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US Foodstamp Usage Rises To New Record High
ZeroHedge ^ | 10/5/2012 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 10/05/2012 4:28:45 PM PDT by mojito

...[T]here was one other, far more important data point released by the government's Department of Agriculture, sufficiently late after the market close to impact no risk assets. That data point of course was foodstamps (or the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka SNAP), and we are confident that no readers will be surprised to learn that foodstamp usage for both persons and households, has jumped to a new all time record.

At 46,681,833 million the persons hooked on SNAP, the July number crossed the previous record posted a short month before, as the foodstamp curve continues 'plumbing' newer and greater heights each month.

More disturbing is that in the same month, the number of US households reliant on foodstamps rose by a whopping 99,493 to 22,541,744.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; democrats; deptofagriculture; ebt; foodstamppresident; foodstamps; nobmam2012; obama; obanomics; snap
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To: musicman

Lol. Was the car a 2011 or 2012 Mercedes?


21 posted on 10/06/2012 2:40:28 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: mojito
Funny thing, i sell some old stuff on ebay, and someone sent me a message asking if they can buy it with food stamp.
22 posted on 10/06/2012 2:54:01 PM PDT by johnsondavid841
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To: musicman
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23 posted on 10/06/2012 2:55:27 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL


24 posted on 10/06/2012 3:07:28 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: mojito

They’re one and the same. Lots of new jobs at crap wages, so they’re no longer unemployed, just underemployed, and eligible for food stamps.


25 posted on 10/06/2012 4:25:55 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: amishman

Or... that’s nearly the equivalent of the entire population of the Midwest...


26 posted on 10/06/2012 5:31:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: a fool in paradise
Obamameals.

On twenny-fo inch wheels yo.

27 posted on 10/06/2012 6:27:48 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Official Romney/GOP-E Platform - We suck less)
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To: musicman

And here is another:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/receipt.asp


28 posted on 10/06/2012 11:15:39 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: AlanGreenSpam

The ultra Hussein Heads at Snopes refuse to call it genuine.

Few’s heads are farther up Hussein’s o-hole than the Mikkelsons.


29 posted on 10/07/2012 5:24:11 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: mojito

Obama IS the food stamp president!

And the media chewed Newt’s arse for pointing it out.


30 posted on 10/07/2012 5:36:41 AM PDT by a real Sheila (RYAN/romney 2012)
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To: a real Sheila

It’s racist! /s


31 posted on 10/07/2012 12:22:08 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: mojito

I believe it is at an all time high. There is no doubt about that in my mind.

I just know.


32 posted on 10/07/2012 12:41:31 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: moviefan8

IS part of the reason for food price inflation!
It’s only
Government money escalate prices and get it now!
It may not be there in the future!
So the taxpayer suffers on two fronts!


33 posted on 10/07/2012 2:26:39 PM PDT by Conserev1
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To: Conserev1

I might as well apply as well. Others are getting it, so why shouldn’t I?

Government can’t be giving out money forever. Something needs to be done.

We are well along the road into becoming Greece.


34 posted on 10/07/2012 2:44:43 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: mojito
FORWARD!!!

/s

35 posted on 10/07/2012 3:01:00 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: musicman

The part they neglected to mention was....it was stolen out of her 2011 Lexus.


36 posted on 10/07/2012 8:15:22 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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37 posted on 10/07/2012 8:24:52 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: mojito

Nothing to see here....move along...


38 posted on 10/08/2012 3:54:18 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: mojito

Wait, I thought unemployment numbers had dropped to a record low in the Obama Error.

Proof that they just dropped millions from the unemployment rolls and have left them to draw gub’mint money from other piles.

Obamanomics is Not Working.


39 posted on 10/08/2012 10:20:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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