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Rush: Obama waives work requirement for receiving welfare
The Rush Limbaugh Show | 7/13/12 | Rush

Posted on 07/13/2012 10:26:13 AM PDT by pabianice

Per Rush (reading): Obama's HHS yesterday announced a change to the welfare act of 1996. The requirement to work or look for work has been deleted from the welfare reform act of 1996 by Executive Order, specifically the dependent child section.

Per Rush, the 1996 act worked. It cut welfare applications by 50% because of the requirement to work or look for work. Obama has done away with that requirement yesterday with a stroke of the pen. Of course, this garners him millions of more votes in November.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
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News from Capital Hill is that Boehner is crying and McConnell wet his pants.
1 posted on 07/13/2012 10:26:21 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
Cloward-Piven.

It's his only goal.

2 posted on 07/13/2012 10:28:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: pabianice

Congress. So inconsequential.


3 posted on 07/13/2012 10:31:21 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: pabianice

Obama is pushing his agenda full-bore.

Either he thinks he’s going to lose anyway and is gumming up the works as fast as possible.

Thinks his opponents are so gutless they won’t be able to stop him. Romney won’t be able to stand up to the media firestorm and boo-hoo anecdotes with which they’ll flood the airwaves.


4 posted on 07/13/2012 10:34:28 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

so who is gonna pick up the tab, the taxpayer of course, why bother for work when you can roll up and get welfare without having to prove anything, the welfare queens can sit on their asses all day now and not move.


5 posted on 07/13/2012 10:37:54 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: pabianice

http://www.foundry.org/2012/07/12/obama-guts-welfare-reform/
“Obama Guts Welfare Reform”


6 posted on 07/13/2012 10:40:39 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: P.O.E.

Certainly a brilliant way to fire-up Obama’s “base.”


7 posted on 07/13/2012 10:40:48 AM PDT by pabianice
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Certainly a brilliant way to fire-up Obama’s “base.”

True, although a certain percent of his base does work. This may backfire with that small percent.

Sidenote: I heard someone say on one of the talk shows that if Repubs could get even 8% of the black vote, that would be enough to win. Not sure about that theory or the numbers.

8 posted on 07/13/2012 10:44:17 AM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: pabianice
News from Capital Hill is that Boehner is crying and McConnell wet his pants.

You got that right. Geez. Nothing has changed from the 90's.

9 posted on 07/13/2012 10:49:12 AM PDT by Pete (29thday.org Exponential problems require exponential solutions)
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To: pabianice

So when will zero just go ahead and proclaim himself “king” (by executive order)?


10 posted on 07/13/2012 10:49:31 AM PDT by jeffc (Welcome to the United Socialist States of America)
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To: pabianice
There is no possible doubt now. The man is really trying to bankrupt this country and corrupt its former freedom-loving citizens into a dependent,subservient role.

No doubt whatsoever now.

11 posted on 07/13/2012 10:52:16 AM PDT by Gaffer (NOVEMBER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: pabianice

Obama’s base:

“I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know, if I help him, he’s gonna help me.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg98BvqUvCc


12 posted on 07/13/2012 10:53:20 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: pabianice

It ain’t reparations if ya gotta work for it,

and workin’ is slabery.


13 posted on 07/13/2012 10:56:48 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: pabianice

...so with the stroke of a pen he took away Bubba’s ONLY accomplishment in 8 Years


14 posted on 07/13/2012 11:03:55 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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So when will zero just go ahead and proclaim himself “king” (by executive order)?

Right before some highly motivate whack-a-do says, "Enough".

15 posted on 07/13/2012 11:10:04 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (My dog, yes. My wife, maybe. My gun....NEVER!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Everything Obama does leaves me applying the “Five Why’s” Rule. The outcome leaves the reality that this president is incredibly simple, not very cognizant of alternate reactions of others than who he micro-identifies, suffers from real hatred of individual liberties, and is in love with only himself.
16 posted on 07/13/2012 11:14:49 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: pabianice

The requirement to work or look for work has been poorly enforced by this administartion to begin with.

There are jobs out there, but employers are flooded with on-line resumes of people who have no intention of working, but who are simply following through with a poorly enforced requirement.

People who really want to work can’t get an interview.

I have no doubt whatsoever that Obama is enabling the lazy to party off of the hard work of others. But those who are unemployed and want to work will find it easier to get an interview.

Meanwhile, the dependency class becomes more dependent.


17 posted on 07/13/2012 11:19:57 AM PDT by kidd
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To: pabianice
Barry's Amerika! The Land of the Free Stuff! Whadda country!

Daddy Barry says, Vote for me and I'll make sure you never have to work or pay a bill again!

18 posted on 07/13/2012 11:22:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Help reduce voter fraud in America! If you see something, say something!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Isn’t this just an attempt to shore up his lagging base? It will not get him new voters or even return the lost ones.

As for the work requirement: I’ve known people who had to take disability just to get extreme medical costs covered. They were actually limited as to how much they could earn and if they earned over and received medical care, had to reimburse the system for the overage they had earned. One told me she wished she could work more and still get the medical coverage for her chronic disease. Now, it is even more difficult, as she must travel 50 miles to a VA center for medical care. I was surprised, but then someone else told me that low-income Medicaid patients are routinely treated at the VA.


19 posted on 07/13/2012 11:44:29 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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...but then someone else told me that low-income Medicaid patients are routinely treated at the VA.

Yikes! Now there is something that I've never heard. Taxpayer funded IHS (Indian Health Services)hospital really put the squeeze on their patients to force them onto state Medicaid. It's like the taxpayers are paying for those medical services twice.

20 posted on 07/13/2012 11:51:03 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Help reduce voter fraud in America! If you see something, say something!)
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