re: #202 Obdicut

I did show it. You ignored what I wrote. I will say it again. Romney is talking about welfare. Or rather, “work-fare”. About preventing the “moral hazard” that if we just give people money they will lose the drive to better themselves by working.

I don’t know how old you are. You are aware of the 1996 welfare reform? en.wikipedia.org

This law gave the states block grants and required that the states implement workfare. Each state has some latitude in terms of how they implemented it.

In the clip, Romney is talking about what he advocated for his state to put in place to implement that law. Listen to the clip. He says, “In my state, following welfare reform…” I don’t know if he is talking about what he said when he ran for Senate or what he tried to do as governor, but that is what he is talking about.

Please acknowledge that Romney is talking about what requirements to place on people on welfare — only them — to have jobs, regardless of whether they be men or women or if they have kids. He is not talking about everybody or about women in general. If you are not going to deal with what he is actually saying we cannot have a conversation.

This has nothing to do - nada - with whether non-welfare stay at home moms know anything about the struggles of women who have jobs. Nada.