Nearly 50 million Americans now on food stamps

[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.

Obviously, you are not a thinking type person, nor do you have an inquisitive mind, nor are you capable of doing your own analysis, and coming to your own conclusions....you talk about others being "paid shills" and from the moment you arrived here, this very thing of being a paid, non thinking shill, is what I figured you were, the way you just regurgitate what you are told to say, by your right wing gods....your Mamons.

There were 17 million food stamp recipients when President Bush took office, and during one of the biggest economic booms that our country has had, with unemployment averaging only around 5%, food stamp recipients went to 25 million people by 2005 and then to nearly 30 million by the time he left office...it rose by 74.6% under the Bush Presidency.

Do the numbers....from 30 million to a peak of 47 million is a 57% increase in annual food stamp recipients, during the biggest and most grave, economic downfall since the Great Depression!

So, as Historians analyze this, by the factual numbers, and surrounding economic times, President Obama will not be graded badly on his numbers with food stamps, however President Bush could be, for his GREATER percentage increase in SNAP recipients during a relatively strong economy, a housing boom, and relatively low unemployment, during most of his terms....until Humpty Dumpty came falling down.

 

[Carla_Danger]

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.

Obviously, you are not a thinking type person, nor do you have an inquisitive mind, nor are you capable of doing your own analysis, and coming to your own conclusions....you talk about others being "paid shills" and from the moment you arrived here, this very thing of being a paid, non thinking shill, is what I figured you were, the way you just regurgitate what you are told to say, by your right wing gods....your Mamons.

There were 17 million food stamp recipients when President Bush took office, and during one of the biggest economic booms that our country has had, with unemployment averaging only around 5%, food stamp recipients went to 25 million people by 2005 and then to nearly 30 million by the time he left office...it rose by 74.6% under the bush Presidency.

Do the numbers....from 30 million to a peak of 47 million is a 57% increase in annual food stamp recipients, during the biggest and most grave, economic downfall since the Great Depression!

So, as Historians analyze this, by the factual numbers, and surrounding economic times, President Obama will not be graded badly on his numbers with food stamps, however President Bush could be, for his GREATER percentage increase in SNAP recipients during a relatively strong economy, a housing boom, and relatively low unemployment, during most of his terms....until Humpty Dumpty came falling down.

 

[Dad2three]

who is more likely to be on welfare and/or food stamps in the reddest of red states left-wing idiot?


hmmmm?????

Yeah the right wing state governments do nothing to increase opportunity for their minority citizens, so after an economic downturn, the federal government has to step in to keep the poor afloat. It's pretty simple.

What does the right wing NOT DO for minority citizens?

Wow.

Tyler Perry – $400 Million
Beyonce – $450 Million
Magic Johnson – $500 Million
Mariah Carey – $520 Million
Jay-Z – $520 Million
Robert L. Johnson – $550 Million
A businessman, media magnate, investor, executive and philanthropist. He is the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), which he sold to Viacom in 2001 for $3 billion; becoming the first African American billionaire. He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in different business sectors.

Tiger Woods – $600 Million
Diddy – $700 Million
Dr. Dre – $780 Million (yeeeeah fight the power!!!)
Michael Jordan – $1 Billion
Oprah Winfrey – $3 Billion
Top 12 Richest African Americans 2015 - Forbes List


Boy, the free market system sure has been bad to poor minorities in this country.

Lets see. Republicans freed them. Republicans desegregated schools. Republicans voted for the civil rights act while democrats like Al Gore Sr voted against it.

Liberals, sure are losers. Liars, and fucking losers. Pushing their victimology narrative all the way.

Let me know if you want me to list the number of black doctors and other black businessmen who are great successes due to the OPPORTUNITIES given them. Like Dr Ben Carson and Herman Cain.

Liberals are fucking losers.

Don't understand anecdotes and percentages or even history and logic huh?

This guy who TRIPLED US debt and added more than $3 trillion in the next 30 years in "debt" by "saving SS"?

