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U.S. Senate REVERSED Major Obama Law. He’s Reportedly FURIOUS!
Tea Party ^ | 3/15/2017 | Angry Patriot Movement Staff

Posted on 03/16/2017 4:23:43 AM PDT by HomerBohn

Piece by piece President Trump is going to dismantle all of the unbalanced policies Obama put in place.

The Senate has now passed some legislation that will see a rule from the Obama administration reversed. As a result, states which are trying to stop unemployment benefits from going to drug users will have the power to do so returned to them. (via Washington Examiner)

The Obama law was closely repealed by a Senate vote of 51-48.

This rule had only allowed states to refuse unemployment benefits to people who were involved with the pipeline management or transportation industries, people who deal with firearms in their line of work, or people who undergo drug tests as part of their law.

This law punished people who are actually going to return to work, and forced states to let drug users abuse the system.

The Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatchg had this to say on the issue when on the Senate floor: “The final regulation defined the role of an occupation so narrowly that it basically makes it impossible for states to implement any meaningful drug-testing policy.” (via Congressional Record)

Now that this silly rule has been repealed, there is now scope for the Labor Department to redo the rules so states will actually benefit from this type of policy.

Democrats are worried that there are going to be too many hurdles put in place for people to receive unemployment benefits.

Though they are claiming that people legitimately looking for work are going to be effected, there’s just no evidence to support that. If these people are doing nothing wrong, then they will get what they are entitled to.

Welfare fraud is too big of an issue in our country to ignore. Tens of thousands of people on a daily basis defraud the system. This sees taxpayer money go to people who don’t need it and don’t deserve it. These people become lazy and do not push themselves to find new work, especially if they also abuse drugs.

We the People should not be forced to foot the bill for people so they can load up their stash and get high all day. This reversals in the first step in ensuring this will no longer happen.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obozolaw
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To: Clutch Martin

Call your Congressman.....these govt payout agencies do not like to be forced to explain to a Congressman why their constituent was denied benefits.


21 posted on 03/16/2017 5:01:46 AM PDT by Liz (DNC Chair Perez's new Democrat slogan: Join us, or we'll sue Trump. W w)
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To: mdmathis6

It is such a scam. You have to get an attorney to get it through. Cant remember who pays lawyer. Does it come from the benefit or does SS pay for it.

Same thing happened to me with medicaid. Couldn’t get it through with bogus excuses...but once an attorney took over using same exact info..got it approved so the nursing home could get paid.


22 posted on 03/16/2017 5:02:19 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: yldstrk

Most social programs get federal dollars for each recipient. It’s all like the federal lunch program for schools, more money for law breakers and unethical people.


23 posted on 03/16/2017 5:10:13 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: yldstrk; Clutch Martin

When I was working for a social services agency and brought up an issue about money claims being paid where they maybshouldn’t be, I was informed that the agency didn’t care, one of its raisons d’etre was to get money into people’s hands. Redistribution.


Not only do the recipients need to reapply and start over, the agencies locally need to be appropriately staffed. Maybe some firings and retirings are in order.


24 posted on 03/16/2017 5:13:22 AM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Its not stupidity,

Obama is a reprobate,

The biblical definition of one,

He is a Sunni Marxist Muslim Homosexual, not necessarily in that order, a willing empty vessel host carcass for the globalists NWO who give him his power,

Always doing those vile loathsome things that don’t make sense to a sound mind, only to another just like him,

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; . .” Romans 1:28


25 posted on 03/16/2017 5:17:37 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Neoliberalnot
I would wonder what color she is? Make no mistake, Africans are afforded preferences at all levels of government, an extension of affirmative action is another name for this racial favoritism.

I've noticed that.

26 posted on 03/16/2017 5:18:22 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
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To: captmar-vell

We are in synch here brother.


27 posted on 03/16/2017 5:22:15 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: HomerBohn

Did anybody hear of this when 0bama enacted it?


28 posted on 03/16/2017 5:22:32 AM PDT by wastedyears (Prophecy of sky Gods, the sun and moon)
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To: Russ

In 2024 the true right wing will have to present a candidate much like Trump and as dynamic.


29 posted on 03/16/2017 5:23:23 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys are similar in that thorwing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face.)
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To: HomerBohn

Yup - and if the Rats get the WH and a majority again, the fixing the mess will stop.


30 posted on 03/16/2017 5:25:23 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: RummyChick

“It is such a scam. You have to get an attorney to get it through. Cant remember who pays lawyer. Does it come from the benefit or does SS pay for it.”

You pay for it.
The lawyer files the papers and makes a call or two to the appropriate people.
When your claim is approved the lawyer gets a percentage of the initial lump settlement (the Back pay to the date you first applied) and everyone is happy.
You finally get some money coming in.
The lawyer gets a check.
The SS worker can say they forced the claimant to get a lawyer.

It has become, to them, a well known, finely choreographed dance.


31 posted on 03/16/2017 5:35:36 AM PDT by oldvirginian (This Space For Rent)
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To: oldvirginian

I would like to see Trump try to change this. It has been going on for decades.

There is something inherently wrong with that system.


32 posted on 03/16/2017 5:50:59 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: HomerBohn
people legitimately looking for work are going to be effected,

They are manufacturing those people? or just causing them?

33 posted on 03/16/2017 5:54:38 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: headstamp 2

A friens’s brother uaes his SSI (he is batshit crazy) to buy drugs. Then he begs from his siblings.


34 posted on 03/16/2017 6:02:09 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Clutch Martin

[[True story: A friend of mine has a wife who had suffered a major stroke and could not return to her job as a registered nurse. So they went to Social Security and filed a claim for disability. This claim ended up in a courtroom for disability approval and she was denied disability yet she still cannot to this day function in a work environment. That said,there are people in the state they reside who are drug addicts and do receive disability from the same court, and the same decisions that my friend’s wife was denied. That family has struggled for years trying to make ends meet. Perhaps now there is a chance that this woman can receive some sort of disability to help the family in the near future.]]

That’s because the corruption runs deep. Their courts are packed with Democrats and they want you to hire the lawyer that works for part of that check every month (the ones that get a percentage of it monthly ) Those are the crooked lawyers that grease their palms and donate to the democrat machine. If you happen to have a Republican Congressmen call them and complain , if you live in a blue area they won’t care cause they know what’s up.


35 posted on 03/16/2017 6:03:08 AM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Russ

I suspect the Republic’s last stand has already occurred. It cannot be made right without an all powerful dictator. Then you have an all powerful dictator.


36 posted on 03/16/2017 6:04:36 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: HomerBohn

It strikes me that the Senate is willing to nibble around the edges at Zero’s overreach, but won’t let Trump take it on full-bore.


37 posted on 03/16/2017 6:13:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: HomerBohn

It may take years to unravel the evil mess that Obama made!

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True, but progress to date is very encouraging. Trump is systematically demolishing Obama’s destructive “legacy”.


38 posted on 03/16/2017 6:18:37 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: HomerBohn

It may take years to unravel the evil mess that Obama made!

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True, but progress to date is very encouraging. Trump is systematically demolishing Obama’s destructive “legacy”.


39 posted on 03/16/2017 6:18:47 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: HomerBohn

Every single time they discard any of the remnants of the failed previous administration I hear those brainwashed schoolchildren singing “Barack Hussein Obama Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm” and I smile a little


40 posted on 03/16/2017 6:20:56 AM PDT by Spruce
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