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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton delivers closing remarks at the International AIDS Conference.
The latest line of attack from the Romney campaign says that Barack Obama wants to abandon President Clinton's welfare reform policies. Now Bill Clinton himself is saying that the Romney's claim is false.
"Governor Romney released an ad today alleging that the Obama administration had weakened the work requirements of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act," Bill Clinton said in a statement released Tuesday night. "That is not true."
He went on, "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."
You can read the full statement, via the Huffington Post, here.
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What MSNBC wont tell you is Obama added to the list of what is considered work under welfare. he added out rages thing as bed rest, reading a book, getting a massage, siting at home with your kids, going shopping, going out to eat, talking on the telephone surfing the Internet, getting a hair cut, and the list goes on
So basically you are right he didn't take the work requirement out of welfare he just added the things we normally do on a every day basis as work so you basically can sit at home and go about your business of not working and it would be considered work
"Whitey," Computer says, "No."
At issue is a directive released last week that would enable states to experiment with changes to their welfare-to-work programs, primarily as a means to bypass burdensome paperwork and reporting requirements. The letter to Mr. Camp and Mr. Hatch clarified that waivers would only be granted if states aimed to increase work placement by 20 percent, and waivers would be rescinded unless states demonstrated “clear progress toward that goal” within the first year.
But, since then, a nontrivial number of Republicans have supported waivers for states to tailor their welfare-to-work programs. In 2005, Republican governors penned a letter to Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, backing waivers for states. Last year, five states, including two — Utah and Nevada — with Republican governors, urged the health and human services department to consider allowing waivers.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/obama-administration-defends-change-to-welfare-to-work-program/
Obama spending binge never happened
Rex Nutting
Commentary: Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.
As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.”
Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.
But it didn’t happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.
Even hapless Herbert Hoover managed to increase spending more than Obama has.
Here are the facts, according to the official government statistics:
• In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. Check the official numbers at the Office of Management and Budget.
• In fiscal 2010 — the first budget under Obama — spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.
• In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.
• In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.
• Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion. Read the CBO’s latest budget outlook.
Over Obama’s four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%.
There has been no huge increase in spending under the current president, despite what you hear.
Why do people think Obama has spent like a drunken sailor? It’s in part because of a fundamental misunderstanding of the federal budget.
What people forget (or never knew) is that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress. The president only begins to shape the budget in his second year. It takes time to develop a budget and steer it through Congress — especially in these days of congressional gridlock.
The 2009 fiscal year, which Republicans count as part of Obama’s legacy, began four months before Obama moved into the White House. The major spending decisions in the 2009 fiscal year were made by George W. Bush and the previous Congress.
Like a relief pitcher who comes into the game with the bases loaded, Obama came in with a budget in place that called for spending to increase by hundreds of billions of dollars in response to the worst economic and financial calamity in generations.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor
Adding to TheRealChris's excellent comment...AND half of that "huge stimulus bill" was tax cuts for the 95%.
Clinton has called out the liar, wrong way willard.
Harry Reid is David and used his sling shot to fire on Golieth......with the little rock that is heard around the country. Put up or shut up missfit romney.
I was never a Clinton fan during his presidency, but I sure want to thank him now. High time some high official called out this liar! His entire campaign has been nothing but lies about Obama!
Why can't he tell us his policy? Why can't he say HOW he thinks he could create jobs? Oh....wait.........wait....I forgot........he has no plan and no policy except to give himself and his peers a bigger tax break!
My bad. I forget....I guess I forget because it is mid-August and reason and sanity are still missing from the Romney campaign. Oh, ......wait....something else is misssing, too.................wait...His TAX returns! Where are they???
What a lame, obnoxious, weird candidate he is! How can anyone want him in the white house. Bill Clinton's draft dodging never sat well with me and Romney got four deferments. Who in the military wants a draft dodger as their commander-in-chief?
How do you know it isn't true? robmehood is known for lying all the time so how are we to take robmehoods word on anything after all when robmehood was governor he demanded to get the state an exemption for the work requirement in Clintons welfare reform.
Romney is the only official in government who suddenly hates his very own ideas!
The righty, "The people has called out the liar, Harry Reid."
REALLY? Harry Reid has been in the Senate for years and this is the first I've heard him called a liar! Who are these people you say are doing this? Shawn Hannity? Bill O'Reilly?
Are they calling the real liar a liar, also?
"Whitey," The POTUS said HypoMitt was the REVERSE RobinHood. You do know what reverse means don't you? Perhaps you need to pick up a dictionary? That's why he's calling him "RomneyHood," and not "RobinHood."
Stop listening to Rush. He quibbles. While you're looking up 'reverse' in the dictionary why don't you look up 'quibble,' and 'idiot,' as well as they all apply to you.
Romney lies repeatedly:
"Even as we face the most serious economic crisis of our time, even as you are worried about keeping your jobs or paying your bills or staying in your homes, my opponent's campaign announced earlier this month that they want to 'turn the page' on the discussion about our economy so they can spend the final weeks of this election attacking me instead," Obama said in the speech. "Sen. McCain's campaign actually said, and I quote, 'If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.'"
So the comment is drastically different than the way it's portrayed in the Romney ad. Obama was actually saying that his opponent's campaign three years earlier had said, "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose." That context is not included in the Romney ad -- and leaving it out sends a profoundly different message.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-obama-said-if-we-keep-talking-abo/
Oh, so Romney Hood wants to change the discussion to the Republicans' favorite "whipping boy," the people who are the victims of the Bush Recession and are using food stamps or 'welfare,' from those of his ilk that through tax laws, steal from the poor to give to themselves -- the rich. But today, there are more middle class families who have fallen into the category they are trying to disparage, and they know how hard it is to be on food stamps and welfare while not working, so it won't wash this time. The people want jobs and the Republicans want the White House.
Well remember it was Reagan who created generations of welfare people when he took the US off the industrial based economy and put it on a service economy ensuring that workers no longer got a living wage.
the righty is having some brain lost, dont you remember the bush era.
Mitt Romney and his Presidential campaign talk of this
magical Direction to recovery that his presidency and policies will bring the United States
back to an economic recovery and world prominence. Well I believe that Abraham
Lincoln said it the best. That you can foul some of the people some of the time
but you can not foul all of the people all of the time Mr. Romney take note.
Thank you Bill Clinton for calling-out Romney on his lies!!!
EVERY Romney ad must be attacked by not just the truth, but with the drip, drip, drip, of "Where are your taxes Mitt? Whatcha hidin' Mitt?"
Nibble MRomney to death on where are your past taxes, particularly in September-October.