfare Reform Act.
Why not let the President re-write abortion laws.
We don't need separation of powers. Let's become a Dictatorship.
Obama bypasses Congress, rewrites welfare reform law with policy directive - National Policy & Issues | Examiner.com
he didn't rewrite the welfare law, he did give the Republican Governors a waiver....
Members here think it's cool that Obama re-wrote the Welfare Reform Act.
Why not let the President re-write abortion laws.
We don't need separation of powers. Let's become a Dictatorship.
Obama bypasses Congress, rewrites welfare reform law with policy directive - National Policy & Issues | Examiner.com
Members here think it's cool that Obama re-wrote the Welfare Reform Act.
Why not let the President re-write abortion laws.
We don't need separation of powers. Let's become a Dictatorship.
Obama bypasses Congress, rewrites welfare reform law with policy directive - National Policy & Issues | Examiner.com
Members here think it's cool that Obama re-wrote the Welfare Reform Act.
Why not let the President re-write abortion laws.
We don't need separation of powers. Let's become a Dictatorship.
Obama bypasses Congress, rewrites welfare reform law with policy directive - National Policy & Issues | Examiner.com
Here we go. It's whack-a-mole time again.
It has been carefully explained in past topics that Congress wrote the ability for HHS to grant waivers into the law. So if HHS is granting waivers, that is not "Obama re-wrote the Welfare Reform Act". That is HHS following the law Congress wrote, EXACTLY.
Obama’s Trick to Get Around Work Requirements
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).
Section 1115 states that “the Secretary may waive compliance with any of the requirements” of specified parts of various laws. But this is not an open-ended authority: Any provision of law that can be waived under section 1115 must be listed in section 1115 itself. The work provisions of the TANF program are contained in section 407 (entitled, appropriately, “mandatory work requirements”. Critically, this section, as well as most other TANF requirements, are deliberately not listed in section 1115; they are not waiveable.
In establishing TANF, Congress deliberately exempted or shielded nearly all of the TANF program from the section 1115 waiver authority. They did not want the law to be rewritten at the whim of Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucrats. Of the roughly 35 sections of the TANF law, only one is listed as waiveable under section 1115. This is section 402.
Section 402 describes state plans—reports that state governments must file to HHS describing the actions they will undertake to comply with the many requirements established in the other sections of the TANF law. The authority to waive section 402 provides the option to waive state reporting requirements only, not to overturn the core requirements of the TANF program contained in the other sections of the TANF law.
The new Obama dictate asserts that because the work requirements, established in section 407, are mentioned as an item that state governments must report about in section 402, all the work requirements can be waived. This removes the core of the TANF program; TANF becomes a blank slate that HHS bureaucrats and liberal state bureaucrats can rewrite at will.
Congressional Research Service: “There Are No TANF Waivers”
In a December 2001 document, “Welfare Reform Waivers and TANF,” the non-partisan Congressional Research Service clarified that the limited authority to waive state reporting requirement in section 402 does not grant authority to override work and other major requirements in the other sections of the TANF law (sections that were deliberately not listed under the section 1115 waiver authority):
"Technically, there is waiver authority for TANF state plan requirement; however, [the] major TANF requirements are not in state plans. Effectively, there are no TANF waivers."
Obama Guts Welfare Reform
Here is the letter the republican governors wrote in 2005 regarding the need for the States to have flexibility on this....
With romney's signature on it.
http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/112/2005_Romney_Letter.pdf
The Senate bill provides states with the flexibility to manage their TANF programs and effectively serve low-income populations. Increased waiver authority, allowable work activities, availability of partial work credit and the ability to coordinate state programs are all important aspects of moving recipients from welfare to work.
Here is the letter the republican governors wrote in 2005 regarding the need for the States to have flexibility on this....
With romney's signature on it.
http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/112/2005_Romney_Letter.pdf
From that letter:
The Senate bill provides states with the flexibility to manage their TANF programs and effectively serve low-income populations. Increased waiver authority, allowable work activities, availability of partial work credit and the ability to coordinate state programs are all important aspects of moving recipients from welfare to work.
Here is the letter the republican governors wrote in 2005 regarding the need for the States to have flexibility on this....
With romney's signature on it.
http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/112/2005_Romney_Letter.pdf
I'd like to see Newt weigh in on this.
He could make short work of this.
Number of weeks for which job search counts as work.—
(i) Limitation.—Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection, an individual shall not be considered to be engaged in work by virtue of participation in an activity described in subsection (d)(6) of a State program funded under this part or any other State program funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)), after the individual has participated in such an activity for 6 weeks (or, if the unemployment rate of the State is at least 50 percent greater than the unemployment rate of the United States or the State is a needy State within the meaning of section 403(b)(6)), 12 weeks), or if the participation is for a week that immediately follows 4 consecutive weeks of such participation.
Work Activities Defined.—As used in this section, the term “work activities” means—
(1) unsubsidized employment;
(2) subsidized private sector employment;
(3) subsidized public sector employment;
(4) work experience (including work associated with the refurbishing of publicly assisted housing) if sufficient private sector employment is not available;
(5) on-the-job training;
(6) job search and job readiness assistance;
(7) community service programs;
(8) vocational educational training (not to exceed 12 months with respect to any individual);
(9) job skills training directly related to employment;
(10) education directly related to employment, in the case of a recipient who has not received a high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalency;
(11) satisfactory attendance at secondary school or in a course of study leading to a certificate of general equivalence, in the case of a recipient who has not completed secondary school or received such a certificate; and
(12) the provision of child care services to an individual who is participating in a community service program.
I believe he already did weigh in...I saw something last night on it....you can probably google it....and find what he said.I'd like to see Newt weigh in on this.
He could make short work of this.
Here is Section 407 of the Social Security Act which describes the work requirements to qualify for TANF.
Number of weeks for which job search counts as work.
(i) Limitation.Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection, an individual shall not be considered to be engaged in work by virtue of participation in an activity described in subsection (d)(6) of a State program funded under this part or any other State program funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)), after the individual has participated in such an activity for 6 weeks (or, if the unemployment rate of the State is at least 50 percent greater than the unemployment rate of the United States or the State is a needy State within the meaning of section 403(b)(6)), 12 weeks), or if the participation is for a week that immediately follows 4 consecutive weeks of such participation.
This means if you look for a job for more than 6 weeks out of the entire year, nothing after that period counts as work and will not qualify you for welfare. Or if you look for a job for 5 weeks in a row, only 4 of those weeks count.
If you have been out of work for 8 weeks and are busting your ass looking for a job, that does not count.
Here is section 6d which describes what counts as work. Keep in mind, according to the section I quoted above, nothing in 6d counts if you have been doing it for more than 6 weeks in the whole year, or for more than 4 weeks in a row.
Work Activities Defined.As used in this section, the term work activities means
(1) unsubsidized employment;
(2) subsidized private sector employment;
(3) subsidized public sector employment;
(4) work experience (including work associated with the refurbishing of publicly assisted housing) if sufficient private sector employment is not available;
(5) on-the-job training;
(6) job search and job readiness assistance;
(7) community service programs;
(8) vocational educational training (not to exceed 12 months with respect to any individual);
(9) job skills training directly related to employment;
(10) education directly related to employment, in the case of a recipient who has not received a high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalency;
(11) satisfactory attendance at secondary school or in a course of study leading to a certificate of general equivalence, in the case of a recipient who has not completed secondary school or received such a certificate; and
(12) the provision of child care services to an individual who is participating in a community service program.
