Straight from USDA food stampage increased more under O than Bush

[tyroneweaver]

a fact which the dems were able to keep from the public until after the election

Obama Admin Revised Food Stamp Participation Report to Show Larger Increase Than Under Bush 43 -- After the Election | NewsBusters

 

[AmyNation]

Really? Who was "keeping it from the public"?

I remember seeing tons of stories about the rise in food stamps, which makes sense with high long term unemployment numbers.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Really? Who was "keeping it from the public"?

I remember seeing tons of stories about the rise in food stamps, which makes sense with high long term unemployment numbers.

but obama apologist on this forum were stating it rose more under bush than obama which apparently is not true.

 

[g5000]

Really? Who was "keeping it from the public"?

I remember seeing tons of stories about the rise in food stamps, which makes sense with high long term unemployment numbers.

but obama apologist on this forum were stating it rose more under bush than obama which apparently is not true.

Links?

 

[g5000]

Really? Who was "keeping it from the public"?

I remember seeing tons of stories about the rise in food stamps, which makes sense with high long term unemployment numbers.

Exactly. Who could forget Gingrich's immortal phrase, "food stamp president"?

 

[Cowman]

In case you've forgotten, at the very end of Bush's term we went into a nosedive with the recession.

Idiot.

 

[Pheonixops]

a fact which the dems were able to keep from the public until after the election

Obama Admin Revised Food Stamp Participation Report to Show Larger Increase Than Under Bush 43 -- After the Election | NewsBusters

So? You don't think it can be fallout from the economic disaster that happened at the end of the previous Administration?

 

[g5000]

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/04-19-SNAP.pdf

The number of people receiving SNAP benefits increased
by almost 50 percent between fiscal years 2001 and 2005
and even more rapidly (by 70 percent) between fiscal
years 2007 and 2011. During that latter period, spending
on SNAP benefits grew by about 135 percent. The
increase in the number of people eligible for and receiving
benefits between 2007 and 2011 has been driven
primarily by the weak economy. That increase was
responsible for about 65 percent of the growth in
spending on benefits between 2007 and 2011. About
20 percent of the growth in spending can be attributed
to temporarily higher benefit amounts enacted in the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(ARRA). The remainder stemmed from other factors,
such as higher food prices and lower income among beneficiaries,
both of which boost benefits.

So there was a 50 percent increase in Bush's first term. Followed by a 70 percent increase for the period including his second term and the first two years of Obama's first term.

Between 1990 and 2011, the number of SNAP participants
increased during periods of relatively high
unemployment (see Figure 1). Even as the unemployment
rate began to decline from its 1992, 2003, and
2010 peaks, decreases in participation typically lagged
improvement in the economy by several years. For
example, the number of SNAP participants rose steadily
from about 20 million in the fall of 1989 to more than
27 million in April 1994—nearly two years after the
unemployment rate began to fall and a full three years
after the official end of the recession in March 1991. The
number of people receiving SNAP benefits began to
climb again in 2001 and continued to grow until 2006,
more than two years after the unemployment rate began
to decline and well after that recession ended (in November
2001). The number of participants temporarily
leveled off in 2006 and 2007 until the unemployment
rate began to rise sharply in 2008. Participation then
started to grow quickly and has continued to increase
since then.

So we find that is entirely normal for SNAP participation to increase for many years beyond the last recession.

The primary reason
for the increase in the number of participants was the
deep recession from December 2007 to June 2009 and
the subsequent slow recovery; there were no significant
legislative expansions of eligibility for the program during
that time.

Considering the Bush Recession was the greatest crash since the Great Depression, none of these figures being cited for the years following that crash should be the least bit surprising now that we have much more context in which to consider them.

 

[OKTexas]

In case you've forgotten, at the very end of Bush's term we went into a nosedive with the recession.

Idiot.

Yep and your boy said it was all better, remember the summer recovery tour a couple of years back? Were they lying?

 

[tinydancer]

The lengths this administration will go to to mislead the public on a continual basis is amazing.

I still don't understand why on earth we are comparing 8 years of food stamp increase under Bush compared to the 4 years under Obama.

Obama Admin Revised Food Stamp Participation Report to Show Larger Increase Than Under Bush 43 -- After the Election


From the article:

The last pre-election report released on September 28 showed an enrollment increase of just under 14.7 million during Obama's first 42 months. As large as that increase was, it was still 67,000 below the Bush administration's eight-year increase of 14.765 million.

On December 7, that all changed when USDA inexplicably increased July's participation figure by over 154,000, meaning that the food stamp rolls had by July grown by 14.853 million -- 87,000 more than the increase during Bush's eight years.

Rest of article at link:

Obama Admin Revised Food Stamp Participation Report to Show Larger Increase Than Under Bush 43 -- After the Election | NewsBusters

 

[Political Junky]

NewBusters ... Wow.

 

[tinydancer]

NewBusters ... Wow.

USDA reported in NewsBusters. The link the source.

Information hidden from the public before an election.

 

[Lakhota]

Bush shit the bed and left town. Obama is still trying to clean up his mess.

 

[tinydancer]

a fact which the dems were able to keep from the public until after the election

Obama Admin Revised Food Stamp Participation Report to Show Larger Increase Than Under Bush 43 -- After the Election | NewsBusters

So? You don't think it can be fallout from the economic disaster that happened at the end of the previous Administration?

8 years of Bush and 4 years of Obama. It's not the why. It's why the July figures weren't adjusted to our knowledge till December 7th.

And if you read the article any revision made in the past two years was less than 20,000 and yet the July revision released in December after the election was a staggering 154,000.

Hell's bells if it wasn't done purposefully it still sucks. Because it means morons can't add at the USDA.

And they are in charge of your tax dollars. Think about it.

 

[rdean]

The economy Bush left Obama kind of explains it. Bush really screwed his base.

 

[tinydancer]

Bush shit the bed and left town. Obama is still trying to clean up his mess.

That's not the point of the OP is it now?

 

[Black_Label]

NewBusters ... Wow.

Just what I was thinking, a bunch of radical right wing bullshit.

 

[Vel]

a fact which the dems were able to keep from the public until after the election

Obama Admin Revised Food Stamp Participation Report to Show Larger Increase Than Under Bush 43 -- After the Election | NewsBusters

So? You don't think it can be fallout from the economic disaster that happened at the end of the previous Administration?

8 years of Bush and 4 years of Obama. It's not the why. It's why the July figures weren't adjusted to our knowledge till December 7th.

And if you read the article any revision made in the past two years was less than 20,000 and yet the July revision released in December after the election was a staggering 154,000.

Hell's bells if it wasn't done purposefully it still sucks. Because it means morons can't add at the USDA.

And they are in charge of your tax dollars. Think about it.

Always assume that the Obama cheerleaders here at USMB will go out of their way to miss the point of a story if it reflects the truth about the Divider in Chief.

 

[Againsheila]

Bush shit the bed and left town. Obama is still trying to clean up his mess.

4 years later, you're still Blaming it on Bush?

 

[tinydancer]

Deflect, deflect deflect.

NewBuster's source is linked.

Here ya go sparky.

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