Romney Camp Rebuffs Clinton’s Criticism On Welfare (Mitt lies)

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Romney Camp Rebuffs Clinton’s Criticism On Welfare

The Romney campaign was unfazed by a statement from former President Bill Clinton that called their attack on President Obama’s new welfare policy was false. The campaign issued a statement doubling down on their accusation that Obama has taken the work requirement out of welfare.

“President Obama was a vocal opponent of the innovative, bipartisan welfare reforms that President Clinton and a Republican Congress passed in 1996,” Ryan Williams, Romney Campaign Spokesman, said in a statement sent first thing Wednesday morning. “His administration has now undermined the central premise of those reforms by gutting the welfare-to-work requirement. Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has a record of fighting to strengthen work requirements. As president, he will ensure that nearly sixteen years of progress aren’t erased with one stroke of a pen.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-camp-rebuffs-clintons-criticism

Dear Mitt, you are a pathological liar.

In 2005, Romney Supported Waivers He Now Claims Will ‘Undermine’ Welfare Reform

By Travis Waldron

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was quick to denounce the welfare reform waiver plan announced by the Obama administration last week. But in 2005, he was one of a half-dozen prominent Republican governors who supported such waivers.

The administration’s plan would provide states with more flexibility to manage their state welfare programs under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the welfare reform package instituted in 1996. Republicans accused the administration of attempting to “gut” welfare reform with the waivers, and Romney agreed. “President Obama now wants to strip the established work requirements from welfare. The success of bipartisan welfare reform, passed under President Clinton, has rested on the obligation of work. The President’s action is completely misdirected. Work is a dignified endeavor, and the linkage of work and welfare is essential to prevent welfare from becoming a way of life,” Romney said.

But in 2005, Romney’s signature appeared on a letter from the Republican Governor’s Association to congressional leadership. The letter states explicit support for welfare waivers:

The Senate bill provides states with with the flexibility to manage their TANF programs and effectively serve their low-income populations. Increased waiver authority, allowable work activities, availability of partial work credit and the ability to coordinate state programs are all important aspects of moving recipients from welfare to work.

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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/18/542121/romney-walfare-waivers-2005/

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1. Oops!

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2. Rmoney was for it now against it, was against it now for it, repeat.

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3. Romney

doesn't support anything. He's an opportunist.

In fact, so are most Republicans. Notice the support was during the Bush years.

Romney is worse.