 

[Dad2three]

Jeopardy

I'll take Liberal Philosophy for $18,000,000,000,000, Alex

A. More and Bigger Government

Q. What is the Liberal response to every single problem, real or imagined

 

[ninja007]

and 40-45 million of those will vote dem. Big surprise!

 

[ninja007]

who is more likely to be on welfare and/or food stamps in the reddest of red states left-wing idiot?


hmmmm?????

Yeah the right wing state governments do nothing to increase opportunity for their minority citizens, so after an economic downturn, the federal government has to step in to keep the poor afloat. It's pretty simple.

What does the right wing NOT DO for minority citizens?

Wow.

Tyler Perry – $400 Million
Beyonce – $450 Million
Magic Johnson – $500 Million
Mariah Carey – $520 Million
Jay-Z – $520 Million
Robert L. Johnson – $550 Million
A businessman, media magnate, investor, executive and philanthropist. He is the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), which he sold to Viacom in 2001 for $3 billion; becoming the first African American billionaire. He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in different business sectors.

Tiger Woods – $600 Million
Diddy – $700 Million
Dr. Dre – $780 Million (yeeeeah fight the power!!!)
Michael Jordan – $1 Billion
Oprah Winfrey – $3 Billion
Top 12 Richest African Americans 2015 - Forbes List


Boy, the free market system sure has been bad to poor minorities in this country.

Lets see. Republicans freed them. Republicans desegregated schools. Republicans voted for the civil rights act while democrats like Al Gore Sr voted against it.

Liberals, sure are losers. Liars, and fucking losers. Pushing their victimology narrative all the way.

Let me know if you want me to list the number of black doctors and other black businessmen who are great successes due to the OPPORTUNITIES given them. Like Dr Ben Carson and Herman Cain.

Liberals are fucking losers.

Don't understand anecdotes and percentages or even history and logic huh?

This guy who TRIPLED US debt and added more than $3 trillion in the next 30 years in "debt" by "saving SS"?

repeating this LIE enough does not make it true dipshit. Get educated by the great one.

 

[Dad2three]

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?

Yes, CAN'T POSSIBLY HAVE LESS PROFITS RIGHT?

 

[ninja007]

Reagan's Budget was called dead on arrival by Tip Oneil. Reagan never got a budget through. He had to go over O'Neil's head to get a few blue dog democrats to get anything passed. The DNC kept adding to his budget. Congress (lib) kept increasing Reagan's budgets.

 

[Dad2three]

Yeah the right wing state governments do nothing to increase opportunity for their minority citizens, so after an economic downturn, the federal government has to step in to keep the poor afloat. It's pretty simple.

What does the right wing NOT DO for minority citizens?

Wow.

Tyler Perry – $400 Million
Beyonce – $450 Million
Magic Johnson – $500 Million
Mariah Carey – $520 Million
Jay-Z – $520 Million
Robert L. Johnson – $550 Million
A businessman, media magnate, investor, executive and philanthropist. He is the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), which he sold to Viacom in 2001 for $3 billion; becoming the first African American billionaire. He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in different business sectors.

Tiger Woods – $600 Million
Diddy – $700 Million
Dr. Dre – $780 Million (yeeeeah fight the power!!!)
Michael Jordan – $1 Billion
Oprah Winfrey – $3 Billion
Top 12 Richest African Americans 2015 - Forbes List


Boy, the free market system sure has been bad to poor minorities in this country.

Lets see. Republicans freed them. Republicans desegregated schools. Republicans voted for the civil rights act while democrats like Al Gore Sr voted against it.

Liberals, sure are losers. Liars, and fucking losers. Pushing their victimology narrative all the way.

Let me know if you want me to list the number of black doctors and other black businessmen who are great successes due to the OPPORTUNITIES given them. Like Dr Ben Carson and Herman Cain.

Liberals are fucking losers.

Don't understand anecdotes and percentages or even history and logic huh?

This guy who TRIPLED US debt and added more than $3 trillion in the next 30 years in "debt" by "saving SS"?

repeating this LIE enough does not make it true dipshit. Get educated by the great one.

