" Gutting Welfare"

For Three week in a row, A new television commercial  airing ,staring Mitt Romney claimed President Barack Obama was dropping the work requirements  in the law for the federal welfare-to-work program. Since 1996 the welfare recipients were required to work. Some say that  July 12th, President Obama secretly ended work requirements and is practically " gutting welfare reform" . One of Virginia's leading newspapers called Obama " Nuts" and also stated that  " If you want to get more people to work, you don't loosen the requirements – you tighten them. Mitt Romney's plan for a stronger middle class will put work back in welfare" . The news paper is called Richmond Times-Dispatch , The daily news for Virginia's capital city. I don't think Obama would really do that especially if he's all about helping the middle  . Later that week the Obama campaign responded to the commercial and stated that "The Obama administration has strengthened the welfare to work requirement, not weakened it. " and " "Mitt Romney continues to run ads that independent news organizations, former President Clinton, and the Republican co-author of welfare reform have said are not true." Towards the end of the week a come back commercial aired showing that the Mitt Romney's campaign commercial was incorrect .  The commercial  also included  "See this? Mitt Romney claiming the president would end welfare's work requirements? The New York Times calls it 'blatantly false'. The Washington Post says: 'the Obama administration is not removing the bill's work requirements at all." The funny part about this issue is that it seemed like Romney isn't all about facts but rumors.   http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/20/romney-attacks-obama-over-welfare-in-third-campaign-commercial/