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| 46,609,072 People on Food Stamps in 2012; Record 47,791,996 in December; Nearly a quarter of the people living in Washington, D.C. are on the program | |
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| Neutral | Mar 12 2013, 02:27 AM Post #1 |
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On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was the biggest it's ever been, with an average of 46,609,072 people on the program every month of last year. 47,791,996 people were on the program in the month of December 2012. The federal government also says that in a given month in 2012, the number of households on food stamps was 22,329,713. The state with the highest average number of participants per month in 2012 was Texas, with an astonishing 4,038,440 folks drawing from the program. The second highest is California, with 3,964,221, and then Florida, at 3,353,064. Washington, D.C., with an estimated population of 617,996, had an average of 141,147 participants. Meaning, roughly 23 percent of folks living in D.C. are on food stamps, according to the numbers provided by the federal government. The participation rate in Texas, which has an estimated population of 26,059,203, 15.5 percent. The state with the lowest number of participants in the program was Wyoming, with 34,347 out an estimated population of 576,412. Over the weekend, Senator Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that the Obama administration is encouraging growth in the food stamps program as a way to stimulate the economy. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/46609072-people-food-stamps-2012_706745.html |
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| Neutral | Mar 12 2013, 02:28 AM Post #2 |
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Tell me, how long will this last? We have over 80 million people not working, we are running out of producers to pay the bills. |
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| Pat | Mar 12 2013, 02:50 AM Post #3 |
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These numbers a re hard to fathom. Nearly 50 million incapable of feeding themselves. Another 80 million who claim they can't work or find a job. I call this BS. Hell we might as well all jump on the gravy train, it will bankrupt us and get it over with. |
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| Neutral | Mar 12 2013, 02:52 AM Post #4 |
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With that many it's much easier to install socialism. |
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| colo_crawdad | Mar 12 2013, 03:13 AM Post #5 |
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What an interesting assumption -- that those so called 80 million do not encompass those receiving food stamps. Interesting butt a rather ignorant assumption. I am surprised that Pat would accept it. Maybe he doesn't. We can all hope. |
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| Pat | Mar 12 2013, 03:15 AM Post #6 |
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You read far too much into what others post. Are you a mind reader? Just curious. |
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| colo_crawdad | Mar 12 2013, 03:25 AM Post #7 |
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No, I leave the mind reading to Neutral and Carnac the magnificent. I apologize if you did not mean to add the two figures together. |
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| Brewster | Mar 12 2013, 03:35 AM Post #8 |
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Shucks, we don't have food stamps in Canada. No wonder I'm hungry all the time! |
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| Banandangees | Mar 12 2013, 03:37 AM Post #9 |
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Peggy Noonan's article last week would fit in exactly with the theme of this thread: The Anti-Confidence Man "But it's a jobs crisis that's the central thing. And you see it everywhere you look." "It's all so frozen, so stuck. Just when America needs a boost, some faith, a breakthrough. Mr. Obama is making the same mistake he made four years ago. We are in a jobs crisis and he does not see it. He thinks he's in a wrestling match about taxing and spending, he thinks he's in a game with those dread Republicans. But the real question is whether the American people will be able to have jobs. Once they do, so much will follow—deficits go down a little as fewer need help, revenues go up as more pay taxes. Confidence and trust in the future will grow. People will be happier. There's little sense he sees this. Dr. Doom talks about coming disaster (campaigning from state to state) when businessmen need the confidence to hire someone. He's missing the boat on the central crisis of his second term." It's not that he is so oblivious to the job crisis that he doesn't see it. Jobs are not his priority. The economy is not a priority. The debt is not a priority. The middle east is not a priority. China is not a priority. His agenda is his priority (What is his agenda?). All this "gloom and doom" he's been preaching lately, and his constant oratory negativity toward the GOP, I think, is just case building to have the Republicans lose the House; then, there will be nothing standing in the way to block his pushing his entire far left agenda through. That's been his priority from the start, CHANGE IS COMING! A kind of change that we've never really invisioned for the US: (Just what is his agenda?) Noonan says: "Barack Obama really is a study in contrasts, such as aloof and omnipresent. He's never fully present and he won't leave. He speaks constantly, endlessly, but always seems to be withholding his true thoughts and plans. He was the candidate of hope and change, of "Yes, we can," but the mood of his governance has been dire, full of warnings, threats, cliffs and ceilings, full of words like suffering and punishment and sacrifice." |
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| Brewster | Mar 12 2013, 03:42 AM Post #10 |
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Ban, your paranoia is showing - again. You're seeing conspiracies when none exist. |
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