President says, "You can't just make stuff up.."

[kentuck]

Romney says, "Oh yes we can..."

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"Fact-checkers on both sides of the aisle will look in the way they think is most consistent with their own views," Romney said. "It’s very clear that others who have looked at the same issue feel that the president violates the provision of the act which requires work in welfare, defines what work is. He guts that, he ends that requirement for those that seek that welfare."

Here is what actually happened: At the request of several states -- including two with Republican governors -- the Obama administration announced in July that it would consider waiving certain federal welfare rules if states have ideas for "demonstration projects" they promise can increase welfare employment outcomes by 20 percent (states are required to maintain certain percentages of welfare beneficiaries in work activities or else face penalties). The administration has not announced that it has issued any waivers.

But instead of saying something to the effect that the administration has potentially removed welfare work requirements, or perhaps opened the door for their eventual removal -- even those phrasings would be a big stretch -- the Romney campaign has been saying, "Obama quietly ended work requirements for welfare."

The ads echo reports by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Ron Haskins, a welfare expert and former Republican congressional staffer who helped write the 1996 welfare reform law, has said Romney's welfare attacks are bogus. "There's no plausible scenario under which it really constitutes a serious attack on welfare reform," Haskins said (though he has also suggested that the Obama administration should not have gone around Congress to give states welfare flexibility).

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/romney-obama-welfare-ads_n_1823462.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. Willard -- the great American liar and fraud