Octomom, Obama, and Public Assistance

Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Guiterrez (born Natalie Denise Suleman), is popularly known as "Octomom". She is most widely known for giving birth to octuplets in January 2009.

She is a controversial figure, having used in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in all her pregnancies. She had six prior children, was unemployed, and on public assistance when she gave birth to her eight youngest children. Octomom is a high school graduate, has a four-year college degree, and even has taken some graduate level courses.

Suleman gained much attention following the highly unusual birth of eight children. She received monetary contributions, TV deals, and has been in numerous magazine articles as well. Now that some of the initial reaction to her unprecedented situation has worn off, she apparently is spiraling back down to the same conditions which allowed her to get pregnant with eight embryos simultaneously in the first place: dependence on government run public assistance programs.

With a record-high 40 million people on food stamps in Obama's America, and free healthcare being promised in the future, what are the odds of more such Octomom-style debacles taking place?

Changes Obama Hopes You'll Believe In

Barack (He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Middle-Named) Obama has almost no legislative record, so he's inventing one.

In Barack Obama's first general election ad he claimed that passed laws that... "extended healthcare for wounded troops that had been neglected." (Public Law 110-181)
But, in reality... he didn't even show up to vote on the bill.

And, there's this, in another ad, he claims that he's a champion of welfare reform, but at the time....

Obama said this about the welfare reform legislation at this time:

"I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare. Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems."