If the Economy is Getting Better...

I think I'm starting to figure out the plan. If one day, you promise to work hard to help the "very poor", and the next day you realize that further padding the social safety net is an expensive job, why not just ... disappear the problem all together?

You know -- Happy Days are Here Again... gonna sing a song of cheer again... But still, inquiring minds want to know:

If the economy is getting better, then why did new home sales in the United States hit a brand new all-time record low during 2011?

If the economy is getting better, then why are there 6 million less jobs in America today than there were before the recession started?

If the economy is getting better, then why is the average duration of unemployment in this country close to an all-time record high?

If the economy is getting better, then why has the number of homeless female veterans more than doubled?

If the economy is getting better, then why has the number of Americans on food stamps increased by 3 million since this time last year and by more than 14 million since Barack Obama entered the White House?

If the economy is getting better, then why has the number of children living in poverty in America risen for four years in a row?

If the economy is getting better, then why is the percentage of Americans living in “extreme poverty” at an all-time high?

Something just isn't adding up here... Must be that "new math" they're teaching in the schools nowadays, eh?