Obama’s Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform

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Morning Bell: Obama’s Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform

 

Amy Payne

July 13, 2012 at 9:14 am

 

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The imperial Presidency has overturned Congress and the law again. Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the Clinton-era reform.

While this real news occurred yesterday, most of the media remained fixated on political ads and speeches, letting a major and unilateral shift in America’s welfare system go nearly unreported.

Welfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The Heritage Foundation played a pivotal role in building bipartisan consensus for the reform and providing many of the recommendations that became part of the law. The whole point was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.

This reform was very successful. TANF became the only welfare program (out of more than 70) that promoted greater self-reliance. It moved 2.8 million families off the welfare rolls and into jobs so that they were providing for themselves. Child poverty fell, and single-parent employment rose. Recipients were required to perform at least 20–30 hours per week of work or job preparation activities in exchange for the cash benefit.

Now, Obama’s HHS is claiming that it can waive those work requirements that are at the heart of the law, and without Congress’s consent. Read More

 

http://foundry.org/2...welfare-reform/

[Pepper]

@Geee

http://www.therightreasons.net/index.php?/topic/41046-ending-welfare-as-we-know-it/page__hl__welfare__fromsearch__1

 

 

@Draggingtree

 

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/13/morning-bell-obamas-imperial-presidency-guts-welfare-reform/

 

Watched a bit of Tommy Thompson on Huckabee last night.

 

He's right. Someone needs to be taking Sibelius to court. She nor Obama has no right to overturn the directive.

 

 

 

Punish the worker, reward the shiftless and lazy. It's the Democrat way, doncha know.

[Geee]

@Pepper. One must watch what Tommy does, not what he says He will probably be the Republican Senate candidate to replace Kohl and I will probably have to vote for him, but I won't like it and neither will most of the conservative Republicans in this state. People who will vote for him in the primary will do it solely on name recognition and really don't pay attention to the facts. The fact that he is a RINO is why he managed to stay the Governor of Wisconsin for so long. He appeared with Dick Gephardt on national TV speaking up for the passage of Obamacare, now he has commercials all over the air saying how he will repeal it!! He was the beginning of the large debt that was carried on by his Democratic successors, that Walker is now fixing. Consensus among people here who 'really' know the candidates is Fitzgerald, Hovdne, Neumann, then Thompson. The polls show Thompson-Hovdne-Neumann-Fitzgerald. Our Primary is Aug 14th.

[Pepper]

Thanks, @Geee

 

he must be a politician then, I take it.

 

: )

[Geee]

Thanks, @Geee

 

he must be a politician then, I take it.

 

: )