HHS of gutting welfare reform with quiet policy change. This was a very successful program that The Clinton Administration implemented.

by ☆stillthe12c☆ Posted 2012/07/14 00:09:38

Related Topics: Obama, Obama Administration, Clinton, Welfare, Alone

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	Should they have left the program alone. Explain.	11 votes	79%
	No we need to stop pressuring people to find work. Explain	0 votes	0%
	Undecided	3 votes	21%

This was a program that reduced the number of people on welfare and put them to work. I was an extremely effective program. This program should have been maintained as it was. What excuse could the Obama administration have?

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Striker 2012/07/14 00:30:42

Undecided

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Remember the "good old days" when churches and charities took care of welfare? Those days when the People were not overwhelmed by taxation and had money to help those they felt deserving?
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BeHereNow 2012/08/19 16:44:35

Should they have left the program alone. Explain.

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Welfare reform was a farce.
Yes, it reduced the "Cash assistance - you have to work" cases by 90%.
So now they don't have to file for child support, get free housing, medical, food stamps, etc.
90% of the TANF (cash assistance) households have no work requirement, been that way since 2000 or before.
More 'disbled' parents than ever, more grandparents getting teh Cash - no work requirement for them.
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I have 400 cases on my caseload, and a whole lot of them have healthy adults, no disability, and no one works, no need to.
Live off the income of the children, or just live off of social service benefits.
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From 1996 to year 2000, 20 million additional people on SSI.
28 million to 48 million.
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/doc...

SSI, the new cash assistance.

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☆stillt... to BeHereNow 2012/08/19 17:30:37 (edited)

Yes, I know it is a farce in some areas. It depends a lot on what state you are in. I know a girl when they were pressuring her to work part time she decided to finally marry the guy that she had all here children by. She talked him into working 2 jobs to make up for the loss of the money,

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BeHereNow to BeHereNow 2012/08/19 17:33:13

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Correction, SSI increase is from 1996 to 2010, not 2000.

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☆stillt... to BeHereNow 2012/08/19 17:40:04

Thank You!!

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les_gvt 2012/07/14 23:51:28

Undecided

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This was not a "Clinton Administration" change- This was a Gingrich led Congress change.

Clinton vetoed it 3 times

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☆stillt... to les_gvt 2012/07/14 23:57:13

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Yes, I know that Clinton just took credit for it along with Gore.

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JanHopkins 2012/07/14 03:17:54

Undecided

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What else can he do? No jobs = no income = no voting base.

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☆stillt... to JanHopkins 2012/07/14 03:35:10

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The President has stayed in the way of jobs being created. He has also stop Ice from doing their jobs and he has through Home Land Security tell the Border Patrol to run and hide. All he has to do is give out drilling permits and build the pipeline and ask Congress to make E-verify the law of the land. Make every business check all their employees against the government records. He has maintained the immigration of 1 million people for the last 3 and half years. We have hundreds of bridges that need to be repaired or replaced. We have many coal miners losing jobs as generating plants are being shutdown.

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JanHopkins to ☆stillt... 2012/07/14 05:13:28

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I quite agree.

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☆stillt... to JanHopkins 2012/07/14 05:22:56 (edited)

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Ken 2012/07/14 02:41:40

Should they have left the program alone. Explain.

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Actually it was a program that was forced upon Bill Clinton by a Republican Congress and the American people. Clinton vetoed the bill the first two times it was passed by congress with the Dims calling Republicans "mean-spirited" and claiming they wanted to take the food out of babies mouths. Clinton finally signed it the third time it was passed when he realized that close to 70% of the voters favored it. When it proved to be highly successful, Clinton and Gore claimed it as one of their signal achievements -- Gore even used it when he ran for president in 2000 though he had zero to do with it, and Clinton recently lamented that he hadn't gotten enough credit for welfare reform!

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jean to Ken 2012/07/14 03:00:33

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Typical!

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☆stillt... to Ken 2012/07/14 03:02:54

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yes, I remember. Thanks for the reminder as I had forgotten about it. I glad that my friend have far better memories than I do.

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Wolfman 2012/07/14 01:50:56

Should they have left the program alone. Explain.

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There can be no doubt that Obama is trying to destroy the US economy by overloading the welfare system. This is the Cloward-Piven strategy developed at Columbia University. Obie wants to destroy our economy and set us up for a UN bailout and a One World government.

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☆stillt... to Wolfman 2012/07/14 01:59:00

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I am not sure about the UN bailout. I think they will just station their troops forces in strategic places.
He is surely trying to crash the economy and get the chaos he needs to declare a state of emergency to put us under marshal law. Then for our own good the UN will take over.

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Wolfman to ☆stillt... 2012/07/14 02:31:37

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Just like Obie wants people dependent on government welfare, Obie wants America dependent on the UN.

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☆stillt... to Wolfman 2012/07/14 03:06:12

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He is really getting ready for his goal of a one world government. California and L.A. are broke but yet the still funded their gun buy back program. You should have seen all the weapons people turned in. I sat with my head in my hands thinking about what fools they are. They just do not see what is going on, no clue!

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mary E to ☆stillt... 2012/07/15 01:34:26

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I think many will never see the truth of what is happening. If bad times come, I am not sure I would want guns in the hands of people so uninformed they would turn their guns in willingly. These may certainly be the type that would riot and turn their guns on the public.

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☆stillt... to mary E 2012/07/15 01:39:23

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It is a shame!! I know that they are not well informed as to what is going on.

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jackolantyrn356 2012/07/14 01:20:48

Should they have left the program alone. Explain.

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Unemployment went down 50%, The Black Pople were starting to be independent of that ol' Slave on the Plantation mentality....... NOW we have it back to square 1. Obummer will get to play Massa to all the Would be Bl;ack Voters and "Give 'em sompum foo Nuttin"

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Leasheryn/Lady Willpower 2012/07/14 00:45:22

Should they have left the program alone. Explain.

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Obama is taking way too many liberties with our policies. He seems to forget there is a Congress and he's supposed to work with them.

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☆stillt... to Leasher... 2012/07/14 01:09:08

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He verbally has dismissed them.

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Leasher... to ☆stillt... 2012/07/14 01:12:01

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He doesn't have the right to do that. The government was created with three branches to safeguard against this. Each branch is supposed to balance the others so that there is not one branch that is more powerful.

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Wolfman to Leasher... 2012/07/14 01:52:13

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Who is going to stop him?

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Leasher... to Wolfman 2012/07/14 01:56:30

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We are...in November. if we can last that long.

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☆stillt... to Leasher... 2012/07/14 02:01:00

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When he is gone we need the Congress to get involved and tell the next one no to czars.

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Leasher... to ☆stillt... 2012/07/14 02:02:26

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We need to get the democrats out of there so we can get rid of the czars.

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Wolfman to Leasher... 2012/07/14 02:34:17

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I sure hope that someone is keeping track of all these executive orders so that we can repeal them.

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Leasher... to Wolfman 2012/07/18 01:39:36

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I hope so. It's getting way of of control. O'Dictator has been giving executive orders left, right and center.

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Wolfman to Leasher... 2012/07/18 05:15:58

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Obama's EOs should only last as long as his tenure.

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☆stillt... to Wolfman 2012/07/18 05:21:10 (edited)

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Only if The next President write something that supersedes them. This has been done many times and others have been added too. Obama has tied some of them to his own.

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Leasher... to Wolfman 2012/07/19 01:19:19

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Someone should shove them up his (ahem) rear end as he's leaving...so far up, he finds it hard to swallow.

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☆stillt... to Leasher... 2012/07/19 01:25:42

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And let the world watch.

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Leasher... to ☆stillt... 2012/07/19 01:26:24

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It would get a lot of hits on You Tube. :-))

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☆stillt... to Leasher... 2012/07/19 01:30:05

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You Betcha!!

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Leasher... to ☆stillt... 2012/07/19 01:36:14

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Something like that it's likely to show up on CNN or ABC.

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☆stillt... to Leasher... 2012/07/19 01:37:51

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Yes, but they would be all upset and blur the video.

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Leasher... to ☆stillt... 2012/07/19 01:39:31

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I would love to see Diane Sawyer get that upset...maybe even have a nervous breakdown.

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☆stillt... to Leasher... 2012/07/19 01:40:32

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I would want to Hear Bill Mauer.

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Leasher... to ☆stillt... 2012/07/19 01:41:53

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They could have a whinefest together.

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