Last night, former President Bill Clinton claimed that President Obama had not gutted welfare reform. Clinton proclaimed that Obama would actually strengthen welfare reform by urging states to increase the number of people moving “from welfare to work” by 20 percent.
What is Obama really doing? In July, the Obama Administration illegally declared that it would waive all the work requirements in the 1996 welfare reform law. State welfare bureaucracies will no longer be obligated to obey the federal work requirements written in that law.
The Obama Administration will put in mothballs the formal purpose of welfare reform—to reduce the number of people dependent on government benefits. The Administration will abandon the legislative performance goal that encourages states to reduce welfare caseloads. It will weaken the “work participation” standards that require some 30 percent of able-bodied Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients to engage in work activities for 20 to 30 hours per week.
Even worse, the Obama Administration will “waive compliance” with those work participation standards entirely and replace them with alternative standards designed unilaterally by Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucrats without congressional input or approval. It will encourage states to use those new standards “in lieu of” the work requirements written in the statute. In other words, HHS explicitly plans to jettison the work requirements provided in the law and replace them with an alternative reform model.
What is that new model of reform? HHS asserts that states will be exempted from work “participation rate requirements” (requiring welfare recipients to engage in work activities) if they raise the number of individuals leaving welfare for work (called “employment exits”) by 20 percent. Clinton defended this by saying, “The requirement was for more work, not less.”
Read More at heritage.org. By Robert Rector.
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Dear Bill “Slick Willey” Clintoon; (reminds me of a cartoon character every time I see his slimey face grinning as he’s lying to people)
It was only 4 short years ago that you were telling us what a loser & an unqualified ignorant monkey Obozo was to be prez of the U.S. (not that your socialist, communist, Marxist wife was any better for the job, but I digress) My question for you is this; WERE YOU LYING TO US THEN, OR ARE YOU LYING TO US NOW ???
My guess IHateLyingPoliticians…would be both times…
@ Proud American, Yep, NO DOUBT… every time he’s flapping his gums, lies are coming out of his fat pie hole. I’d give $1,000.00 if I could smash that lying P.O.S. right in the face…
SNIFF! SNIFF! Do I smell a Hillary wanting to run or the smoke that is being bellowed out of Billie boys mouth? Looks like billie boy the democrat is kissing butt. Next to the military spending is the welfare.
O’dummer is gutting his program. Read the executive orders on wiki’s public records on O’bummers presidency. Sorry Billie boy. Hillary will lose out in 2016 because of her tampering with the 2nd amendment rights.
Looking at his smug face all I can see is him taking advantage of a young intern, many times over, desecrating the oval office of the white house, with his pants around his knees. Who with any sense of decency can take this liars comments ” I did not have sexual relations with that woman” serious. What a shameful soul who broke the trust of the American people, let alone the honor of the Chief Executive of our great nation. Lied to Congress, lied to everyone, and still walking the streets a free man. Where would you be had you done the same?