Found by Peggy
Steelworker Featured at DNC Didn’t Work for Bain Capital: “ABC News breaks a story that one of the three featured speakers supposedly deprived of a job by Bain Capital is just a union negotiator who never worked for a Bain-financed company. The Democrat Party deliberately misrepresented steel union negotiator David Foster as someone who worked under the Romney-controlled Bain Capital.” Full story and video here: http://www.ijreview.com/2012/09/15151-steelworker-featured-at-dnc-didnt-work-for -bain-capital/
Here is another Obama whopper proving even the “fact checkers” were wrong.
Robert Rector: How Obama is gutting welfare reform
By ROBERT RECTOR
To hear Bill Clinton tell it, theres no truth to the charges that President Barack Obama gutted welfare reform. The White House, fact-checkers and some journalists have said the same, playing down Obamas decision to exempt states from the laws work requirements.
Working closely with members of Congress, I helped draft the work requirements in the 1996 law, and I raised the alarm on July 12, when the Obama administration issued a bureaucratic order allowing states to waive those requirements. The law has indeed been gutted. Heres how:
The 1996 welfare reform law required that a portion of the able-bodied adults in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program the successor to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program work or prepare for work. Those work requirements were the heart of the reforms success: Welfare rolls dropped by half, and the poverty rate for black children reached its lowest level in history in the years following.
But the Obama administration has jettisoned the laws work requirements, asserting that, in the future, no state will be required to follow them. In place of the legislated work requirements, the administration has stated, it will unilaterally design its own work systems without congressional involvement or consent. Any state will be free to follow the new Obama requirements in lieu of the written statute.
The administration has provided no historical evidence showing that Congress intended to grant the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or any part of the executive branch the authority to waive the TANF work requirements. The historical record is clear and states the opposite; as the summary of the reform prepared by Congress shortly after enactment plainly says: Waivers granted after the date of enactment may not override provisions of the TANF law that concern mandatory work requirements.
The members of Congress closely involved in drafting this law have asserted that Obamas action contradicts the letter and intent of the statute. For 15 years after welfare reform was enacted, no waivers of work requirements were issued by HHS. No such waivers were discussed because it was clear to all that Congress had never provided the department with such waiver authority.
Full story here: http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20120911/OPINION02/709119985/0/news12