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No problem, I love 1.8% GDP growth, 6.2 trillion added to the debt, record numbers on food stamps, 1 in three Americans dependent on some form of taxpayer assistance, over a million discouraged workers. Yes, "your" President has been a huge economic success
Spent 35 years in the business world working in the U.S. economy. What is your experience?
We asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition service for month-by-month figures going back to January 2001. And they show that under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Nothing before comes close to that.
And under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million. To be exact, the program has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obama's time in office than during Bush's.
It's possible that when the figures for January 2012 are available they will show that the gain under Obama has matched or exceeded the gain under Bush. But not if the short-term trend continues. The number getting food stamps declined by 43,528 in October. And the economy has improved since then.
Update, Feb. 5: RevisedUSDA datareleased in February showed the downward trend continued for a second straight month in November, when the number of persons getting food stamps was 134,418 fewer than it had been at the peak.
Fact check: Gingrich's faulty food-stamp claim