President Obama Re-Elected - Page 346

On August 29 2012 09:24 Defacer wrote:


Nuts, are you watch the RNC right now?

I'm still at work. :/

On August 29 2012 09:16 Derez wrote:
I love how members of the most priviliged class in the US are creating this myth that their lives are 'hard'.

(We built it!)

Also, president Obama has never run a lemonade stand and thus can't understand small business. The ironic part is that Obama is a small business owner himself.

On August 29 2012 09:29 Falling wrote:

But Romney understands small business. Has he ever been a small business owner? Seems he's big business more than anything. Unless he ran a lemon stand as a child.

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Listening to this speaker.
The one thing I don't get and maybe I'm over simplifying. It seems that generally they say government can't create jobs, businessess do. But then they turn around and say that Romney created jobs as governor.

On August 29 2012 09:29 Falling wrote:

But Romney understands small business. Has he ever been a small business owner? Seems he's big business more than anything. Unless he ran a lemon stand as a child.

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Listening to this speaker.
The one thing I don't get and maybe I'm over simplifying. It seems that generally they say government can't create jobs, businessess do. But then they turn around and say that Romney created jobs as governor.

On August 29 2012 07:16 BluePanther wrote:


And going on the route we're going on now is even worse. Whine all you want, but it's a step in the right direction.

On August 29 2012 09:38 xDaunt wrote:

The language is sloppy at times, but the point that they are trying to make is that government doesn't create jobs so much as government interferes with job creation. Thus, Kasich and Romney "created" jobs by removing government-created impediments to private job creation.

On August 29 2012 09:38 xDaunt wrote:

The language is sloppy at times, but the point that they are trying to make is that government doesn't create jobs so much as government interferes with job creation. Thus, Kasich and Romney "created" jobs by removing government-created impediments to private job creation.

RNC Primetime Speaker Gave Extensive PowerPoint On How To Build Your Business With Government Money
Small business woman Sher Valenzuela, who is running for Lt. Governor in Delaware, is giving a primetime speech tonight at the “We Build It” themed day of the Republican convention. Valenzuela gave a PowerPoint-presentation to the Wilmington Women In Business forum in April entirely focused on working with the government to get government contracts to build your business. Media Matters also found she gave a similar presentation again in May.

On August 29 2012 09:23 Saryph wrote:


The section about them banning abortion even if the pregnant woman's life is at risk.

The HHS memo

Since 1996, welfare has been administered through block grants to states. The grant program, called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF, limits how long families can get aid and requires recipients to eventually go to work. It also includes stringent reporting requirements for states to show they are successfully moving people into the workforce.

A memo from George Sheldon, acting assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the department wanted to give states more flexibility in meeting those requirements. The memo notifies states "of the Secretary’s willingness to exercise her waiver authority ... to allow states to test alternative and innovative strategies, policies, and procedures that are designed to improve employment outcomes for needy families."

What does that mean?

"If you can do a better job connecting people to work, we would consider waiving certain parts of the performance measures and use alternate measures," is how Liz Schott, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, translated the memo’s point. (The center supports the plan.)

Schott, who studies welfare policy, said TANF sets guidelines for what activities may count toward meeting the law’s work requirements: jobs, job training, internships or school, to name a few. Beyond that, it puts restrictions on how many hours a welfare client may spend at school, or how many consecutive months they can attend before that activity no longer counts toward the work requirement.

The result: "States are running less-effective programs than they might be because they are so driven by performance measurement as it’s set forth in the federal law," Schott said.

Waiving work requirements, gutting reform?

The waivers, then, would allow for flexibility. For example, someone with a special-needs child might require different work arrangements than are currently allowed. Or a person who needs to improve his or her English skills might require more time to take classes.

"The real starting place is: What’s the most effective program to get this person to work?" Schott said.

On August 29 2012 09:54 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Not to mention the building they are in was built via public/government funds.

On August 29 2012 10:34 Defacer wrote:
I wonder what xDaunt is thinking about when he listens to Santorum link pro-life to the American Dream.