Baracko Trashes Clinton Legacy

Hard Prog WH an equal opportunity offender

A coalition of Republicans in the House and Senate vowed to preserve the work requirements at the heart of welfare reform after the Obama administration announced last week it would illegally gut the 1996 law. Lawmakers could vote in the coming days on a plan that prohibits the administration from implementing its unilateral action.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a policy directive on July 12 that grants waiver authority for the work requirements in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

The new directive give states the authority to waive work requirements, “opening the door for activities like bed rest, smoking cessation and exercise to be counted as work,” the lawmakers warned. Congress specifically excluded this action when it adopted the law in 1996 to prevent abuse.

The administration’s move provoked a swift reaction on Capitol Hill.

(full story at hotair.com)

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(story at moonbattery.com)

Collectivist Hands Never Take Enough

You didn't build that, and you screwed-over those who did

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Baracko Pimps Marxism at Roanoke

WH position on property, ownership likened to traditional collectivism

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A Roanoke Manifesto

"Look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.

If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."

- U.S. President Barack H. Obama, at Roanoke, VA 7/13/12

Felix Dzerzhinsky, Stalin-Beria, Harry Gold

On this day: July 20

Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by B & O Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths (1877)

The troops sent by Grover Cleveland to Chicago to end the Pullman Strike are recalled (1894)

Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, wounding fifty; Seattle police led by the mayor police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen, and the governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks (1934)

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief (1941)

Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs (1950)

b: Frantz Fanon (1925), Barbara Mikulski (1936); d: Pancho Villa (1923), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1926)

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