RONNIE'S "ROSY SCENARIO BUDGETS? LOL


Reagan's proposals were based on such optimistic forecasts of the economy that they bore little resemblance to reality.

To understand how the ruse works, a brief review of the budget process is helpful. A budget passed by Congress is not written in stone; there are actually many flexible items in it. One example is unemployment. The budget says, "Pay each unemployed person XXXX amount in unemployment compensation." If the unemployment rate rises higher next year than anticipated, the budget automatically pays these extra individuals without requiring Congressional action.

Another example of a flexible budget item is interest on the debt. If interest rates soar or receipts drop more than expected, then interests costs are going to be greater. These are paid without Congressional action (unless the debt limit is reached).

In the president's budget proposals, he must estimate next year's unemployment rate, interest rates, and several other economic indicators. We have already seen that in Reagan's first budget, David Stockman came up with a super-optimistic forecast that predicted 5 percent economic growth. (The higher the growth, the less government has to spend on unemployment, welfare, stimulus packages, etc.) Today, Stockman derisively refers to his first budget as the "Rosy Scenario." Although Reagan's remaining budgets were not quite as far-fetched as the Rosy Scenario, they were indeed much too optimistic. In fact, the only reason why spending surpassed the requests in only 7 instead of all 8 years was because one year -- 1984 -- actually saw a phenomenal spike of 6 percent growth.



...As reported on the previous page, the House Appropriations Committee conducted a study that compared Reagan's concrete proposals to what Congress actually passed, not what was spent afterwards. And it found that Reagan asked for $29.4 billion more than Congress passed.

Reagan's Budget Proposals


LEVIN HUH? lol

 

[Dad2three]

Reagan's Budget was called dead on arrival by Tip Oneil. Reagan never got a budget through. He had to go over O'Neil's head to get a few blue dog democrats to get anything passed. The DNC kept adding to his budget. Congress (lib) kept increasing Reagan's budgets.

LIAR, IN THE HOUSE NOTHING GETS BY WITHOUT THE MAJORITY SUPPORT DUMBASS!


As reported on the previous page, the House Appropriations Committee conducted a study that compared Reagan's concrete proposals to what Congress actually passed, not what was spent afterwards. And it found that Reagan asked for $29.4 billion more than Congress passed.

Reagan's Budget Proposals


The historical myth that Reagan raised $1 of taxes in exchange for $3 of spending cuts

In fact, historical budget data show that Congress did reduce spending. From 1982 to 1983, nondefense discretionary spending fell from 4.3 percent to 4.2 percent of the overall economy (gross domestic product) — and then kept falling until it reached 3.4 percent of GDP in 1989. Defense spending kept going up until 1986.

The historical myth that Reagan raised $1 of taxes in exchange for $3 of spending cuts

GOP SENATE FOR 6 YEARS REMEMBER DUMMY? lol

 

[auditor0007]

Obamerica folks.

This is one scenario, and it does happen. An easy answer to this would be to qualify these people as living together or the same as being married for the purpose of determining government benefits. There are ways to determine who those are that are living in this situation and abusing the system. The problem is that cons like you just complain about this shit and then call for the end of all welfare benefits because some of the people are abusing the system.

 

[Stephanie]

Obamerica folks.

This is one scenario, and it does happen. An easy answer to this would be to qualify these people as living together or the same as being married for the purpose of determining government benefits. There are ways to determine who those are that are living in this situation and abusing the system. The problem is that cons like you just complain about this shit and then call for the end of all welfare benefits because some of the people are abusing the system.

all you had to do was give that suggestion without all the hate on the end of it. but you couldn't help yourself I guess. Maybe a few cons as you call people calls for ending it, but the rest of them is talking about fixing it. and it's been around since my 60's years and they haven't FIXED it yet. If anything it's worse than ever. there used to a two child limit back in the days, now it's anything goes on having children and collecting

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Reagan's Budget was called dead on arrival by Tip Oneil. Reagan never got a budget through. He had to go over O'Neil's head to get a few blue dog democrats to get anything passed. The DNC kept adding to his budget. Congress (lib) kept increasing Reagan's budgets.

