(The Root) -- There continues to be vigorous debate between the Obama administration and supporters of the work mandate contained in sweeping welfare-reform legislation crafted in 1996 by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton. The argument stems from the decision by the federal Department of Health and Human Services that it can grant waivers to states relating to the law's mandated work requirements for welfare recipients.
this gets complicated due to the letter of the law which nowadays is subject to the total population being the number of interpretations, but the one's that matter are the one's that mislead and misinform.
Given that last year the president said, "We're going to look every single day to figure out what we can do without Congress," this waiver policy quickly became one more example of the president's effort to expand executive power by picking and choosing which laws his administration will enforce (recall the president's decision to no longer enforce the Defense of Marriage Act?).
His actions sparked an immediate war of words and accusations across the political spectrum. As the Atlantic noted: "To liberals -- including, perhaps, then-state Sen. Barack Obama, who opposed federal welfare reform at the time -- this is just what they feared welfare reform would do: make sorely needed government benefits less available to those who need them most. But to conservatives, the fact that fewer people are on welfare now proves that reform has worked."
but listen to convention you'll never hear anything remotely suggesting any success even though the right wing keeps forgetting, "it's on video tape stupid". they will claim the "Obama failures" would they have been had they not proclaimed to the world their intent to do absolutely nothing to give him points BTW that includes any assist to the American's they helped put in their present existence. the country is on the wrong track to corporate domination code words the base being mislead.
