Romney's latest Bain diversion: Archie Bunker attacks on 'welfare'
IMO Republicans LOVE to find new scapegoats every election campaign. in order to divert attention from their corrupt devotion to their wealthy owners, their rewards for offshoring of jobs, and the rest of the ways they continually weaken the American economy.
IMO it's no coincidence that in the middle of Romney's worst Bain crisis to date, Republicans are going WAY back to appeal to lesser-educated white males with Archie Bunker stereotypes of people on 'welfare'--people whose numbers have fallen to just 28 percent of what they were in 1994.
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From http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/07/republicans-cry-foul-over-obama-welfare-revisions/1 :
"Republicans cry foul over Obama welfare revisions
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
The Obama administration has opened the door to changes in the welfare system's work requirements, a section of the 1996 welfare-to-work law that Republicans consider sacrosanct. The Department of Health and Human Services notified states Thursday that Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would consider waivers 'to allow states to test alternative and innovative strategies, policies and procedures that are designed to improve employment outcomes for needy families.'
The welfare law, which went into effect in July 1997 and is celebrating its 15-year anniversary, employed strict work rules and time limits on cash assistance. The law, combined with state experiments of the early 1990s and the hot economy of the late 1990s, helped slash welfare rolls from more than 14 million in 1994 to 4 million today. Progress has slowed in recent years, and states have complained about work rules that tie them down in paperwork. So the administration seeks to unleash another era of experimentation. ...
'Federal rules dictate mind-numbing details about how to run a welfare-to-work program. Most states and experts agree that these aren't helpful,' says a statement just issued by George Sheldon, acting assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families. 'Many states report that their caseworkers are spending more time complying with federal documentation requirements than helping parents find jobs. We need state workers spending less time filling out data reports and more time helping parents find employment.' ...
Republicans don't see it that way.... 'The Obama administration is proposing to let states effectively eliminate (the work requirement),' said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich. 'This is a brazen and unwarranted unraveling of welfare reform. This ends welfare reform as we know it.' ...
By midday Friday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was pointing the finger directly at Obama. 'The president's action is completely misdirected,' Romney said. 'Work is a dignified endeavor, and the linkage of work and welfare is essential to prevent welfare from becoming a way of life.'"
