Examiner Editorial: Food stamp rolls explode after Obama loosens rules

You will recall that during the last election there was a big controversy over whether the Obama administration had acted to “gut” — to use the Romney campaign’s term — the work requirements under welfare reform. The Obama administration denied it, and various self-appointed media fact checkers had his back. The gutting claim was a fiction, they said, relying for their evidence primarily on the administration’s spin. The programs have simply been made more efficient, the White House argued.

If by “more efficient” the Obama team meant getting unprecedented numbers of people on the rolls and keeping them there longer by relaxing the old rules, then, yes, the administration’s reforms have been a roaring success.