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Food Stamp Rolls to Grow Through 2014, CBO Says

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Food Stamp Rolls to Grow Through 2014, CBO Says - Real Time Economics - WSJ

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014.

Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion four years earlier. The CBO projected that one in seven U.S. residents received food stamps last year.

Enrollment way up, spending more than doubled. Yeah, it is obvious this economy is on the right track and growing. :roll:
 
Thank you Barack Obama. :roll:
 
Thank you Barack Obama. :roll:

And thanks Bush for kicking it all off. Gotta love the Republocrats, doesn't matter which side of the coin we got; they try to **** us over and take the coin regardless.
 
And thanks Bush for kicking it all off. Gotta love the Republocrats, doesn't matter which side of the coin we got; they try to **** us over and take the coin regardless.

Bush started Food Stamps ? .... WHO KNEW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
 
And thanks Bush for kicking it all off. Gotta love the Republocrats, doesn't matter which side of the coin we got; they try to **** us over and take the coin regardless.

the problem is far older than that, and is even broader than bipartisan. it began in the early 1970s or before.

the decades surrounding globalization and mechanization will be interesting historically. it's almost as if we're entering a post-labor economy. unfortunately, it's happening from the ground up, as those jobs are most easily replaced by machines or cheap labor. when that labor ceases to be cheap, it will be a race to the bottom. once the bottom is reached, those jobs will be mechanized as well.
 
Bush started Food Stamps ? .... WHO KNEW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

Nope, he kicked off the recession which was sustained by Obama and now is leading to the rise. Did you really need your hand held for that?
 
Nope, he kicked off the recession which was sustained by Obama and now is leading to the rise. Did you really need your hand held for that?

If Bush kicked off the recession - and caused it - then why can't Obama end it since it's all, apparently, within presidential powers to roll the ball and stop it at the same time.

It's much more broad than that - just what, exactly, did Bush do to cause it *all* to happen? Do you think that it's all happening like this because we chose to go dance around in the Middle East? Do you think if we ended our involvement over there right now that everything would go back to 'normal' (if there is such a thing - I guess we could say pre 9/11 standards)

Like it or not: we're not holding the ball in this court - **** happens - note: it's happening worldwide: not just in the US.

The world is changing.
 
If Bush kicked off the recession - and caused it - then why can't Obama end it since it's all, apparently, within presidential powers to roll the ball and stop it at the same time.

It's much more broad than that - just what, exactly, did Bush do to cause it *all* to happen? Do you think that it's all happening like this because we chose to go dance around in the Middle East? Do you think if we ended our involvement over there right now that everything would go back to 'normal' (if there is such a thing - I guess we could say pre 9/11 standards)

Like it or not: we're not holding the ball in this court - **** happens - note: it's happening worldwide: not just in the US.

The world is changing.

Not to be too particular, but the recession technically ended in the summer of 2009.
 
Nope, he kicked off the recession which was sustained by Obama and now is leading to the rise. Did you really need your hand held for that?

LOL ..... it would seem you need bread crumbs to follow.

The OP had it properly framed from the beginning:

"Enrollment way up, spending more than doubled. Yeah, it is obvious this economy is on the right track and growing. :roll:"

That little sarcasm smilie at the end was supposed to be a visual clue for the liberal impaired.

Obama says his plans are working. OK. Thanks for these results Obama.
 
If Bush kicked off the recession - and caused it - then why can't Obama end it since it's all, apparently, within presidential powers to roll the ball and stop it at the same time.

End it? No, he's just soldiering on with Bush style policies. Of course he's not ending it, he's proliferating it.
 
LOL ..... it would seem you need bread crumbs to follow.

The OP had it properly framed from the beginning:

"Enrollment way up, spending more than doubled. Yeah, it is obvious this economy is on the right track and growing. :roll:"

That little sarcasm smilie at the end was supposed to be a visual clue for the liberal impaired.

Obama says his plans are working. OK. Thanks for these results Obama.

Hmm, maybe I should use smiles for the republocrat impaired. I understand that nothing Obama is doing is working. I get that. The recession is still in full swing, but Obama doesn't care about the regular folk; just the banks and wallstreet. Same as Bush. In fact, there's very little functional difference between the two. Obama's plans are working as well as Bush's plans have worked. This is just a continuous long string of affairs by both Republicans and Democrats which led us to this spot. And now we see large sustained unemployment numbers and very little actual movement by the government to rectify the problem. Their buddy's got theirs, and now they no longer care about "fixes".

Republocrats, screwing us over one administration at a time.
 
And thanks Bush for kicking it all off. Gotta love the Republocrats, doesn't matter which side of the coin we got; they try to **** us over and take the coin regardless.

"Welfare" began as a program to HELP now it is a program to SUPPORT. The scum that lays in it's own waste screaming when that check doesn't come are typical of all mouth breathers that do not grasp the concept of self support much less bettering their situations. The day is coming when welfare like social security and health care, will begin to shrink to oblivion and those that survived off it will then be forced to lives of crime in order to eat.
 
Not to be too particular, but the recession technically ended in the summer of 2009.

That's what the propagandists would like for us to believe, anyway.
 
Hmm, maybe I should use smiles for the republocrat impaired. I understand that nothing Obama is doing is working. I get that. The recession is still in full swing, but Obama doesn't care about the regular folk; just the banks and wallstreet. Same as Bush. In fact, there's very little functional difference between the two. Obama's plans are working as well as Bush's plans have worked. This is just a continuous long string of affairs by both Republicans and Democrats which led us to this spot. And now we see large sustained unemployment numbers and very little actual movement by the government to rectify the problem. Their buddy's got theirs, and now they no longer care about "fixes".

Republocrats, screwing us over one administration at a time.

Of course it's all very easy to sit outside the window and shout at everyone inside, but there IS a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. You may not like either party, but they are not the same.
 
Of course it's all very easy to sit outside the window and shout at everyone inside, but there IS a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. You may not like either party, but they are not the same.

Yea they are. The present themselves different publically but they are exactly the same greedy bunch of corrupt assholes on both sides. You are just blind to the one side that holds your leash.
 
Yea they are. The present themselves different publically but they are exactly the same greedy bunch of corrupt assholes on both sides. You are just blind to the one side that holds your leash.

There are major systemic problems -- like the corrupting influence of money -- that infect both sides, but that does not make them identical.
 
Technicalities don't mean ****. The reality is, we're still in a recession.

I'm of the opinion that words should mean something, so we should not say we are in a recession when we are not. In a recession, GDP contracts. GDP has been expanding for several years. Therefore we are not in recession. That doesn't mean that the economy isn't bad, because obviously it is.
 
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