King Obama Unlawfully Guts Welfare Reform

King Obama has once again demonstrated that he has no regard for our laws. He IS the law. Yesterday, the Anointed One signed an executive order gutting out the Clinton-era welfare reform act that required able-bodied adults to seek employment or take classes in exchange for welfare. With a single stroke of a pen, that hard fought legislation has been tossed into the dustbin of history. But of course, there is a caveat. States must beg the Department of Health and Human Services for a waiver.

The Department of Health and Human Services believes the waivers would help parents “successfully prepare for, find, and retain employment.” The department encouraged states to begin testing a range of new strategies, policies and procedures designed to improve employment outcomes for the needy.

The move gives states the ability to apply for waivers, but those applications would still have to be approved by the secretary. Two states with GOP governors, Utah and Nevada, have submitted requests for a waiver so far, while three additional states, Connecticut, Minnesota, and California, have asked about the potential for waivers.

Waivers have to be approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services? That agency is becoming all powerful. Soon, we won’t be able to wipe our ass without a waiver from a bureaucrat at the DHS.

But what is even more insidious is that Obama’s executive order violates the 1996 law. Rush Limbaugh gave the best explanation:

So how did Obama do this? What was the trick? "The Obama Administration issued a new directive stating that the traditional TANF work requirements can be waived or overridden by a legal device called the section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315). Section 1115 states that 'the Secretary may waive compliance with any of the requirements' of specified parts of various laws. But this is not an open-ended authority: Any provision of law that can be waived under section 1115 must be listed in section 1115 itself. The work provisions of the TANF program are contained in section 407 (entitled, appropriately, 'mandatory work requirements'). Critically, this section, as well as most other TANF requirements, are deliberately not listed in section 1115; they are not waiveable."

Folks we no longer have a representative republic; instead, we’re being ruled by a president with a penchant for executive orders, and an army of bureaucrats who make and enforce laws via regulatory fiat. Is this what democracy looks like? Maybe in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.


Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/upending-welfare-reform-obama-criticized-for-giving-states-more-flexibility/

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/07/13/obama_guts_welfare_reform

Obama's America: Land of the Bureaucrat and Home of the Cowering Populace

I don’t recall a time when I’ve been more concerned for the future of my country as I am now. We Americans have overcome many challenges and hardships throughout our storied history. We’ve been invaded by a foreign country. We’ve had a civil war. We’ve survived a great depression and two world wars. We even faced down the Soviet empire and watched their ideology crash and burn in the trash bin of history. But now we are faced with a foe that is more dangerous and insidious than all the above combined: a federal government that has no constraints.

The Obama administration is infested with a bunch of totalitarians that have no regard for our Constitution. The Secretary of Labor is signing treaties with foreign governments in violation of Article II Section II. Secretary of Health and Human Services is drafting laws and regulations that violate the First Amendment rights of Catholics; and now the Secretary of Defense has just informed Congress that foreign entities have more of a say than our elected representatives when it comes to matters of the military in violation of Article I Section 8.

Let’s face the facts: the Obama administration is a rogue regime. There are serious grounds for impeaching this president and purging ourselves of these contemptible scoundrels who basically have committed a coup.

This coming election is the most important in our nation’s history. If Obama wins, there is no turning back. The land of the free and home of the brave will become the land of the bureaucrat and home of the cowering populace.