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The Democrats hit the Republicans hard on Ryan’s budget cuts to the poor and rightfully so.

Ryan’s focus is misplaced. Fix the economy, and then you don’t have to make arbitrary cuts to medicaid.

Unfortunately, I don’t thing Romney/Ryan have much more of a clue on the economy than does Obama.

Romney so far has said “Energy independence” and “make trade work for us”. Energy independence is a good goal but he has given us few specifics.

More importantly, “make trade work for us”, is THE key to fixing this economy. Unfortunately, Romney said nothing about what this means. And if you look at Romney’s website he talks about less government regulation and MORE trade. He doesn’t talk at all about fair trade or protecting American jobs or market.

Our founding fathers had nice import tariffs to help American industry. Those tariffs were thought wise until 30 years ago. Now we have almost none and our jobs have fled overseas to cheaper labor.

Neither candidate gets it.

>>The Democrats hit the Republicans hard on Ryan’s budget cuts to the poor and rightfully so.<<

Really?

So no matter how many entitlements the government gives and no matter how much “the poor” make, we can never cut them?

Did you know that EVERY woman over the age of 35, regardless of income can get WIC (one of the programs reduced in the Ryan budget)? When my husband made 60,000 a year, I could get WIC with my younger daughter because I was 39.

So let’s get realistic about “cuts to the poor”. Maybe they are perfectly reasonable.

My niece, who works at McDonalds has a better lifestyle than I do. She has a car that gets repairs by the government every time she needs it, she has cable (I don’t) she has an Obamaphone, her daughter gets title 20 daycare after school, free breakfasts, free lunches AND my niece has all her school paid for while I’m fighting to find college money for 5 years from now. She also gets 400.00 a month in “cash assistance” and has a SNAP card.

So who’s poor?