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Obama, after gutting welfare reform: ‘Americans can’t be looking for handouts’

Yankee Traveler 2012/07/15 13:39:03




President Obama, one day after reversing the Bill Clinton-era
welfare reform by severing the connection between work and welfare
assistance, warned a Virginia crowd that “Americans can’t be looking for
handouts.”





“Americans can’t be looking for handouts,” Obama said during a
campaign stop in Virginia. “There are some folks you can’t help if
they’re not willing to help themselves.” Moments later, he invoked
former President Clinton as a model for economic leadership: “Bill
Clinton did it, and we ended up having 23 million new jobs,” Obama
added.


But he was referring to Clinton’s tax policy, not the welfare reform
bill undermined by his Department of Health and Human Services
yesterday. HHS informed states that they may “test alternative and
innovative strategies, policies and procedures that are designed to
improve employment outcomes for needy families,” rather than enforce the
work requirements attached to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.


“Obama’s suspension of workfare requirements is almost certainly
illegal, a sign of the jobs failure, and a reminder how liberal [O]bama
is,” Newt Gingrich, who negotiated the welfare reform with Clinton as
House Speaker in 1996, said in a tweet.







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  • Dale 2012/07/15 16:01:00
    Dale
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    The folks getting the handouts don't have to look for them. They are given with a push from our Big Brother Government, headed by one Barrack H Obama, President of these here United(?) States of America.
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  • Aqua Surf 2012/07/17 02:36:21
    Aqua Surf
    +1
    LOL, he just lost the welfare vote!
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  • D D Aqua Surf 2012/07/18 08:21:06
    D D
    Why do you say he lost the vote of people on welfare?
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  • Aqua Surf D D 2012/07/18 23:58:51
    Aqua Surf
    Maybe the welfare voters are that stupid to NOT bite the hand of Obama, who just said that they can't count on him for handouts anymore? Personally, I don't believe he's THAT stupid though.
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  • D D Aqua Surf 2012/07/19 04:00:52
    D D
    What Obama did is make it easier to get welfare.
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  • Aqua Surf D D 2012/07/20 19:44:41 (edited)
    Aqua Surf
    Is that why social security recipients haven't had a cost of living increase since he took office-he's giving it all over to welfare? He's a scumbag. Seniors and dependents have to suffer why those welfare jerks spend their checks on booze and drugs. Only in Obamanation.
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  • dick 2012/07/16 19:27:08
    dick
    +2
    Obie is all for wellfare because that is his voter base!
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  • Yankee ... dick 2012/07/16 20:56:07
    Yankee Traveler
    +1
    that and the dead!
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  • Aqua Surf dick 2012/07/19 00:01:28
    Aqua Surf
    He just his 2 faces again and is talking out both sides of his mouth. He'll have them so confused, they'll vote for out of habit. This is classic Obama; tell one group one thing, tell another group something else.
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  • SickOfBigGov 2012/07/16 03:29:26
    SickOfBigGov
    +2
    Obama is pandering for the welfare vote.....So sick of him...
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  • zapped 2012/07/16 00:42:54
    zapped
    +2
    this from Mr. 2 faced food stamp {P}resident ...?

    another double speak speech !

    most likely 2 minutes later said the opposite to another group seeking assistance for votes !

    most folks would rather work than collect any type of assistance ,, but with few viable gainfull postitions avail ,,,what is a person to do ???

    and his campaign promisses to pay mortgages ,,, gasoline well ?????
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  • Wayne 2012/07/16 00:32:49
    Wayne
    +2
    Obama strikes the little guy again!
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  • ★Calliope★ 2012/07/15 22:10:42
    ★Calliope★
    +3
    SIck of Obama.

    He is still out of his depth, fiscally speaking, economically speaking.. Well, speaking in general. You'd think he'd learn after a couple of years. Even Clinton tacked right when the rubber hit the road.

    Obama is STILL clueless and horribly naive. He's a campaigner. Not a leader.

