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Related: About this forumFull Statement by President Bill Clinton on Governor Mitt Romney’s New Television Advertisement
Statement by President Bill Clinton on Governor Mitt Romneys New Television Advertisement
New York, NY-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 act emerged after years of experiments at the state level, including my work as Governor of Arkansas beginning in 1980. When I became President, I granted waivers from the old law to 44 states to implement welfare to work strategies before welfare reform passed.
After the law was enacted, every state was required to design a plan to move people into the workforce, along with more funds to help pay for training, childcare and transportation. As a result, millions of people moved from welfare to work.
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.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/08/clinton_swipes_at_romney_welfare_fib.php?ref=fpblg
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Full Statement by President Bill Clinton on Governor Mitt Romney’s New Television Advertisement (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Aug 2012
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Someone needs to make a Liars R Us ad about Mittens.
They'll say anything to get the public's mind of Bane and Tricky Mitt.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)2. We all KNOW why Romney did this.
Republicans have been saying for years to their angry white male base in the suburbs and rural areas that the main reason their taxes are high is because they're paying into welfare so some black guy can kick back and watch cable TV and smoke crack. This feeds into the idea that more of them can join those ranks permanently.