"I will say that today, welfare payments are not the big driver of our deficit or our debt. There are work obligations attached to welfare," President Obama said at his Twitter Town Hall.
"The vast majority of folks who are getting welfare want to work, but can't find jobs. And what we should be doing is, in all of our social programs, evaluating what -- upgrading people's skills, giving them the tools they need to get in the workforce, nudging them into the workforce. But letting them know that 'we're there to support you and encourage you as long as you're showing the kind of responsibility for being willing to work that everybody should be expected to show."
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