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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.
Census figures for 2009 — the recession-ravaged first year of the Democrat's presidency — are to be released in the coming week, and demographers expect grim findings.
It's unfortunate timing for Obama and his party just seven weeks before important elections when control of Congress is at stake. The anticipated poverty rate increase — from 13.2 percent to about 15 percent — would be another blow to Democrats struggling to persuade voters to keep them in power.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100911/...rty_in_america |
Are you telling us that big government is bad for the poor? But, I though Obama was a friend of the poor? Or, was he only friends with the union bosses? I forget.
Obama sure had alot of Wall Street fat cat donors to his campaign. Hmmm, maybe those high taxes and sluggish markets are encouraging the rich to hire fewer poor people.
Is it possible that all those social programs are actually bad for the poor?
Is it possible that Obama cares more about Hollywood and the political class than the poor? But I thought he was a "community organizer?" Maybe that means he was a "Marxist."
