Imagine if a Republican...

Was President. This would be front page news over every news paper through out the country. The TV anchors would start their programs off with "are the Republican policies causes homelessness in America?" But because Obama "cares" and "hopes" and "change" the media loves him.

Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits—a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," in one official's eyes.

"We are seeing many families that never before sought government help," said Greg Blass, commissioner of Social Services in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island.

"We see a spiral in food stamps, heating assistance applications; Medicaid is skyrocketing," Blass added. "It is truly reaching a stage of being alarming."

The federal government is again counting the nation's homeless and, by many accounts, the suburban numbers continue to rise, especially for families, women, children, Latinos and men seeking help for the first time. Some have to be turned away.

It's pretty sad that homelessness is only a problem when a Republican is in the White House.

Maybe when things get so bad that the media can't ignore it anymore we can get the old Jimmy Carter misery index back.