If you want a crystal clear indicator of how President Obama has taken America down the road of dependence, look no further than the record high level of people on food stamps.
Now of course, liberals don’t want you to look at that number: they’d much rather you and everyone else pour over the unemployment rate, which has reached it’s lowest point in 8 years. What they don’t tell you though is that the government doesn’t take into account people who aren’t even members of the workforce when it tallies that number up.
So how are all these able-bodied, unemployed people getting by? You guessed it – food stamps, which peaked at 47, 636,000 in 2013 and remain close to that estimate.
Examining the issue further, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reports that the number of people on benefits has been around 46 million since 2011. More specifically, it has been calculated that there are currently 45.8 Americans who get food stamps.
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But this unprecedented surge in food stamp dependence didn’t just happen in a vacuum: it was the result of a policy deliberately implemented by this administration. Indeed, when one looks at the available data, one can see the number of food stamp recipients skyrocketed after Obama took office:
Several reasons explain the high numbers. Governments have made it easier to sign up for the program. More than 85 percent of eligible food-stamp recipients took assistance in 2013, the most recent year of available data, compared to 70 percent in 2008. The higher sign-up rate among those qualified accounts for 8.6 million more people on food stamps — about half of the program’s total increase.
Well, at least President Obama put forth one program that has been easy to sign up for.
We now have a country based on government dependence. Heritage Foundation research fellow Robert Rector said, “Clearly there’s a group of people who are not in the labor force, and 10 years ago they would have been. Now they’re relying on food stamps.”
When we have a government full of enablers telling people that they don’t have to work to provide for themselves and their families, they create an atmosphere of dependence and reliance.
Source: MRCTV
The one number the sorriest president ever brought up higher !
everyone knows that Obama unemployment number are a total lie just like his presidency…. he whole time in office has been a lie from day one
What is there? like 3 white people in that long line???
Ridiculous already
well with companies moving south of the border and tbousands of jobs outsourced and all the Legal H–visa Foreign workers that get trained by the citizens workers who all readyhave been told they are being let go and to get the benifits they worked for…esp someone who has been a loyal harding working emp for more than ten years……its hard to get hired on in your later years..then illegals are hired and paid less than min wage due to company not paying all the taxes that they with hold or not paying some company benifits like dental or doctor bills…..Remember the jobs taken are not all working picking fruit.
Lies don’t you get Obama he lies and people actually believe his unemployment numbers. They don’t count the ones not getting unemployment fools!
Actually the figure is 92 million job age unemployed. That is over 1/3 of our population. So 35% sounds right.
How is this possible? Obama says he has created millions of jobs & gotten people off food stamps.
Obamas govtr unemployment figures are a ruse. Can’t count those who have exhausted benefits and have no jobs just like always another lying stat from the biggest most corrupt entity on earth the DNC NWO socialist/communist party.
looks like a pretty “dark” line.