I'm pretty sure that this is the second of two debates ...

... in which Mitt Romney has slagged Barack Obama for cutting welfare.

Specifically, corporate welfare.

In both cases, Obama has pointed out that the US is producing more oil and gasoline now than it was producing when he was elected, and that that growth has occurred in the "private sector."

In both cases, Romney has whined that Obama's administration has cut back on welfare checks to oil companies in the form of taxpayer-subsidized drilling privileges on "public" land.

Very strange.