Some recovery summer, huh? Unemployment is rising, Food Stamps usage rising, Medicaid recipients increasing

Where are the apologies?

By Michael Bates
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Glancing at a newspaper in the Age of Obama can be hazardous to your mental – if not physical – health.

Unemployment is rising. For 18 straight months (not that it has anything to do with The Anointed One’s time in office) food stamp participation has set records. We’re up to 40.8 million recipients. More than 50 million Americans are now on Medicaid, a program intended for the poor. One in six of our fellow citizens are in government anti-poverty programs.

Then there’s that marvelous Obama stimulus. Tax dollars putting people back to work with important, meaningful projects like developing a computerized choreography program, analyzing exotic ants, and studying if a soda tax will improve health. Shovel ready is indeed an apt description.

Some recovery summer, huh? Although newspapers report the depressing statistics, there’s at least one thing missing: an apology for urging their readers to vote for Barack Obama for president in the first place.

Consider how the endorsements for Obama rolled in less than two years ago. According to the Chicago Tribune, Barry’s “economic policy team is peppered with advisers who support free trade. He has been called a ‘University of Chicago Democrat’—a reference to the famed free-market Chicago school of economics, which puts faith in markets.â€