Romney, not Obama, shows concern for nation's poor

Byron York:  "There's an odd imbalance that few have noticed in this presidential campaign. In the midst of a continuing economic downturn, one candidate talks regularly about poverty, and the other doesn't. The one who does is the Republican, Mitt Romney."

Michelle Obama: "We Are In The Midst Of A Huge Recovery."

Reality:  Not so much.

If This Is Forward . . .

Hat tip to Vodkapundit.

689 Reasons to Defeat Barack Obama

That's it?

It's an Obama World, We Just Pay for It

Via Gateway Pundit:  Obama is now paying illegal aliens to come here.

The Food Stamp President

John Hinderaker:

Under Barack Obama, food stamps have exploded to become one of the largest federal spending programs. This is partly because of the lousy Obama economy, of course, but it goes much farther than that: food stamp spending has skyrocketed because the Democrats want dependency on welfare programs to be the rule, not the exception. Barack Obama is indeed the nation’s first food stamp president.

 

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In a Bold Move

Obama adopts a position on gay marriage that Dick Cheney articulated twelve years ago.  Gay marriage, birth control, dogs . . . .  It seems Obama is willing to talk about anything as long as it's not the economy.  I wonder why?

The Secret Service Scandal

Mark Steyn gets a glimpse of the hotel accommodations the secret service agents enjoyed while they “scouted security for the President’s visit” and observes the real scandal:

We have a dependency culture from top to toe. Forty-five million Americans are on food stamps. The “public servants” manning the government that hands out the food stamps are themselves on Vegas hot-tub stamps, beach-resort stamps, Colombian hooker stamps, third-of-a-century retirement stamps . . .

A few more years of this, and it won’t be necessary to go to Cartagena: It’ll be Latin America at home, too.

The Obama Economy

Food stamp spending has more than doubled since 2008.