    Obama is just a CAMPAIGNER.
    stupid obama campaigns in bed
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  • CUDDLY BUT STILL CRABBY 2012/07/15 20:40:35
    CUDDLY BUT STILL CRABBY
    +4
    Obama is toast in November 2012. Landslide defeat headed his way, and he knows it. It's the lame duck session that has me worried. He and his handlers will be pulling out all of the stops to kick those legs out from under all of us Americans in the shortest period of time. And with a complacent media, think how much he and company will get away with?
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  • Andrew 2012/07/15 20:17:56
    Andrew
    +5
    Obama, the walking contradiction. He is called a Constitutional Expert as well and yet is constantly Perverting IT!
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  • Muver 2012/07/15 18:50:06
    Muver
    +7
    Apparently, they are all for his buddies the Illegals, and the worthless....Hard working Americans who are legal, but now, thanks to him are without homes, and jobs will just be kicked to the curb, and if you are in your seventies, you are totally SOL thanks to his ever thoughtful BozoCare....how soon will this TWIT be gone...!!!
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  • ScottyG - Faqueue 2012/07/15 18:49:46
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +7
    And yet he runs ads to get more Americans on food stamps? Hypocrite times 1,000,000,000.
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  • Icono1 2012/07/15 18:02:39
    Icono1
    +6
    The 0bie is utterly clueless.
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  • mac9 2012/07/15 17:20:51
    mac9
    +4
    You can expect no less from a MORON!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Murph 65 2012/07/15 17:04:30
    Murph 65
    +6
    "Americans can't be looking for handouts." He doesn't mean one whit of this sentence, it's purely political rhetoric to buy himself some votes from the right and/or libertarians. Somehow, somewhere, there's going to be new taxes attached to this. This guy does not change his spots and his sports are more people on the government dole, and more, and more, and more.
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  • Karen E 2012/07/15 16:13:51
    Karen E
    +7
    he depends on gratitude for the crumbs he throws............
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  • ed Karen E 2012/07/15 16:18:17
    ed
    +4
    I've got some gratitude for him.He can stick one of these up his ass stick this corn cob up your ass obama
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  • CUDDLY ... ed 2012/07/15 20:38:32
    CUDDLY BUT STILL CRABBY
    +2
    Ouch ............. I can't even imagine ................
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  • Dale 2012/07/15 16:01:00
    Dale
    +8
    The folks getting the handouts don't have to look for them. They are given with a push from our Big Brother Government, headed by one Barrack H Obama, President of these here United(?) States of America.
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  • Murph 65 Dale 2012/07/15 17:06:16
    Murph 65
    +2
    Heck, these days he doesn't even have to push, you just have to go to whatever website has been created to "give" assistance. The more the merrier on some sort of gov handout for these guys - it equals lots and lots of votes and almost assures "no going back."
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  • Maj. C. D. Hardy 2012/07/15 15:58:26
    Maj. C. D. Hardy
    +6
    Alas more pearls of wisdom from the Hippocrate-In-Chief!!!!
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  • Risk 2012/07/15 15:30:28
    Risk
    +8
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  • Murph 65 Risk 2012/07/15 17:06:55
    Murph 65
    +2
    Now that's a great sign and one with plenty of truth.
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  • Muver Risk 2012/07/15 18:47:36
    Muver
    +3
    AMEN to this,,,,and now all the thousands of illegals pouring over the unprotected borders, now that he has closed down so many border patrol areas....
    reply
  • jimmy d 2012/07/15 15:24:57
    jimmy d
    +5
    I never thought I say it but: i miss bill clinton
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  • Murph 65 jimmy d 2012/07/15 17:07:58
    Murph 65
    +2
    Bill was a bubba, but he was smart and he understood working with the other party, as well as some economics. Today's dummies don't understand the economics part at all, or they do not care.
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  • jimmy d Murph 65 2012/07/15 18:54:50
    jimmy d
    +3
    He WORKED WITH Newt Gingrich instead of having temper tantrums and pointing fingers...

    obama baby can t get his way
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  • Murph 65 jimmy d 2012/07/15 19:20:05
    Murph 65
    +1
    I agree, and great sign :)
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  • maggiemay 2012/07/15 15:21:16
    maggiemay
    +7
    Prime example of locking the barn door after the cow has ripped through the neighbors garden, and has been running amuck for days. The man is a loon.
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  • Kane Fernau 2012/07/15 15:17:26
    Kane Fernau
    +6
    Clinton cut the capital gains taxes then the economy improved.
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  • dave b 2012/07/15 15:11:06
    dave b
    +4
    Typical. Obama says one thing and does another.
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  • Donna 2012/07/15 15:00:03
    Donna
    +4
    That's why many of the long term unemployed in my state have to wait in line because of Obama tax breaks given to hire welfare people first ... and these are people who arent even looking for a job. He is a very screwed up individual.
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  • gogleer 2012/07/15 14:55:47
    gogleer
    +5
    O-bama for unearned entitlments,
    For green waves of tax-payer cash,
    For pure American disdain
    Above the fruited plain!
    America! America!
    O-bama shed his entitlments on thee
    And crown thy free-loaders with divisiveness
    From sea to shining sea!
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  • D D 2012/07/15 14:49:59
    D D
    +3
    Liar. Double talk. Learning the art from the Iranians and his buddies the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  • Steverno~POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/07/15 14:47:32
    Steverno~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    +4
    With Obama,you have to watch what he does.Verses the tripe he says on the campaign trail.

    Obama lier
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  • Aurora 2012/07/15 14:38:57
    Aurora
    +2
    Hypocrisy abounds with Omen and his USA destroying policies.
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