Nearly 50 million Americans now on food stamps

[Davros]

I don't think people get it....

Food stamps are not a socialist welfare scheme, they are a corporate welfare scheme...

Look Walmart don't have to pay a living wage when the government will pick up the pieces and supplement their wages...

So Walmart, McD,.... all lobby against minimum wages... They find enough dumbasses who can't figure out if you don't pay a living wage then the government is going to assist them.

So here is your choice, put in a higher minimum wage or prepare to pay for more food stamps?

Why do liberals always leave out the higher product costs that go along with the higher min wage?

Regardless food stamps are required because corporations do not pay a living wage.

Food stamps are required because people are trying to raise a family on a job that doesnt pay well because there's no skill involved.

Yeah. And what's your solution to that?

Get a better job. And of course repeatedly kick myself in the ass for being a complete moron for putting myself in the position i'm in.

Facepalm. Not everyone can go get a better job. Some people don't have a lot of the talents and most importantly ability to sell themselves that employers are looking for. Everybody makes mistakes growing up, but some people get a lot more lucky than others in recovering from those mistakes.

Also, improving oneself is a lengthy process. In the meantime, you have to eat.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Why do liberals always leave out the higher product costs that go along with the higher min wage?

Regardless food stamps are required because corporations do not pay a living wage.

Food stamps are required because people are trying to raise a family on a job that doesnt pay well because there's no skill involved.

Yeah. And what's your solution to that?

Get a better job. And of course repeatedly kick myself in the ass for being a complete moron for putting myself in the position i'm in.

Facepalm. Not everyone can go get a better job. Some people don't have a lot of the talents and most importantly ability to sell themselves that employers are looking for. Everybody makes mistakes growing up, but some people get a lot more lucky than others in recovering from those mistakes.

Also, improving oneself is a lengthy process. In the meantime, you have to eat.

A better job doesnt have to entail being smarter,just a will to work harder.
And I am pretty sure those that got out of poverty had something else going for them besides luck...it's called effort.

 

[bedowin62]

Why do liberals always leave out the higher product costs that go along with the higher min wage?

Regardless food stamps are required because corporations do not pay a living wage.

Food stamps are required because people are trying to raise a family on a job that doesnt pay well because there's no skill involved.

Yeah. And what's your solution to that?

Get a better job. And of course repeatedly kick myself in the ass for being a complete moron for putting myself in the position i'm in.

Facepalm. Not everyone can go get a better job. Some people don't have a lot of the talents and most importantly ability to sell themselves that employers are looking for. Everybody makes mistakes growing up, but some people get a lot more lucky than others in recovering from those mistakes.

Also, improving oneself is a lengthy process. In the meantime, you have to eat.

YAWN; more sanctimony

Care to expound why that neediness increased by several million under obama? We have already established it isnt because of the previous President's economy

 

[paulitician]

Massive Debt, Record Poverty, Awful IRS/NSA Abuses, Complete Destruction Of Our Immigration System...

Barack Hussein Obama has brought us closer to Third World Misery than any other President in history. There has been change, but now there is no hope. His entire reign has been Treasonous.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

What's amazing is that even as the right fights against equality and raising raising the minimum wage, they actually have the gall to blame Obama.

What percentage of the American population gets minimum wage?
Increased labor costs typically result in higher product costs resulting in it being a wash. A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME

You want higher pay? Stop flipping burgers for a living. It's not rocket science

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

McDonald's is not a smart career choice.

 

[Meathead]

Massive Debt, Record Poverty, Awful IRS/NSA Abuses, Complete Destruction Of Our Immigration System...

Barack Hussein Obama has brought us closer to Third World Misery than any other President in history. There has been change, but now there is no hope. His entire reign has been Treasonous.

Yes, Obama is consequential in this sense. History will indeed remember his administration as the one that heralded the collapse of one of the greatest countries in history. Alas, it may too late.

 

[paulitician]

Poverty is at record levels. Ironically, it's only the Wall Street fatcats Communists/Progressives despise, who've prospered on Obama's watch. He's actually brought us closer to Third World Misery than any other President in history.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I don't think people get it....

Food stamps are not a socialist welfare scheme, they are a corporate welfare scheme...

Look Walmart don't have to pay a living wage when the government will pick up the pieces and supplement their wages...

So Walmart, McD,.... all lobby against minimum wages... They find enough dumbasses who can't figure out if you don't pay a living wage then the government is going to assist them.

So here is your choice, put in a higher minimum wage or prepare to pay for more food stamps?

Why do liberals always leave out the higher product costs that go along with the higher min wage?

By definition libs aren't all that bright....

 

[Spinster]

That's how it is when you raise up a couple generations of trashy fat, soda guzzling imbeciles that know nothing more than having their faces glued to a screen shooting up aliens in a fantasy world and lacking the social skills and motivation to peel their obese behinds from their throne and GET A JOB instead of making every excuse known to man.

