Showing posts with label Obama’s welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama’s welfare. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Obama’s welfare debacle

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Mitt Romney is hammering President Obama on welfare reform, and for good reason. The 1996 welfare reform legislation was overwhelmingly popular, was a great bipartisan achievement, stands as a policy success and comports with Americans’ deepest values about personal responsibility and the work ethic. And Obama tosses that aside, for reasons that still seem perplexing. Is there some anti-work welfare contingent out there? It’s inexplicable both on policy and political grounds.
So Romney is taking full advantage. He was in Illinois yesterday:
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