“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid producing a chart to show Republicans that “things are a lot better.”
Here’s a chart to show how dramatically the number of SNAP recipients increased since January 2009:
http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/34SNAPmonthly.htm
January 2009 — 14.5M households; 32.2M persons.
February 2009 — 14.6M households; 32.5M persons.
March 2009 — 14.9M households; 33.1M persons.
April 2009 — 15.2M households; 33.7M persons.
May 2009 — 15.5M households; 34.4M persons.
June 2009 — 15.9M households; 35.1M persons.
July 2009 — 16.2M households; 35.8M persons.
August 2009 — 16.5M households; 36.4M persons.
Numbers aren’t yet available for September 2009 and October 2009 but the trend is clear
“Deepen, exacerbate existing problems, crises, differences, and if they don’t exist, create them and then deepen, exacerbate them...and profit [politically, ideologically and even financially] the most from them in any way you can, and, in the resulting chaos, blame our enemies for the whole thing.” — Vladimir Ilich Ulianov (Lenin)