To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (140681 ) 8/11/2012 6:59:11 PM From: PROLIFE 1 Recommendation Respond to Obama increases dependency Food-stamp president guts welfare reform for votes federal government Obama administration White House Department of Agriculture county's social services department White House federal government Federal spending for food stamps has more than doubled since Mr. Obama took office. In 2008, about 28 million Americans received food stamps. Today, that number is more than 46 million, nearly 1 in 6 Americans. In this era of trillion-dollar deficits, the Obama administration saw fit to spend up to $3 million of taxpayers’ money in radio ads to get more Hispanics and working poor on food stamps. The president’s signature legislative accomplishment, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare to most of us, dramatically expands Medicaid. Spending on Medicaid, the nation’s health program for the poor, is projected to increase by an additional $434 billion per decade. So far, five states have expanded Medicaid under Obamacare, resulting in 500,000 new enrollees to the program. Imagine how many millions more will be enrolled once the Obamacare law is fully implemented. Most recently, the Obama administration quietly announced it would waive the work requirements written into the 1996 welfare reform law. The bipartisan legislation, which was signed into law by President Clinton, mandates that able-bodied people must work or be preparing for work as a condition for receiving welfare. The law has been a success, dramatically lowering poverty and cutting the number of welfare cases in half. While the impact of the administration ’s decision on the number of people receiving welfare is not yet known, the outcome is easy to predict: less self-reliance, more government handouts. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/10/obama-increases-dependency/
