Food Stamp Usage Hits Record 39 Million, 14th Consecutive Monthly Increase

[Mr. P]

See how that Hope an Change works?


Food stamp usage is up again except the program is now called SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Inquiring minds are looking at a SNAP Participation Table that shows a record 39,430,724 receive SNAP benefits, a 22.4% increase from a year ago.

Biggest State Increases

Arizona – 32.9%
Colorado – 32.9%
Florida – 38.6%
Idaho – 45.7%
Nevada – 46.9%
Rhode Island – 42.4%
South Dakota – 32.6%
Utah – 37.3%
Wisconsin – 38.9%
Wyoming – 40.0%

Those numbers are as of January 2010

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[darin]

Dude...c'mon P. It's BUSH's fault. Seriously...It'll BE Bush's fault until something GOOD happens. :(

[LiberalNation]

economy was wrecked under bush's hands off regulation policy that let bankers run wild. No suprise, people out of work gets on the dole.

[Mr. P]

economy was wrecked under bush's hands off regulation policy that let bankers run wild. No suprise, people out of work gets on the dole.

Go back to the dot com bubble burst and work forward..then we can talk about who did what and when. Geeezzzz buy em books and send em to school...

[darin]

economy was wrecked under bush's hands off regulation policy that let bankers run wild. No suprise, people out of work gets on the dole.



Uh - the housing bubble burst? remember that little thing? Do a little research into why high-risk folks were given loans.

Spoiler Alert!! It's because the banks were pressured to do so...from whom? Yeah...Congress...Democrat-controlled-congress.... (sigh).

[Abbey Marie]

Uh - the housing bubble burst? remember that little thing? Do a little research into why high-risk folks were given loans.

Spoiler Alert!! It's because the banks were pressured to do so...from whom? Yeah...Congress...Democrat-controlled-congress.... (sigh).

:thumb:

Oddly enough, LN, a Dem Congressman with the initials BF (whom you might feel a certain compatability with), was the prime mover behind the policy.

[LiberalNation]

Bush was very supportive of home ownership for the low income, look it up, I remember him saying it.

[CSM]

Bush was very supportive of home ownership for the low income, look it up, I remember him saying it.

It takes a CONGRESS to make law and specifically a democrat to make stupid laws requiring banks to make bad loans. You stretch like that too often and you are going to hurt yourself!

[darin]

Bush was very supportive of home ownership for the low income, look it up, I remember him saying it.

That's beside the point - the piont is - GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT screwed shit up. And people like you want MORE of it?