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To: dforest
I am a good student.

You could learn a little about not judging people, forgiveness, and talking to others with respect.

51 posted on 04/14/2012 6:00:24 PM PDT by true believer forever (GO NEWT! On to Tampa - hang tight - we can do this!!)
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To: true believer forever; dforest

More on Newt’s conservative accomplishments...Mitt is not even in Newt’s class. Welfare reform

A central pledge of President Bill Clinton’s campaign was to reform the welfare system, adding changes such as work requirements for recipients. However, by 1994, the Clinton Administration appeared to be more concerned with universal health care and no details or a plan had emerged on welfare reform. Gingrich accused Clinton of stalling on welfare, and proclaimed that Congress could pass a welfare reform bill in as little as 90 days. Gingrich insisted that the Republican Party would continue to apply political pressure to the President to approve welfare legislation.[46]

In 1996, after constructing two welfare reform bills that Clinton vetoed,[47] Gingrich and his supporters pushed for passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which was intended to reconstruct the welfare system. The act gave state governments more autonomy over welfare delivery, while also reducing the federal government’s responsibilities. It instituted the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which placed time limits on welfare assistance and replaced the longstanding Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Other changes to the welfare system included stricter conditions for food stamp eligibility, reductions in immigrant welfare assistance, and recipient work requirements.[48]

Gingrich negotiated with Clinton by offering accurate information about his party’s vote counts and by persuading conservative Republicans to vote for it.[47] The bill was signed into law on August 22, 1996.

In his 1998 book Lessons Learned the Hard Way, Gingrich encouraged volunteerism and spiritual renewal, placing more importance on families, creating tax incentives and reducing regulations for businesses in poor neighborhoods, and increasing property ownership by low-income families. Gingrich praised Habitat for Humanity for sparking the movement to improve people’s lives by helping them build their own homes.[49]
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61 posted on 04/14/2012 6:18:05 PM PDT by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: true believer forever

I don’t believe it was me on this thread calling people names. I just gave my opinion even though I was called moron and other names.

This is an election, not a church service. I propbaly know quite a lot about forgiveness due to struggles in my own life. I did learn that forgiveness doesn’t really come with a promise of elevation to be leader of the country. While a person can be forgiven for personal faux pas, that doesn’t mean there are no consequences to our actions that we end up paying for like it or not.

Perhaps you could repeat your post to some of your Newt supporters as far as treating others who disagree with respect. It does go both ways.

There is no law that says I have to respect Newt’s political history. While he is a good debater at times, he also has some past that is not very conservative. I really do not like his personality either. Sorry, I just don’t.


69 posted on 04/14/2012 6:35:23 PM PDT by dforest
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