Yesterday: Gut the welfare reform passed by Clinton. Today: You can't be looking for handouts.

[Yossarian]

Yep, hope and change...for welfare queens. I'm looking forward to hearing what Bill Clinton has to say. Not sure why Obama revoked the work requirement for welfare. He's likely got that vote wrapped up.

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"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.

 

http://washingtonexa...article/2502100

[carlfense]

http://www.offthecha...welfare-reform/

 

Indeed, it will strengthen welfare reform by giving states greater flexibility to test more effective strategies for helping recipients prepare for, find, and retain jobs — and measure their accomplishments in more meaningful ways than the current system allows.

 

The conservative complaints are ironic, to say the least. For one thing, they beg an obvious question: why would anyone oppose efforts to merely test whether there are better ways to connect people to jobs? For another, the complaints are coming from some of the same people who usually argue for giving states more power to run programs and who often seek state waivers in other programs.

 

[bshirt]

The "welfare check in every mailbox" sounds great in affluent times. But that time is past.