Fox is reporting that the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is rewriting the Clinton welfare reform law of 1996 by waiving the work requirement it imposed. They are returning welfare to free money without a work requirement. I want the details of this new policy.

Welfare reform was one of the big reforms of the Clinton years.

There was another one but I can't remember where. You have a tendency to hit and run with your 'fact checks' then just ignore any counter arguments.

I know California made GAIN (welfare-to-work, with training etc.) non-compulsory - because it was much more expensive than just handing out free money (in the short run). I'm going to go way out on a twig and guess this is happening in other cash-strapped states and FNC is somehow blaming Obama. Real stretch I know.

It's all about context: someone who said people who enough money for every luxury in the world can afford to pay more in taxes.

I responded: the tax cuts affect more than just people who can afford every luxury in the world. It affects people who make as little as $250k.

You responded with your question about how much they are affected. Answer I don't know. Probably not much. But it's also not relevant to the point I was trying to make: the tax hike doesn't just affect those who can afford every luxury in the world. It affects a lot of people who, while they make a lot of money by most standards, certainly can't afford every luxury in the world.

Well, everyone else in the thread knows exactly how much someone making exactly $250k is going to pay extra if Obama has his way.

Amazingly everyone in this thread is wrong. An individual making $250,000 may see his taxes increase. An individual making $250,000 will only see no increase in taxes if he is married and his wife makes no money.

Obama has called upon Congress to keep the tax cut for individuals making less than $200k and families making less than $250k.

Doesn't that like, bother you or something? It's a math problem.

It's not even like Obama is proposing some radical new policy, he's advocating a return to tax rates that existed in the US during your lifetime. How can you not know?

No one knows. The bill hasn't even been written yet.

That shoving the cigar into her hooha is such an ugly term. I far prefer to say he used the intern as a humidor.

A+

yeah this really is bull **** mitt trying to claim no responsibility for anything that happened at a company he was CEO of cuz he wasnt paying attention to it. josh marshall makes that point...http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archive....php?ref=fpblg

and more josh marshall...http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archive....php?ref=fpblg

Star Obama supporter doesn't know about **** Obama's done, she confesses:

"I don't know, because I'm a star I don't know about all this ****."

whats really ridiculous is the fact checkers buying this argument. CEO not responsible cuz he was working hard elsewhere. what really is great for obama is romney has lost the ability to argue bain is great and outsourcing is american, or whatever he was trying to say at first, when he is explaining with his exculpatory "i had nothing to do with it" well then "it" must be bad. to think we owe this all to newt. mitt didnt want to release even one tax return. look for "what else is he hiding" all summer as new **** comes to light.

uh huh anatta, really don't think this is having the effect you think it is.... or that anyone outside of dailykos mouthbreathers give a ****.

RMoney is just so incredibly unlikable. This isnt helping.

really. u dont think "do u think working for bain is a positive or negative" will take if not a major hit in the negative, at least continue to drag on him? its a big story thats not going away and its mitts only strong quality, businessman. kennedy ruined him with it. obamas team accused him of a felony today during a conference call. thats not newsworthy beyond kos. uh huh. he cant brag about bain and jobs anymore he is defensive saying "i know nothing" how is he gonna pivot to i know how jobs are created with this relentless assault that is coming?

btw anatta just recently noticed u talk to everyone else who disagrees with ur narrow idiotic white bread view of the world with the same ass hole style as u talk to the great one and honestly he hasnt read anything from u that is true, insightful, clever or cool. ur just sad and everyone seems to think so. but maybe ur next 50000 post will have something worth reading.

ikes,

it is a right wing myth that voters like rich jerks.

Absolutely. ****ing. Amazing.

When Riverman and I riff on conservatives being baffled by marginal tax rates, do you have any idea what we're talking about, or that we're talking about you? Or is it like with a three-year-old where you can just say whatever you want and if they don't hear their name they just tune it out?

If Obama raises taxes 4% on the top marginal tax rate, which starts at $250k for a family, how much more does a family making $250k have to pay?

I don't follow politics that closely, but from the last few days it does seems like Obama's campaign is going to be based around showing Romney as a racist rich guy. All I have heard on the news all day is Romney may be a felon and he is racist. Going to be fun to watch after labor day.

well after the speech to NAACP he got around his folk at a fundraiser and broke out a "you people" meaning the negroes just want free stuff...not quite that bad but umm this guy isnt a good politician man imo. he hasnt been saying anything so the gaff a week isnt on display but this guy man his team is slow, off message, and he cant campaign for votes with people.

I've written down my answer, but I am going to wait for gusmahler to respond first.

As an Independent that has leaned Republican most elections, this is a lock for Obama. Romney is the biggest mouth-breathing moran I have ever seen. Not that people think Obama is our great savior anymore, but they still think he is better than the alternative.

Plus Obama's wins against the Somali Pirates and getting Osama make him strong on national security, so the biggest fear card the republicans can throw at him is already void.

What part of the country you in Shoe? Hoping you are not in OH,VA, FL.......

A Walker supporter in WI that will not be voting for Romney, and there are a lot more like me.

The party needs to change it's social values big time and Romney will be just as bad fiscally as Obama, so I'd actually prefer they lose and hopefully moderate some.