Welfare on Townhall

• Focus Should Be on Facts Thu Sep 20
  Jackie Gingrich Cushman
  The challenge for modern-day campaigns is that the rapid speed of the news cycle ensures that new news is created on a daily basis, even when it is not really news. Blame the hunger for something novel and fresh that can eat up time on the 24-hour cable news channels. ... more
• Distractions and Diversions Thu Sep 20
  Cal Thomas
  There's another video, this one of Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a fundraiser in Boca Raton. ... more
• Ed Schultz on Romney: 'He Doesn't Give a Damn' About Needy Tue Sep 18
  America
  After Romney's "47 percent" remark, Ed Schultz claims the presidential candidate could care less about Americans in need of assistance. ... more
• Depending on Dependency Wed Sep 12
  Thomas Sowell
  The theme that most seemed to rouse the enthusiasm of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was that we are all responsible for one another -- and that Republicans don't want to help the poor, the sick and the helpless. ... more
• Social Welfare State, not Limited Government, Failed Agenda of Past Wed Sep 12
  Christina Villegas
  President Obama recently dismissed Republican praise for economic freedom, limited government, and fiscal responsibility as “an agenda that was better-suited for the last century.” ... more
• Gutting Welfare: GAO Says Obama Must Submit Work Requirement Waiver Plan to Congress Wed Sep 5
  Kevin Glass
• The ‘Risk’ of Being Poor Wed Sep 5
  Neal Boortz
  Please stand back. I’ve been waiting for day to say this; waiting to calm down enough that my keystrokes won’t break the keyboard. I heard some lady say something on TV, and seldom have I heard a more idiotic statement from someone in a position to know better … I mean this is so magnificently ignorant – even stupid – that if this woman’s ignorance were radioactive Democrats could build the mother of all nuclear brain bombs. Just one could wipe out all intelligent life on Earth. ... more
• 'Welfare' Means Black People? Tue Sep 4
  New York, NY
  'Welfare' and 'choice' have been added to the list of code words that really mean 'Republicans are racist,' according to these commentators. ... more
• New York Times Fact Checkers: Bed Rest is Work Wed Aug 29
  Ann Coulter
  Poor Mickey Kaus. He's the liberal intellectual (not an oxymoron -- he's the last known living "liberal intellectual") lefties on TV are usually stealing from, but now that this welfare reform maven has concluded that Romney's welfare ad is basically correct, liberals refuse to acknowledge his existence. ... more
• More Welfare Bucks Show Obama’s Failure Wed Aug 29
  Michael Medved
  What does President Obama plan to do to slow or stop the explosive growth in the number of Americans who count on regular welfare checks from the federal government? ... more
• The Truth About Obama and Welfare Reform Sun Aug 26
  Steve Chapman
  The old line is that there's a simple way to know a politician is lying: His lips are moving. Odds are good that any lurid charge leveled against a candidate is largely fraudulent. So it was no surprise that when Mitt Romney accused Barack Obama of gutting welfare work requirements, fact checkers said his trousers were conspicuously aflame. ... more
• Why Should Massachusetts Beg Anyone to Vote? Mon Aug 13
  Jeff Jacoby
  SENATOR SCOTT BROWN is right. For the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be mailing voter-registration forms to nearly 480,000 welfare recipients — at a cost to taxpayers of more than $275,000 — is indeed "outrageous," as the Republican incumbent declared last week. ... more
• Unfit to Govern Fri Aug 10
  Mona Charen
  We have reached a point in the 2012 campaign when you long for a referee -- someone with a whistle to call foul and declare that one side has so discredited itself that it must forfeit points or be otherwise disqualified. ... more
• Romney launching new attack on Obama over welfare law Tue Aug 7
  Reuters News
• Obama Sabotages Welfare Reform Tue Aug 7
  Phyllis Schlafly
  President Obama on July 12 ended welfare reform, the crowning achievement of the Republican Congress of 1996. ... more
• Second Israeli dies in self-immolation welfare protest Wed Aug 1
  Reuters News
• Second Israeli dies in self-immolation welfare protest Wed Aug 1
  Reuters News
• Jackson judge orders probe into children's welfare Fri Jul 27
  AP News
• Obama: I Defy You To Believe What I Said About Business Fri Jul 27
  David Limbaugh
  Obama's desperate protests that his anti-business rant was taken out of context are betrayed both by that very context and because they are a part of a piece -- just one more component of his war against the American entrepreneurial spirit. ... more
• Dick Morris Predicts Romney Will Win Battleground States Tue Jul 24
  New York
  Morris and O'Reilly break down the 2012 campaign. ... more
• Shocker: 83% Support Work Requirements for Welfare Beneficiaries Wed Jul 18
  Daniel Doherty
• Democrats' Ideal Voter: Illegal Alien, Single Mother, Convicted Felon Wed Jul 18
  Ann Coulter
  Before taking the oath of office, Barack Obama vowed to fundamentally transform the United States. He has certainly done so. ... more
• Jeff Sessions: More Americans Are Collecting Disability Than Finding Jobs Wed Jul 18
  Daniel Doherty
• Awful: Obama Turns Back the Clock on Welfare Reform Tue Jul 17
  Guy Benson
• Deliberate Dismantling of Welfare Reform Mon Jul 16
  Morgan Brittany
  As the entire media was foaming at the mouth over Mitt Romney and whether or not he was a “felon”, our President signed another directive that completely gutted the Welfare reform act that was signed into law under Bill Clinton in 1996. ... more
• Our Disgraceful President Sun Jul 15
  Derek Hunter
  It is understandable President Obama would not want to run on his record. Who would? “Give me four more years so I can make up for the first four” is not the stuff of campaign slogan greatness. ... more

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