BIG LIE by Gecko about Obama Gutting Welfare Reform

[boutons_deux]

Former President Clinton Blasts Romney’s ‘Disappointing’ New Welfare Claim: ‘That Is Not True’

Governor Romney released an ad today alleging that the Obama administration had weakened the work requirements of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. That is not true. [...]

The recently announced waiver policy was originally requested by the Republican governors of Utah and Nevada to achieve more flexibility in designing programs more likely to work in this challenging environment. The Administration has taken important steps to ensure that the work requirement is retained and that waivers will be granted only if a state can demonstrate that more people will be moved into work under its new approach. The welfare time limits, another important feature of the 1996 act, will not be waived.

The Romney ad is especially disappointing because, as governor of Massachusetts, he requested changes in the welfare reform laws that could have eliminated time limits altogether. We need a bipartisan consensus to continue to help people move from welfare to work even during these hard times, not more misleading campaign ads.

In reality, the Obama administration is simply giving states the ability to experiment with new work programs, along the lines of a reform that Romney himself requested in 2005.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...omney-welfare/

Maddow is her usual all out destructive on Gecko's Big Welfare Lie:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908...show/#48561849

Barry is effectively giving the states MORE ROOM to experiment with how to get people off welfare and back to work, exactly as Gov Gecko and other Repug Governors asked for several years ago.

[mercos]

I don't have a problem with lying ads anymore, they are just a part of politics. I'm smart enough to be able to look up the truth. I thought it was a bit hypocritical for Romney to criticize the steel worker ad while he was airing this one though. Its all really irrelevant now though, as Obama and his surrogates are about to blanket the country in "Paul Ryan wants to kill Medicare" ads. He and Romney are about to find out why senior en lements are called the third rail of American politics.

[DarrinS]

Lol thinkprogress
Lol msnbc