@H2O MAN,
In what way is it sad that the poor can have a good meal thank to the government help or that the GOP had harm the economic to the point that such help is still needed after they almost drove us into a second great depression four years ago?
At least we are working ourselves out of the hole the GOP had placed us in faster then we did after they cause the 1928 great depression by allowing the financial markets to run wild as they did in the early 2000's also.
Of course we had yet to know if the GOP is going to force the nation over the financial cliff in order to protect the super riches tax breaks.