The Welfare Gambit by Charles M. Blow

There have been desperate attacks from the Romney campaign team targeting President Obama’s social welfare policy. Romney himself has stated that Obama has instituted measures that will drop the work requirements of individuals, enabling workers to get employed in jobs for which they have not been trained. This can be seen as an attempt to discredit Obama’s welfare policy which is designed to ensure that there are more employment opportunities for the unemployed Americans as well as reducing poverty. This is something that no Republican government has succeeded in doing and the Romney campaign’s claims have no basis in fact. It can be said that these attacks were made due to the desperation of romney’s team in a bid to gain mor ground against the Obama campaign. This is despite the fact that many Republican governors have applied for or requested funds and waivers from the federal welfare program which was instituted by the President. Furthermore, these persistent statements by Romney conserning welfare can be considered to be untrue because during his term as governor, he offered welfare recipients even more generous packages than what Obama is offering. This might be Romney’s attempt to gain the confidence and votes of the more conservative members of the Republican party who would otherwise not have voted for him. It might also be viewed as a way of trying to bring together all the different factions of the Republican party so that it can show a united front when backing him for his presidential bid.

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