Page: Plan Won't Gut Welfare Reform (leave it to Mitt Romney to be blatantly false!)

[Divine Discontent]

Plan won't gut welfare reform
"Ad receives Pants on Fire award from ad groups"
By Clarence Page

Chicago Tribune Tuesday August 14, 2012 5:20 AM

<snipped, because as usual, writers don't realize some of the meat of the argument needs to be seen quickly, this one took several paragraphs down to dispute Mitt>



Whose side is he on? Mitt Romney’s assault against President Barack Obama’s welfare-reform policy sounds good, except that it gets in the way of putting welfare recipients to work.

... Yet, Obama’s waivers might well have been greeted as sound conservative policy, returning power to the innovative laboratory of the states, if they had come from a Republican president. ...

... Team Romney insists that the new Obama policy opens the door to a weakening of work requirements because it allows states to give a higher priority to the type of work recipients take than to their participation rate. “If I am president,” Romney said in Elk Grove Village, Ill., last week, “ I will put work back in welfare.” But the Obama policy explicitly states that waivers will be granted only to proposals that will increase the percentages of cases to be moved off welfare rolls. ...

... At least five governors, including Republicans Gary Herbert of Utah and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, have been seeking such regulatory relief for years, the White House pointed out. In return, the directive offers states a new level of flexibility and breathing room for innovation, something that Republicans and conservatives usually favor. ...

MORE AT LINK ->>> http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2012/08/14/plan-wont-gut-welfare-reform.html




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[Enthusiast]

1. If the Republicans didn't have lies they would have

nothing at all!

Got any WMDs?

[No Elephants]

2. Writers want a job, just like everyone else.

Newpapers are going out of business because people read them online instead of buying, which means their advertisers are leaving in droves, too. Bye bye all sources of revenues.

So, they try to figure out how to make money out of the internet, where advertising is based on number of clicks. They want us to go to the website.


ABC's of even high school journalism classes were that you put everything a person REALLY needed to know--the five w's--who, what, where, when and why-- in the first, or lead, paragraph. You never buried the lead.

The internet has changed that. They draw it out to make it harder for people to eliminate the need to at least click on the link to get the whole story.

I have also noticed many one-line paragraphs, too. Sure, it makes it harder for me to post the meat of the whole story here. That is exactly what it is supposed to do.

As far as welfare "reform," that was a Republican idea to begin with, implemented under DLCer Clinton, whose people then bragged about ending "welfare as we know it." Obama should be the one attacking workfare, not the one saying he is making sure it still exists.

Totally partisan politics ends up making Democrats defend Republican brainchildren, like Heritage Foundationcare and workfare. I don't want to play that game.

[No Elephants]

3. P.S. I should add: Nothing, but nothing, justifies Romney's lies.