Posted on 07/13/2012 7:39:33 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
The imperial Presidency has overturned Congress and the law again. Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the Clinton-era reform.
While this real news occurred yesterday, most of the media remained fixated on political ads and speeches, letting a major and unilateral shift in America’s welfare system go nearly unreported.
Welfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The Heritage Foundation played a pivotal role in building bipartisan consensus for the reform and providing many of the recommendations that became part of the law. The whole point was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.
This reform was very successful. TANF became the only welfare program (out of more than 70) that promoted greater self-reliance. It moved 2.8 million families off the welfare rolls and into jobs so that they were providing for themselves. Child poverty fell, and single-parent employment rose. Recipients were required to perform at least 20–30 hours per week of work or job preparation activities in exchange for the cash benefit.
Now, Obama’s HHS is claiming that it can waive those work requirements that are at the heart of the law, and without Congress’s consent.
(Excerpt) Read more at foundry.org ...
The tipping point of dependency in America approaches....
I’ll say again, after Romney takes the oath of office, he should direct the DOJ to take both his predecessor and Holder into custody as enemies of the constitution and rule of law. No such criminal charge...well, put them in GITMO and get the tribunals ready for both of them.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Translates to more lay offs expected.
A local tv station here in Indianapolis got a computer file of the TANF/EBT card transactions for Indiana recipients.
It was quite interesting, casinos all over the place, Vegas, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Disney (Cali and Fl), yadda yadda.
making it easier for his people to get Obama Bucks ?
bump
Here in LA pot shops take EBT cards because they call pot medicine.
Our tax dollars at work.
Here in LA pot shops take EBT cards because they call pot medicine.
Our tax dollars at work.
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