FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON unloaded on Team Romney late Tuesday after they unleashed a welfare ad against Pres. Obama that was patently false. The proof was laid out earlier today.
From Pres. Clinton:
“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. “
Love the verbs, Taylor. “Slams” “Unloaded”
Bill Clinton is a noble spirit. Unfortunately the histrionic & resentful Republican base that Mr Romney seeks to impress with his ad will neither be persuaded nor impressed with his gentle turn of phrase. They don’t do subtle.
heh-heh…
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relates to this topic how?
Big dawg BARKS!