Des Moines Register: Romney’s Welfare Attack False.

[maddezmom]

Des Moines Register: Romney’s Welfare Attack False


On the same day that VP candidate Paul Ryan plans to attack President Obama for taking the work requirement out of welfare, the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, the state’s largest paper, called the welfare attacks false.

“Everyone agrees Americans collecting ‘cash welfare’ should meet work requirements. And they do,” the editors write. “A recent policy tweak to the program by President Barack Obama’s administration does not undermine that. Yet Mitt Romney can’t pass up this one.”

It continues:

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee wants voters to conjure images in their minds of freeloading moms sitting on couches watching big screen televisions. And he wants voters to think the president is helping them do just that.

Then there is reality.

Only about 15,000 Iowans actually receive a meager monthly check from Uncle Sam. Collecting an average of $334 a month for less than two years probably is not covering utilities and school clothes, let alone putting anyone on Easy Street. Requirements are so stringent, the program that once served more than 14 million Americans now helps only about 4 million.

more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/iowa-paper-calls-romney-welfare-attack-false

[ProSense]

1. And the

President is there calling him out on the farm bill and as at the face of the do-nothing Congress:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021123345

[flakey_foont]

2. Who are his fact checkers? the 3 Stooges?

everyday, it seems, there is some new Romney ad, or statement, or claim that
someone points out is (sometimes blatantly) false.
Mitt, are you incapable of honesty??

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. People that learned long ago ...

that the gop base and most undecided "independents" don't care about facts.

"If the evening news reports that someone said it it, it must be true! And I believe the first report that I hear ... no need to look into it any further; I have a life to lead and I'm late for my second part-time job!"

[progressivebydesign]

5. Yes. He's a 'win at all costs" person. Tripping his DIL, cheating in family games, lying blatantly..

his GOP opponents can tell you that he lies to achieve whatever he's set his sights on. Whether it's a 3-legged race at his family mansion's waterfront lawn, or running in a primary. His lies come from a place of expecting that he will have everything he wants. That he will always win, and will win regardless of what it takes.

[tk2kewl]

3. K&R