LIAR, IN THE HOUSE NOTHING GETS BY WITHOUT THE MAJORITY SUPPORT DUMBASS!


As reported on the previous page, the House Appropriations Committee conducted a study that compared Reagan's concrete proposals to what Congress actually passed, not what was spent afterwards. And it found that Reagan asked for $29.4 billion more than Congress passed.

Reagan's Budget Proposals


The historical myth that Reagan raised $1 of taxes in exchange for $3 of spending cuts

In fact, historical budget data show that Congress did reduce spending. From 1982 to 1983, nondefense discretionary spending fell from 4.3 percent to 4.2 percent of the overall economy (gross domestic product) — and then kept falling until it reached 3.4 percent of GDP in 1989. Defense spending kept going up until 1986.

The historical myth that Reagan raised $1 of taxes in exchange for $3 of spending cuts

GOP SENATE FOR 6 YEARS REMEMBER DUMMY? lol

Right and control of the Senate means you no longer have to go to the House for anything, right Dummy?

Watch and Learn

 

[Stephanie]

Here you demoRats go. you think it's all the CONS making up stuff. you don't care about any of it. we've been pointing this out for YEARS and you've ignored it. Straight from the HORSES MOUTH

SNIP;
Living large on the public dime
CAIRO – Hundreds of people here rely on public housing for shelter, with the average income among Alexander County Housing Authority residents just $8,655 a year, the majority of them raising children and nearly half as single mothers. More than half of the county’s children live in poverty, and nearly a third are considered food insecure – meaning they don’t always know from where their next meal is coming.

But some of those who were charged with overseeing the shelter upon which many of them rely, lived large, records show, traveling extensively to conferences in destination cities, drinking on the authority’s dime, shelling out hundreds of dollars for steak, salmon, shrimp cocktails, sorbet and other multi-course meals, sometimes paying nearly $100 per person at fine-dining establishments.

Meanwhile, the public housing developments that provide shelter in the state’s poorest county have deteriorated into abysmal conditions, besieged by infestation and violent crime. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, following a review of its finances, listed the housing authority’s status as “troubled.”

As an example, receipts from the numerous trips include a $100 bill on Dec. 14, 2012, at La Salsa Cantina in Las Vegas, that is almost entirely alcohol purchases. Drinks bought using the authority’s credit cards, include a frozen margarita ($8.95); a frozen strawberry margarita ($9.50); and two cocktails called JamaicaMe Crazy ($19.90), which is a mixed drink that one website describes as tasting like strawberry-banana Starbursts, only better.

Click here to view a sampling of receipts showing extensive travel, fine dining and purchase of holiday gifts for employees and board members.

This and other drink and dinner tabs, as well as lodging and airfare for some trips, appear, based on an extensive review of records, to be paid for using the authority’s line of credit even as participants also received an “expense” voucher cut before their trips.

These vouchers are based on accounting that includes -- as part of the calculation -- reimbursement for mileage to far-off destinations, as if a personal vehicle was taken, even though participants flew in most cases. The vouchers also appear duplicative in nature – as in, it seems as though the authority provided “reimbursements” for at least some expenses also pre-paid or funded on location using the authority’s line of credit, such as for transportation, lodging and some meals.

December 2012 Las Vegas example

ALL OF THE DISGUSTING here
Living large on the public dime : News

 

[Dad2three]

Here you demoRats go. you think it's all the CONS making up stuff. you don't care about any of it. we've been pointing this out for YEARS and you've ignored it. Straight from the HORSES MOUTH

SNIP;
Living large on the public dime
CAIRO – Hundreds of people here rely on public housing for shelter, with the average income among Alexander County Housing Authority residents just $8,655 a year, the majority of them raising children and nearly half as single mothers. More than half of the county’s children live in poverty, and nearly a third are considered food insecure – meaning they don’t always know from where their next meal is coming.

But some of those who were charged with overseeing the shelter upon which many of them rely, lived large, records show, traveling extensively to conferences in destination cities, drinking on the authority’s dime, shelling out hundreds of dollars for steak, salmon, shrimp cocktails, sorbet and other multi-course meals, sometimes paying nearly $100 per person at fine-dining establishments.

