Why.... It's as if Charlton Heston was quoting the figures on how many people are needlessly killed by guns every year just because the guns are there. Romney, as part of his "Convention Reinvention" plan, is saying now with great (false) gusto: "One in six Americans is now in poverty!" As if this just happened. Oooh, it's Obama's fault! He implies that the economy is so bad that suddenly one out of six is poor. Dead wrong.
Though poverty did increase following the 2008 Republican Near Depression, economic collapse and great loss of jobs, it always does following a recession as figures below show. Before that, POVERTY INCREASED 2003 - 2008 under George W. BUSH!
POVERTY INCREASED .7% from 2007 to 2008, that's (Mr. Romney, pay attention) before Obama was in office. Earlier, went up .2%, from 2003 to 2004. That's .9% under Bush, when we were not in the worst Recession since the Great Depression! Was that Mr. Obama's fault too? 2008 census... Poverty
Romney and Ryan care nothing about the poor, about suffering people, about the middle class. How can we say this with certainty? Because we know they want to completely shred the safety net which they view as a hammock that allows poor lazy people to get a free ride. Goodbye Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security and huge cuts even to FOOD STAMPS. That is what they have in their well-documented plans. Well documented. (See Krugman quote below). Today we read FL Republican legislators refused $4.9m in federal funds for children laird, Florida Blocks Healthy Start.
Lord have mercy before I give those guys a swift kick where it would do the most good. LEAVE THE POOR OUT OF IT, MITT! Just like you always have. Follow me here......
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