 

[Carla_Danger]

For much of the presidency of Barack Obama, a record number of Americans have subsisted in part or in whole on taxpayer-subsidized programs.

For much of his presidency, Obama has claimed that is because he "inherited" the worst economy in modern history and that government programs were necessary in order to keep families from starving.

In 2009, Obama and fellow Democrats declared the Great Recession officially over. In spite of this, the number of Americans who have become dependent on various food assistance programs is the highest it has ever been in relation to the total population.

Ed Feulner wrote in The Daily Caller that in 2008, fewer than 30 million Americans utilized the so-called "food stamp" program, which is administered by the Department of Agriculture. Today, that figure is roughly 46.5 million.

Nearly 50 million Americans now on food stamps

Obamerica folks. Brought to you by the community organizing kenyan who hated this country his entire contrived affirmative action life.

Here you go.....

Ho Hum


Food Stamps
The number of people receiving food stamps dropped by more than 600,000 since our last report. But as of March, the most recent month on record, more than 45.6 million Americans were still receiving the food aid, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

That’s only 4.5 percentage points lower than the record level set in December 2012, and nearly 43 percent higher than it was when Obama took office in 2009.

Nevertheless, Obama no longer qualifies for the title of “Food Stamp President” that Republican Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, tried to hang on him during the 2012 presidential campaign. As we noted at the time, 14.7 million people were added to the food-stamp rolls during George W. Bush’s time in office. By comparison, the net gain under Obama now stands at 13.7 million — and it’s declining as the economy improves.

Obama’s Numbers (July 2015 Update)

 

[Fishlore]

More people are eligible for SNAP because more people are poor. The decline in median family wage over the past fifteen years has a number of causes, all of which are the result of Republican policies.

 

[Obiwan]

More people are eligible for SNAP because more people are poor. The decline in median family wage over the past fifteen years has a number of causes, all of which are the result of Republican policies.

So Obozo didn't do anything but watch for over 6 1/2 years???
Middle Class Lost In Obama's 'Middle Class Economics'

 

[Meathead]

More people are eligible for SNAP because more people are poor. The decline in median family wage over the past fifteen years has a number of causes, all of which are the result of Republican policies.

It's odd, I know, but if people had decent jobs people would not need government assistance. As government assistance increases, so has Obama failed. This kind of failure cannot continue forever. Sooner or later the result is Greece today.

 

[danielpalos]

I agree that we should end the capital gains distinction instead of encouraging capitalists to cost shift social costs to the public sector.

 

[Stephanie]

Massive Debt, Record Poverty, Awful IRS/NSA Abuses, Complete Destruction Of Our Immigration System...

Barack Hussein Obama has brought us closer to Third World Misery than any other President in history. There has been change, but now there is no hope. His entire reign has been Treasonous.

that was their plan. Bring us down to our knees and swoop in for the take over. Why they are trying so hard to stir up a race war. If there's people struggling it causes enough misery they can gin up some riots and lootings like they did in Ferguson, Baltimore (those were dry runs) all around, Obama can use his powers before he leaves office

 

[Meathead]

I agree that we should end the capital gains distinction instead of encouraging capitalists to cost shift social costs to the public sector.

What, keeping poor people fat?

 

[danielpalos]

Why not end the "work tax" to encourage the Iron Age work ethic from labor the right adores soo much, in modern times.

 

[bedowin62]

More people are eligible for SNAP because more people are poor. The decline in median family wage over the past fifteen years has a number of causes, all of which are the result of Republican policies.

seriously it is hilarious watching left-wing losers indulge in their favorite pastime; talking out of both sides of their mouths.

left-wing losers want to brag that the absurd obama unemployment rate is spot-on and anybody who criticizes it is just guilty of jealousy and sour grapes; but out of the other corner of their mouths insist that "republican policies" are to blame for people being poor. you want to claim all the good and blame all the bad on others. libs are child-like crybabies

 

[Care4all]

Uhm, no.

45.5 does not round to 50. 45.5 rounds to 46. 46 is not 50 and 46 is also not "almost 50".

It's simple math, almost simple enough for a Rightie to grasp.

Title is STILL "Nearly 50"

when it is 45 million receiving them, it is not nearly 50 million, it's simply 45 million!!!!

It's nearly 50MM and will probably be way more than that when Obama finally leaves office

too bad for your prediction since it is trending downward....!!!

it is nothing short of hysterical that idiot leftists want to brag about something UP by THIRTEEN MILLION from when Bush was in office is finally "trendin downward" at the end of obama's SEVENTH YEAR.

I'm a :

the glass is half filled, type of person.

You seem to be :

the glass is half empty, type of person.