Liberal Forum

I wonder why Clem is running from the question about his secret Moderator powers? Wow, there's a ground shaking issue. The following is also Bush's fault, who loosened the rules. But he's gone, and a Lying Leftist is in the White House. And as usual, the liberal MSM sided with the lying leftist. Food stamp rolls explode after Obama loosens rules You will recall that during the last election there was a big controversy over whether the Obama administration had acted to "gut" -- to use the Romney campaign's term -- the work requirements under welfare reform. The Obama administration denied it, and various self-appointed media fact checkers had his back. The gutting claim was a fiction, they said, relying for their evidence primarily on the administration's spin. The programs have simply been made more efficient, the White House argued. If by "more efficient" the Obama team meant getting unprecedented numbers of people on the rolls and keeping them there longer by relaxing the old rules, then, yes, the administration's reforms have been a roaring success. A lengthy story in Thursday's Wall Street Journal notes that the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps, now has 47.8 million people on the rolls, up from just 28.2 million in 2008. http://washingtonexa...article/2525686