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Related: About this forumThe Truth-O-Meter: Romney says Obama's plan for Welfare Reform: 'They just send you a check.'
The Truth-O-Meter Says:
"Under Obamas plan (for welfare), you wouldnt have to work and wouldnt have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check."
Mitt Romney on Monday, August 6th, 2012 in a campaign ad
Mitt Romney says Barack Obamas plan for welfare reform: "They just send you your check."
Our ruling
Romneys ad says, "Under Obamas plan (for welfare), you wouldnt have to work and wouldnt have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check."
That's a drastic distortion of the planned changes to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. By granting waivers to states, the Obama administration is seeking to make welfare-to-work efforts more successful, not end them. Whats more, the waivers would apply to individually evaluated pilot programs -- HHS is not proposing a blanket, national change to welfare law.
The ad tries to connect the dots to reach this zinger: "They just send you your welfare check." The HHS memo in no way advocates that practice. In fact, it says the new policy is "designed to improve employment outcomes for needy families."
The ads claim is not accurate, and it inflames old resentments about able-bodied adults sitting around collecting public assistance. Pants on Fire!
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/aug/07/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-barack-obamas-plan-abandons-tenet/
"Under Obamas plan (for welfare), you wouldnt have to work and wouldnt have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check."
Mitt Romney on Monday, August 6th, 2012 in a campaign ad
Mitt Romney says Barack Obamas plan for welfare reform: "They just send you your check."
Our ruling
Romneys ad says, "Under Obamas plan (for welfare), you wouldnt have to work and wouldnt have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check."
That's a drastic distortion of the planned changes to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. By granting waivers to states, the Obama administration is seeking to make welfare-to-work efforts more successful, not end them. Whats more, the waivers would apply to individually evaluated pilot programs -- HHS is not proposing a blanket, national change to welfare law.
The ad tries to connect the dots to reach this zinger: "They just send you your welfare check." The HHS memo in no way advocates that practice. In fact, it says the new policy is "designed to improve employment outcomes for needy families."
The ads claim is not accurate, and it inflames old resentments about able-bodied adults sitting around collecting public assistance. Pants on Fire!
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/aug/07/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-barack-obamas-plan-abandons-tenet/
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The Truth-O-Meter: Romney says Obama's plan for Welfare Reform: 'They just send you a check.' (Original Post)
flpoljunkie
Aug 2012
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ejpoeta
(8,933 posts)1. No one just sends you a check. I live in NY and have been on assistance
and never has anyone just sent me a check. You have to prove to them that you are looking for work. They don't care if any job you get your paycheck wouldn't even cover the daycare costs. If you can get a job and mcdonalds for minimum wage they expect you to do that. So no one just sends you a check. And I am in NY so i can imagine what it's like in more 'conservative' states.
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Esse Quam Videri
(685 posts)3. The ad just ran here in Co.
Obama's team better get out in front of this with a response quickly.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)5. Fast work from the lying plutocrat!
bemildred
(90,061 posts)4. "just like you were a corporation, but smaller."
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)6. Did you expect the truth?
They're grasping at straws, and in a big time panic attack mode. I love it. Stupid is as stupid does.