{"id":50227,"date":"2013-07-24T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=50227"},"modified":"2013-07-24T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:55:04","slug":"two-americans-added-to-food-stamp-rolls-for-every-job-administration-says-it-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=50227","title":{"rendered":"“Two Americans Added to Food Stamp Rolls for Every Job Administration Says It Created”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which, if I understand Pelosi math<\/a>, means that all that food stamp usage is actually growing the economy, forcing funds into the private sector, while all the job growth is just gravy, creating as it does new tax payers to fund the food stamp programs that infuse the economy with capital!<\/p>\n

The logic is unassailable: more money into the economy = good. More jobs = more taxpayers x higher tax rates = good.\u00a0 I know this because the impartial watchdog group Media Matters found economists<\/a> who very strongly, and without any kind of political agenda, agreed with the astute former Madame Speaker.<\/p>\n

So. If I’m being fair, I’d have to give Obama, et al., a B+ at this point on the economy.\u00a0 While noting, with the independent-minded statesman John McCain, that the President’s work on race relations has been “impressive.”<\/p>\n

— Making the unhelpful<\/em> tone of this CNS piece<\/a> truly puzzling. I mean, don’t they even understand economics over at that den of bitterclinging, latent domestic terrorists? Or is it all just that voodoo “trickle down” bullshit that they continue cling to like Ollie North to a flag, or Michael Moore to a half rack, a pot of cobbed corn, and a sheet of corn bread?<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney\u00a0said<\/a> yesterday that the Obama administration has pulled the nation from the depths of the “Great Recession” with the creation of 7.2 million private sector jobs.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Here’s what Mr. Carney didn’t say:<\/p>\n

Since February of 2009, the first full month of Obama’s presidency,\u00a09.5 million<\/a> Americans have dropped out of the labor force.\u00a0 Nearly 90 million Americans are\u00a0not<\/i> working today!<\/p>\n

That means that 1.3 Americans have dropped out of the labor force for every one job the administration claims to have created.<\/p>\n

There are 15 million\u00a0more<\/i> Americans on food stamps today than when Obama assumed office.<\/p>\n

At the end of January 2009,\u00a032,204,859<\/a> Americans received aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.\u00a0As of April 2013, there were\u00a047,548,694<\/a> Americans on food stamps.<\/p>\n

That means that more than two Americans have been added to the food stamp rolls for every one job the administration says it has created.<\/p>\n

Under Obama, 1.6 million\u00a0more<\/i> Americans are collecting disability insurance. In February 2009, 9,334,369 Americans received disability payments. \u00a0Today, that number is\u00a010,953,733<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, as noted economist Nancy Pelosi would likely remind these backward-looking supply-siders, with their reactionary anti-tax, anti-welfare dogma, is that when 1.6 million new<\/em> Americans are collecting disability insurance, that’s 1.6 million new Americans who are spending that money, which in turn creates growth and helps the private sector grow.\u00a0 And all the government, who has made this boom in capital into the marketplace possible, asks in return is higher taxes, higher regulatory costs, higher food and gas prices, higher electricity prices, higher clothing prices, and a centralized administrative state waiting to give 11-20 erstwhile pre-Americans the same kinds of welfare and unemployment benefits that infuse cash into the economy and create the kind of strong growth we’ve seen over, like, 5-straight summers of recovery.<\/p>\n

God. It’s like these conservative morons never learned basic math.<\/p>\n

Forward<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which, if I understand Pelosi math, means that all that food stamp usage is actually growing the economy, forcing funds into the private sector, while all the job growth is just gravy, creating as it does new tax payers to fund the food stamp programs that infuse the economy with capital! The logic is unassailable: more money into the economy = good. More jobs = more taxpayers x higher tax<\/p>\n

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