Fucking Welfare Queens

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130. "But your right, let's go back to the halcyon day's of the 80's" - cut the crap

But your right, let's go back to the halcyon days of the 80's, welfare was going real well back then.

Absolutely NOTHING, NOTHING I said indicated I wanted to go back to the halcyon days of the 80's, or that I thought welfare was going real well back then. NOTHING. I pay $14,000/year in federal income and state income taxes, and it sucks. I am a taxpayer, not a tax-eater. Giving a waiver on some 10 hour (if that's the number, where do you get that, by the way????) to the single mom with 3 kids to get through med school sooner rather than later is to save the taxpayers money, so that she transitions from tax-eater to taxpayer sooner. There is NO GOOD PURPOSE to putting her on some kind of county make-work project like looking for the teeniest bit of litter in an already very clean park (where I live there are far more people assigned to community service than there is real work to do).

By the way, have you done ANYTHING to look into what the real story is, rather than circulating some RW deliberately and grossly misleading half truths? ANYTHING?????.

Again, do you think Obama, before an election, decided to become a bleeding heart liberal and ban work requirements? NO HE DID NOT.

Do you think those 29 governors, including Romney, wanted waivers because they are secretly bleeding heart liberals that think people should sit on their asses all day? If you think that, well, never mind. Well, to put it nicely, I think you are really gullible to fall for these RW deliberately grossly misleading half-truths without even a bit of skepticism or curiosity. Just swallow whatever you hear on right wing hate radio, or right wing hate TV, or right wing hate email.

Have you even looked at the letter to find out why waivers might be a good idea in their minds? Obviously you didn't. Because all you seem to want to do is circulate RW crap.

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Obama Administration Defends Change to Welfare-to-Work Program, By REBECCA BERG, 7/19/12
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/obama-administration-defends-change-to-welfare-to-work-program/

In a letter dated Wednesday and signed by Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, the agency called its proposal one that “strengthens the law’s purpose to move people off of welfare and into jobs by utilizing state-based innovation. ... Our goal is to accelerate job placement by moving more Americans from welfare to work, and no policy which undercuts that goal or waters down work requirements will be considered or approved by the department,” the letter read.

... At issue is a directive released last week that would enable states to experiment with changes to their welfare-to-work programs, primarily as a means to bypass burdensome paperwork and reporting requirements. The letter to Mr. Camp and Mr. Hatch clarified that waivers would only be granted if states aimed to increase work placement by 20 percent, and waivers would be rescinded unless states demonstrated “clear progress toward that goal” within the first year.

... Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Jay Carney, White House press secretary, maintained that the “administration opposes any effort to undermine those [work] requirements” and called Republican opposition “hypocritical.” (and the article goes on to mention the 2005 letter signed by 29 governors, and also last year by 5 governors - 2 of them Republican)

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Here's the ***** 29 Republican governors' 2005 letter. Basically they are saying the federal law is a patchwork mess and that Congress isn't able to fix it because of politics, so let the states deal with it.

http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/112/2005_Romney_Letter.pdf

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Actually, I think Obama caved to the Republicans by letting them increase the work requirements and tighten up on other rules. But the RW noise machine turns that into a propaganda campaign about Obama -- the Kenyan Mau Mau Socialist food stamp president -- ending the work requirement.