OBAMA ‘IS’ THE FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT…

Yet another sign that Barry is right when he makes the claim that he now has our economy fully back on track, and going gangbusters, is the fact that the number of ‘beneficiaries’ on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, has topped 46,000,000 for 40 straight months.  This proof of a booming economy comes to us by way of recent data released by the Department of Agriculture (USDA).  And yes, I’m being more than just a bit sarcastic here.

In December 2014, which is the latest month where data was reported, there were 46,252,064 Americans on food stamps and with that food stamp recipients have exceeded 46 million in each month since September 2011.  As it happens, the 46,252,064 on food stamps in December was down from the 46,263,096 on food stamps in November, which was a rather unimpressive decline of 11,032.  But I’m sure Barry saw that number as being very significant.

Now according to estimates by the Census Bureau as of July 2014 the national population stood at 318,857,056.  Thus, the 46,252,064 Americans on food stamps equaled roughly 14 percent of the entire population.  While the number of beneficiaries did decline over the month, the number of households on food stamps actually increased. There were 22,724,435 households on food stamps in December, which was up 28,141 from the 22,696,294 households on food stamps in November.

As of last September, again according to the Census Bureau, there were 115,831,000 households in the country.  Thus, the 22,724,435 households on food stamps in December equaled nearly 20 percent of the nation’s households.  Households on food stamps got an average benefit of $259.98 during the month, which brought the total cost to the taxpayers, for these supposed ‘benefits’, if you want to call them that, for just a single month to the rather staggering sum of $5,907,873,849.  You do the math.

Let’s say we take a little trip through the looking-glass to 1969, to a time before socialists like Jimmy Carter, ‘Slick Willie’ Clinton and Barry “Almighty” came onto the scene.  It was then that the average participation in the SNAP program stood at a mere 2,878,000.  Then we fast-forward to 2014, and to a time where average participation has now grown to a staggering 46,536,000, or an increase of 1516.96 percent.  How can anyone think that’s acceptable?

And if we were to look back no further than January 2009, or when Barry was first elected, there were 32 million Americans on food stamps, so what we have now had is an increase of over 45 percent in just 6 years.  Barry came into office on a mission, and that mission was to essentially break the bank in any way that he could.  And massively increasing entitlement programs, such as food stamps, is but one way he is trying, and succeeding, in doing just that.  The madness must be stopped.  But will it?