Posted on 08/30/2015 9:35:51 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Unemployment has dropped in recent years, yet still—far too many people are participating. One out of every seven Americans received SNAP benefits in 2014, and the program cost $74.1 billion, making it one of the largest means-tested welfare program.
You’d think the improving jobs situation would translate to the number of SNAP beneficiaries declining by a much larger margin. But that hasn’t been the case.
Another reason for saying that food stamp numbers aren’t really going in the right direction? Look at how the SNAP demographic has changed.
Before the 2008 recession, 55 percent of SNAP households consisted of children and the elderly. Now, however, a slight majority of recipients are non-elderly, able-bodied adults. There has also been an uptick in the number of working-age, able-bodied adults on SNAP who are not working.
Why? What explains the climbing numbers of non-working, non-elderly, working-age SNAP recipients?
At least part of the reason can be traced to the waiving of work requirements for childless, able-bodied, working-age adults during the recession. Simply put, we’re not requiring those who are able to work to do so.
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Such an amazingly successful Administration you have there, Mr. Obama!
Liberals mark their effectiveness by how many people receive aid.
Conservatives mark their effectiveness by how many people no longer need aid.
New daffynition of economic recovery I guess. Heard the gdp changed to +3.5 something. Maybe they really meant the ebt use increased by x. New math confuses me. :>}
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Steal from others to buy the man a fish every day and he will vote for you.
That’s what has allowed the Obamanation to cook the books on unemployment figures: take more and more people out of the work force and onto welfare.
28 August 2008
Barry Obama accepts the democrat nomination for president
7 years and 3 days ago
Bumper sticker!!!!
Over 100 million Americans use food assistance of some kind. There are at least 15 different programs of which SNAP is just one.
You can buy sushi, or anything pre-made if it’s cold, with food stamps in grocery stores. They helpfully place ‘EBT OK’ stickers on the product. Of course millennials aren’t going to pass up free sushi and lobster, even $100/mo worth.
If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach him to fish, he steals your lures when you’re distracted.
Progressives’ idea of progress!
I have no problem whatsoever feeding my fellow man. However he also better be trying to help himself, if he can’t, I’m willing to help. But, food, not soda pop, chips, cookies, candy, high end meats,etc. If he wants that, he can work for it a pay cash.
While the number of food stamp recipients has risen under Obama, let’s look at the history across several presidents. The number of recipients actually dropped under Reagan and Clinton. In fact, the number of recipients during Clinton’s last year in office (2000) was actually lower than at any time during the Reagan Administration.
George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all experienced double digit increases in food stamp recipients. Under George W. Bush, the number of recipients increased by 74%, 12.8 million people. Under Obama the number of recipients increased by 55%, 16.5 million people.
Here are the statistics:
In 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected President, 21 million Americans were receiving food stamp benefits. In 1988, when George H.W. Bush was elected President, the number was 18.6 million, a decrease of 11.4% during the 8 years under Reagan.
In 1992, the year Bill Clinton was elected president 25.7 million Americans were on food stamps. A 38% increase in recipients during the George H.W. Bush 4 year administration.
In 2000, the year George W. Bush was elected President, the number of Americans on food stamps was 17.2 million, a decrease of 33% during the 8 Clinton years
In 2008, the year Barak Obama was elected President, the number was 30 million, an increase of 74% during the eight Bush years.
The Obama years have seen an increase from 30 million to the current 46.5 million, a 55% increase during the 6.5 Obama years.
I’d like to see them go back to commodities I remember going with my grandmother to stand in a line that wrapped around the block. You had to actually need them to go stand in that line. It was also basics. You had to know how to cook and fix food.
If they’d go back to that you’d see the usage go way down. Food stamps put on an EBT card and used to purchase junk at a grocery store makes it all too easy.
Once again, I’m not in the IN crowd.
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