Post South Carolina Primary and Newt Gingrich won.  I get very concerned about the people that are running for office and the lack of integrity and concern for the public.  I have watched politics much closer as I've gotten older and I have to question if politicians really work for the people or for the big money causes.  The oil companies, anti-labor groups, those with the most cash.  That would not be the environmentalists, those fighting for equality for all, or for those trying to help children and poor or underprivileged, or support for LGBT Americans. Newt is trying to override Rick Santorum and gain all the conservatives.  Mitt can't because he's Mormon.  Yikes, I say.  Rick is awful in his hate for gays, and we know all the candidates will say what they need to do to win the religious right vote.  
  Right now, the rhetoric that Newt is throwing out about welfare queens, obama giving out food stamps, and the poor living off the government, getting rid of gay rights, I know where his heart is.  I have always worked with children and underprivileged and not made a lot of money in the process, but I have passion about what I do.  I was always a single mom who ultra-religious husband left me with 3 children so he could be happy. Our children were 6,4, and 1. Sounds like Gingrich.  But their God forgives them. But I guess my point is that I was not poor because I was a third generation welfare mom. I was poor because I trusted my husband and stayed home with children and was at his mercy financially because of that. 
I also have a college educated son who just lost his job after surviving the 2+ years since the recession. But he is a young man who wants to work and has worked since he was 16.  He's not a slacker accepting food stamps.  So, Gingrich needs to watch his stereotypes.  No one's story is the same.  Perhaps if I were Newt or Mitt and lost my job, or my son lost his job, it wouldn't matter because we were wealthy anyway. But that is not the case for the middle class, the working class. We need help to survive when we cannot get a job with a college education.  Making $8.00 an hour doesn't pay for gas, and a house payment, and food. So when I hear this rhetoric from the republican nominees, I get angry.  They are wrong!!! The LGBT population is a small part of society and will never have the money cumulatively that the Koch brothers will have.
Newt was released as speaker of the house for a reason.
These are some of the reasons I work 2+ jobs, trying to change my money flow from that of someone who has always had to struggle with money to having it easier, but I'll never make it to the status of a Newt financially. If you are where I'm at, here's an idea.  Empower Network.