Consistency not being one of Obama’s strong points.
The White House blasted back at the Romney campaign’s attacks on the president’s welfare policies Tuesday, with White House press secretary Jay Carney dismissing the criticisms as “categorically false” and “blatantly dishonest.”
At a campaign stop in the northwest suburbs of Chicago on Tuesday, Romney accused Obama of trying to “reverse the accomplishment” of 1990s-era welfare reforms by granting new flexibility to state welfare programs. The GOP hopeful seized on the changes, which remove the federal work requirement to give states more flexibility on implementation, to argue that the president would foster “a culture of dependency.”
“If I am elected president, I’ll put work back in welfare,” Romney declared.
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