An average 46,609,072 people were on the program every month in 2012.

[Stephanie]

Isn't ObamaNation just grand
links in article at site

SNIP:
posted at 9:21 pm on March 11, 2013 by Erika Johnsen

After last week’s big February-unemployment reveal, we were treated to a whole heap of ostensible reasons about why the ever-so-slightly eased official unemployment rate of 7.7 percent means the economy is really getting on the right track, and somehow indicates real material improvement in the labor market. Delving into the reports’ numbers a little more closely, however, unearthed a hodgepodge of continued bad news: Even more people dropping out of the labor force meant a stagnant unemployment-population ratio and that the labor force participation rate only fell even further.

In yet another indication that the economy is meandering in the desert of a endlessly weak ‘recovery,’ the number of Americans enrolled in the federal food-stamp program has only continued to increase — and the program’s numbers in December hit an all-time record. Via the Weekly Standard:

On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was the biggest it’s ever been, with an average of 46,609,072 people on the program every month of last year. 47,791,996 people were on the program in the month of December 2012. …

[Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff] Sessions also pointed out that cities like Baltimore, which he said have have been “governed by liberal policies for decades,” see particularly high numbers of participation in the program.

“Despite this fountain of federal funds, 1 in 3 children still live in poverty in our nation’s capital. Two in three children live in single parent homes. In nearby Baltimore–another city governed by liberal policies for decades–1 in 3 residents are on food stamps and in 1 in 3 youth live in poverty. Americans are committed to helping our sisters and brothers who are struggling, but we are seeing the damaging human consequences of our broken welfare state,” said Sessions.

all of it here
Oh, good: Americans enrolled in the federal food-stamp program hits a new record « Hot Air

 

[uscitizen]

Well yes, the population of the USA hits a new record every day too.

 

[editec]

And every cent of the money spent goes where?

Into the tils of the supermarkets which support the manufacturers, farmers and people who get the food to us.

Now compare those pennies spent feedlng our neighbors to the trillion$ GIVEN the Banksters.

Money well spend, folks, money damned well spent.

Perspective...get some.

 

[Freemason9]

Poverty is NOT caused by food stamps. It is caused by too few jobs, wages that are too low, concentrated wealth in the control of a very few, and scant opportunity.

If you really want to reduce food stamp usage, fix those things.

 

[PratchettFan]

I am continued to be amazed at the incredible power wielded by our President. If the grass fails to grow in my front yard, Obama did it! Even in a program which operates under law passed by the Congress and applied by the states is the result of the President. He has got to be the most powerful man who has ever lived.

 

[Mad Scientist]

What is wrong with Government help people?

 

[Rozman]

Nancy Pelosi is gonna love reading this tonight when she logs in...

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Yep things are getting better in this obamnation

Obama Fun Fact: More Americans on Food Stamps Than Entire Population of Spain | The Gateway Pundit

 

[AmyNation]

Question, what exactly are you upset about? That the economy is so bad that so many need help? That the program is too big and too broad and needs trimmed? That so many are dependant on government help?

 

[LoneLaugher]

You really don't know what he's upset about?

 

[AmyNation]

Obama?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Question, what exactly are you upset about? That the economy is so bad that so many need help? That the program is too big and too broad and needs trimmed? That so many are dependant on government help?

Who's upset I hope obama's policy hit hard at the ones who voted for him.

 

[kyzr]

Do they get new Droid Obamaphones with their food stamps??
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr201FqTP4w]"Obama Phone" Remix (parody song) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Do they get new Droid Obamaphones with their food stamps??
"Obama Phone" Remix (parody song) - YouTube

With all the bells and whistles

 

[aaronleland]

Do they get new Droid Obamaphones with their food stamps??
"Obama Phone" Remix (parody song) - YouTube

To be accurate, that is Reaganphone.

 

[NYcarbineer]

We should all be thankful we live in a land of plenty, and that we are willing to use the process of our democratic government to share that plenty with those less fortunate.

 

[auditor0007]

Yep things are getting better in this obamnation

Obama Fun Fact: More Americans on Food Stamps Than Entire Population of Spain | The Gateway Pundit

Let's take a look at the numbers.

Notice how 30% of those people collecting food stamps actually work, and how 32% are disabled or elderly? 22% are non-workers who have kids, granted probably too many but those are the facts. Here is another fact;

Most SNAP participants were children or elderly. Nearly half (47 percent) were under age 18 and another 8 percent were age 60 or older. Working-age women represented 28 percent of the caseload, while working-age men represented 17 percent. [USDA.gov, September 2011, emphasis original]

Hannity Omits The "Food Stamp" Facts: Most Recipients Have Jobs, Or Are Seniors Or Children | Research | Media Matters for America

So what do you think? Should we really force those kids under 18 to go out and get a job so they can afford to feed themselves?

Give an honest answer, since you love this topic so much and since you have such a problem with poor people receiving aid.

 

[tyroneweaver]

We should all be thankful we live in a land of plenty, and that we are willing to use the process of our democratic government to share that plenty with those less fortunate.

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with God's blessing. But the this country has lost it's ability to even be embarrassed by the way it lives
Heaven help us.

 

[auditor0007]

Do they get new Droid Obamaphones with their food stamps??
"Obama Phone" Remix (parody song) - YouTube

Yea that program that was started by Reagan, expanded by Clinton and then Bush Jr, and that has had nothing to do with Obama at all. You fuckers are so stupid it's hilarious.

 

[SteadyMercury]

Poverty is NOT caused by food stamps. It is caused by too few jobs, wages that are too low, concentrated wealth in the control of a very few, and scant opportunity.

and bad luck, and poor decisions