The Real Hope

A candidate won the US Presidency in 2008 with an offer of ersatz hope and brought real change, almost entirely for the worse. You can not consider a record number of Americans on Food Stamps an achievement. A growing dependency state is a tragedy and unsustainable to boot. Few dole dwellers are fulfilling their highest expectation when they go begging Uncle Sam. The GOP wants to offer them a hand up so they no longer need the handout. Barack Obama is happy to give a man a fish while Mitt Romney wants to teach that man to fish so that he may eat for a lifetime. There is only so much a nation is able to produce and the productive classes will rise up and shout "no more" if they are made to work ever harder so that other able-bodied may mooch.