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How Did All These ‘Hungry’ People Get So Fat?

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!” News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.” But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at the Heritage Foundation, explains, “Food insecurity is not the same … Read more

GoGovernMe

by Ian Underwood

Recently, Reason published an article based on this analogy: ‘If a Walmart doesn’t reopen, families can take their food stamps elsewhere. If a school doesn’t reopen, families should similarly be able to take their education dollars elsewhere.’

Democrats Lie About Reforms to Food-Stamps

by Ed Mosca

This: and this: The reforms to Food-Stamps, however, do not affect children. From CNBC: The Trump administration changed food-stamp requirements because it wants people to find jobs, not simply remove people from the program, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told CNBC on Wednesday. “What we want to do is increase employment. We need these … Read more

Obama Tried to Get People on Food Stamps, Trump Has Helped 6.2 Million Get Off Them

by Steve MacDonald

From 2009 to 2012 Democrats added over 15 million people onto food stamps. It didn’t end there. The Feds encouraged states to sign people up for SNAP, Free School Lunches, and Welfare. The Medicaid Expansion provision of ObamaCare existed to get people on that too.

Trump Get’s Media to Insist Only 3.9 Million People Dropped Off Food Stamps

by Steve MacDonald

When the President said 5 Million people were dropping off Food Stamps, the media went to work to prove him wrong. It was only 3.9 Million you cad. How Brilliant is that? If he’d said 3.9 Million what number would the Media have ‘found?’

Maine Added Work Provision for Food Stamps – Guess What Happened?

by Steve MacDonald

(Daily Signal) In response to the growth in food stamp dependence, Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, recently established work requirements on recipients who are without dependents and able-bodied. In Maine, all able-bodied adults without dependents in the food stamp program are now required to take a job, participate in training, or perform community service. Job openings … Read more

One of many projects to destroy America…

by Tim Condon

This from Judicial Watch: “For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it.” Meanwhile, “the nation’s food stamp program has exploded under President Obama.” Read the … Read more

Sequester Will Destroy 170 Million Jobs

by Steve MacDonald

I confess that I missed this (until now).

Democrat Maxine Waters (D- Doh!), relieved that she is not in prison for all the corruption she has engaged in while elected to the US House of representatives, is making up for that by just being herself.

“We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these jobs losses, over 170 million jobs that could be lost – and so he made it very clear he’s not opposed to cuts but cuts must be done over a long period of time and in a very planned way rather than this blunt cutting that will be done by sequestration.”

As Charles C.W. Cooke points out at NRO’s The Corner, there are only about 134 million jobs in America.

Seven “Firsts” for the US Economy

by Steve MacDonald

Gas Prices - Washington Post Business Review — Gas Prices – Image Credit: Washington Post.com

From Wynton Hall at Breitbart…an end of year (or beginning of year) list of Mr. Obama’s new normal. This is his America, and that of Democrats who have had a majority control of the US government for six years now. Mr. Hall calls these “seven firsts for the US economy.”

1. All-time record annual average gas price: In 2012, the average cost of a gallon of gas eclipsed the previous record by nine cents, bringing the annual average to $3.60.

2. All-time record food stamp participation: As of last month, for the first time in American history, 47,710,324 individuals — roughly one out of every seven people living in the United States — now receive food stamps.

Chasing the Equality Rabbit Down the Democrat’s Debt Hole

by Steve MacDonald

Even if it does not appear obvious, even to the casual observer, once government gets started on something it is difficult to get it to stop. So where exactly do we expect the Democrats notions of state managed economic leveling to take us? Their talk of economic equality centers on the idea that the government not only knows what “is” the best idea of equality but that it can actually deliver it.

Let us assume, even for just a moment, that this can be done at all. Does anyone in that group of believers think that the government can make us all rich? Can the government even regulate and tax into existence a nation of middle income householders of adequate means?

To answer this consider the arc of recent spending. Since 2006 when Democrats took congress, we have added almost seven trillion in debt. Since Mr. Obama took the White House,we have added six trillion of that. So in just a few years the Democrat party–the people who claim they can deliver economic equality–have added 40% to the national debt. Forty Percent.

Are things better, more economically equal?

Jobs Vs. Food Stamps Obama Economy Throw-Down

by Steve MacDonald

One Graph to rule them all? I think this says something about what six trillion in new Democrat-debt buys you. Fewer jobs, shrinking work force participation, and more people in need of assistance. That’s why we call Obama the Food Stamp President. He can’t fix it from the inside unless by fix you mean make … Read more

Real Unemployment at 19%…

by Steve MacDonald

Wynton Hall at Breitbart.com wrote this. I’m just sharing it. Consider the following 11 economic facts: 1. When you include the underutilized labor figure with the eight million Americans who have lost hope altogether and stopped looking for a job, real unemployment now stands at just under 19 percent. 2. If the labor force were … Read more

Parliment of Whores Update – ‘Fore’ More Years

by Steve MacDonald

The lefts parliament of whores has convened in Charlotte and two important things happened. First, Charlotte’s collective IQ dropped 70 points. Second, they want four more years. Of what? Adding another six trillion to the national debt? Another 48 months of unemployment over 8%? Median income dropping another $4,000.00? 47 million people on food stamps? … Read more

New Hampshire Democrats Hate Poor People

by Steve MacDonald

Democrats are, as a party, against requiring an ID to vote. Everyone knows that. They argue that the poor, or minorities will be intimidated, or unable to engage in the electoral process if we expect them to have a photo ID. Not only do you need a picture ID to apply for Food Stamps in … Read more

If the economy is getting better…(Part 3)

by Steve MacDonald

…then why has the number of Americans on food stamps increased by 3 million since this time last year and by more than 14 million since Barack Obama entered the White House?

There’s something to put on your resume.

“When I was President (pause) we created or saved (pause) a kajillion billion jobs (pause) but somehow (pause) put 14 million people on food stamps in the process.” (applause from adoring media, I mean Democrats–eh, same thing.)

How does that work?

The Food Stamp Nation and Its’ President

by Rick Olson

“I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.” —Eminem

During the Republican Presidential Debates, Newt Gingrich referred to President Obama as the, “Food Stamp President.” That was last week. Yet, over two years ago, Wyatt Emmerich, Publisher for the Northside Sun based in Jackson, Mississippi posited an editorial where his underlying thesis was, “a one-parent family of three making $14,500 a year (minimum wage) has more disposable income than a family making $60,000 a year.” (See Emmerich’s Editorial in its entirety, Here)

7 Things About Obama

by Steve MacDonald

Things everyone should know about Democrat leadership. (No need to remind you that they will blame everyone but themselves for it.) Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has. The real unemployment rate … Read more

A Typical Day In Mr. Buckley’s Neighborhood

by Steve MacDonald

These folks have all insisted, in one way or another, that things like unemployment, food stamps, even destruction of public and private property, are good for the economy. So using their metrics, these are things Democrats should not complain about unless they are actually bad for the economy.