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Another Answer to the below post "Surprise, Surprise"


Posted: Jun 22, 2017

My first post probably got lost since it was so far down, so I'll just post the linke for that liberal site here:  
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/moneybox/2016/06/how_welfare_reform_failed.html

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But the below was also interesting article (didn't read all the other posts yet so I hope I'm not duplicating someone else's post). I'm only posting a couple paragraphs. You'll have to read the whole article:

Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act 
“First and foremost, [welfare reform] should be about moving people from welfare to work.” – President Bill Clinton, August 22, 1996
 

 
 

Courtesy of the Committees on Ways and Means and Education and the Workforce 

BACKGROUND:

 

Seventeen years ago, a Republican-led Congress worked with President Bill Clinton to fix a broken welfare system. President Clinton rallied the nation to “end welfare as we know it” and his call to action was well founded. Under the old system, 65 percent of families were dependent on welfare for an average of eight years or more, and individuals obtained welfare benefits for an average of 13 years throughout the course of a lifetime. Due to a lack of focus on obtaining work, failed welfare policies left families trapped in a cycle of dependency and poverty. 



THE PROBLEM:

 Despite moving millions of Americans off government dependency and into a job, welfare reform is now under attack from the Obama administration. “Guidance” released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in July 2012 allows states to seek a waiver from the work requirements critical to the success of welfare reform. Under the guise of state flexibility, the president is unilaterally weakening efforts to assist needy families. Flaws with the Obama administration’s waiver proposal include:

  • Waiving critical work requirements without any legal basis. Current welfare reform law provides limited and explicit waiver authority to the HHS Secretary. Nowhere does the law state the secretary can waive Section 407 of the Social Security Act, which outlines federal work requirements. In fact, no administration has claimed it can waive the law’s work requirements since reform was enacted 17 years ago – at least not until now. If Congress wanted to allow the work requirements to be waived, it would have said so in the law.
      
  • Taking us back to the days when some states gamed the system. A 2005 Government Accountability Office study found some states were claiming personal journaling, bed rest, and weight loss as “work activities.” In 2006, Congress required the HHS Secretary to strengthen the department's oversight of how states determine appropriate work activities, as well as on verifying the number of hours worked and determining who is able to work. The president’s waiver scheme could open the door to new abuses of taxpayer dollars under the auspices of more “flexibility” in helping impoverished families. 
       
  • Unwinding years of progress in moving families from welfare to work. More than 12 million Americans are struggling to find a job in the Obama economy. Even in the midst of a persistently weak economy, there are fewer children in female-headed households living in poverty today than before welfare reform was signed into law. Instead of providing support that will help unemployed Americans move into employment, the President’s executive overreach will lead to more dependency for those struggling the most under his failed policies. President Obama should work with Congress on solutions that will create jobs and expand personal opportunity, not circumvent Congress to advance controversial policies that lead to more dependence and less hope for the American people. 

THE SOLUTION:

 

Congress cannot allow the Obama administration to do an end run around the law and roll back critical reforms that have lifted millions of Americans out of poverty. That is why House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), along with Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Steve Southerland (R-FL) introduced the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013 on February 28, 2013. 

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When there is no work, you have to waive the work requirement - I have a great brain!

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I guess I have something in common with the orange kookaid afterall. If you recall, Bush tanked the economy and employment is a lagging indicator. Workers' unemployment was running out eventually and families were homeless. How can you require work when there is no work? Isn't that what the coal miners are all upset about? Anyway the state waiver was to help areas where there was no work--probably the red Republican states where they are so dependent on the government for everything.

"I have a great brain" would be nice if it were - actually used.

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Post is nothing if not comical and loaded with errors, but keep working on your spin till you get it right!

Would be a great start! - Rita in Roma

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Love this post!

Your welcome. I knew you would love it if I quoted your peerless leader. - nm

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We have no work because of regulations imposed on businesses - many of which started hiring part time

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instead of full time t avoid Obamacare regulations.


I have a brain, too, and I use it not to look for partisan politics - but to actually learn what works and what doesn�

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Have you ever owned a small business? We have. The restrictions govt places on us is one of the major reasons we got out. Why do you think companies move offshore? Most people are employed by small businesses.

Another reason. Globalism and competition. Any MT knows this. Brick and mortar retail stores know this. Now when I shop I use the self service kiosks instead of an actual person. Sophisticated tasks done by technology, VR, etc.

The only sector that has grown in the last 8 years is government. They have lucrative pension plans and get paid nicely. Guess who is footing the bill for that?

I'm 60 and guess what? I have learned to weld. It's hard work, but the more you can do for yourself and think outside of the box the better off you will be.


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