Meanwhile, the public housing developments that provide shelter in the state’s poorest county have deteriorated into abysmal conditions, besieged by infestation and violent crime. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, following a review of its finances, listed the housing authority’s status as “troubled.”

As an example, receipts from the numerous trips include a $100 bill on Dec. 14, 2012, at La Salsa Cantina in Las Vegas, that is almost entirely alcohol purchases. Drinks bought using the authority’s credit cards, include a frozen margarita ($8.95); a frozen strawberry margarita ($9.50); and two cocktails called JamaicaMe Crazy ($19.90), which is a mixed drink that one website describes as tasting like strawberry-banana Starbursts, only better.

Click here to view a sampling of receipts showing extensive travel, fine dining and purchase of holiday gifts for employees and board members.

This and other drink and dinner tabs, as well as lodging and airfare for some trips, appear, based on an extensive review of records, to be paid for using the authority’s line of credit even as participants also received an “expense” voucher cut before their trips.

These vouchers are based on accounting that includes -- as part of the calculation -- reimbursement for mileage to far-off destinations, as if a personal vehicle was taken, even though participants flew in most cases. The vouchers also appear duplicative in nature – as in, it seems as though the authority provided “reimbursements” for at least some expenses also pre-paid or funded on location using the authority’s line of credit, such as for transportation, lodging and some meals.

December 2012 Las Vegas example

ALL OF THE DISGUSTING here
Living large on the public dime : News

LMAOROG. Moron

 

[Dad2three]

Reagan's Budget was called dead on arrival by Tip Oneil. Reagan never got a budget through. He had to go over O'Neil's head to get a few blue dog democrats to get anything passed. The DNC kept adding to his budget. Congress (lib) kept increasing Reagan's budgets.

LIAR, IN THE HOUSE NOTHING GETS BY WITHOUT THE MAJORITY SUPPORT DUMBASS!


As reported on the previous page, the House Appropriations Committee conducted a study that compared Reagan's concrete proposals to what Congress actually passed, not what was spent afterwards. And it found that Reagan asked for $29.4 billion more than Congress passed.

Reagan's Budget Proposals


The historical myth that Reagan raised $1 of taxes in exchange for $3 of spending cuts

In fact, historical budget data show that Congress did reduce spending. From 1982 to 1983, nondefense discretionary spending fell from 4.3 percent to 4.2 percent of the overall economy (gross domestic product) — and then kept falling until it reached 3.4 percent of GDP in 1989. Defense spending kept going up until 1986.

The historical myth that Reagan raised $1 of taxes in exchange for $3 of spending cuts

GOP SENATE FOR 6 YEARS REMEMBER DUMMY? lol

Right and control of the Senate means you no longer have to go to the House for anything, right Dummy?

Watch and Learn

Good you agree, Ronnie's budget "proposal" was built on BS that NEVER materialized and the premise that it was the Dems who blew up spending is BS, UNLESS you also want to blame the GOP for what happened under Obama 2010- forward?

AGAIN, Ronnie Reagan TRIPLED the debt WHILE IN OFFICE and was responsible for the nearly $3 trillion in excess SS payments that were created over the next 30 years that NOW need to be paid back, ALL TO HIDE THE COST OF TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH, AS HE "SAVED SS"?? lol


Just google Rosy scenario and Stockman... lol

 

[Wyatt earp]

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.....

Ya know what's ironic?

The U.S. Forrest department has signs in yellow stone and other National and state parks that read

"Please don't feed the animals "

The reason being they don't want the animals to rely on hand outs and not to be able to care for themselves.

 

[Political Junky]

This guy is republican and on food stamps, but he says he deserves them.

 

[ninja007]

This guy is republican and on food stamps, but he says he deserves them.

for every one of these, there 100 libs, mostly black on them and welfare.

 

[BluesLegend]

I hear there's millions of jobs available that illegals are working, Americans can work those jobs and we'll boot the illegals the hell out of our country.