David G – your understanding of the rise of food stamps – which you attribute to changes in policy by Bush – is totally false.
Here’s an analysis:
http://reflectionsofarationalrepublican.com/2011/08/09/bush-vs-obama-food-stamps/
Take a look at the statistics- ratio and dates.
And read what it says – read what came in with Obama’s 2009 Stimulus Bill:
“The fact is that President Obama’s policies have allowed more people than ever to qualify for food stamps, including those outside the traditional low-income demographic. The program used to be limited to 3 months in a 3-year period for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) “who were not working, participating in, and complying with the requirements of a work program for 20 hours or more each week, or a workfare program.”
However, President Obama, and the then-Democratically controlled Congress expanded the program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, more popularly known as the “Stimulus Bill”, to ABAWDs:
“Beginning April 1, 2009, and extending through FY 2010, SNAP benefits of Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) will not be limited under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 unless an individual does not comply with the requirements of a program offered by the State agency that meets standards contained in the Act.”
According to The Daily Caller, the USDA is “pushing to regional SNAP offices to ease eligibility requirements and forgo checking people’s financial situations before providing benefits.”
Certainly, the use of food stamps rose under Bush, but they’ve exponentially increased under Obama – and he hasn’t done a thing to reduce them or to move investment capital into the private sector – to create jobs rather than food stamps.
Remember, Obama’s Stimulus wasn’t money given to the private sector but to enable the unionized public service to continue to exist…off the taxpayers. The public sector doesn’t create jobs; it consumes taxpayer money. Only the private sector creates jobs – and Obama has been starving this sector of investment capital. THINK.
