The Food Stamp President Wants You!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Obama Administration Offers $75,000 Grants to Sign Up More Food Stamp Recipients

Over the last three years, the number of Americans on food stamps has skyrocketed by two-thirds and stands at a record-high 46 million citizens, or one out of every seven people in the United States. Despite the historic rise in food stamp use, however, the Obama Administration believes not enough people are receiving food stamps who should be and is offering $75,000 grants to groups who devise “effective strategies” to “increase program participation” among those who have yet to sign up.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website singles out Hispanics and elderly Americans as groups who often fail to enroll in the food stamp program (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and says that one of the contributing factors that must be overcome to get more people to sign up for SNAP benefits is individual “pride”.

To reduce these “barriers” to food stamp enrollment, the Department of Agriculture offers non-profit groups the chance to receive $75,000 grants for projects designed to boost food stamp participation among those who are eligible but have yet to sign up. The Department of Agriculture believes that the SNAP program is “severely underutilized” and says that 33 percent more Americans who are eligible to receive food stamps have yet to apply, thus the need to offer federal grants to sign more citizens up.

http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/01/29/obama-administration-offers-75000-grants-to-sign-up-more-food-stamp-recipients/

[웃 910]

What a legacy The Bush left. Inherited $20 billion in food stamps and passed Obama $60 billion. An increase of 3X!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

What a legacy The Bush left. Inherited $20 billion in food stamps and passed Obama $60 billion. An increase of 3X!

That's not the message Breitbart wanted to convey.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

That's not the message Breitbart wanted to convey.

Wynton Hall

Wynton Hall is the owner of Wynton Hall & Co., a ghostwriting agency responsible for numerous New York Times bestselling books. The author or ghostwriter of 16 books, Hall’s published work has appeared in virtually every major periodical in America, including: the New York Times, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Politico, and numerous others. Hall is a former member of the eight-person National Task Force on the Presidency and Public Opinion and a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

http://biggovernment.com/author/whall

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It's Andy's blog, Sherlock. The piece wouldn't be there w/o him wanting it to be there. And the message he wants to convey is not that the last Republican President with the help of a Republican Congress for most of his two terms has made this government program bigger by some 300%. You know that Andy would rather gloss over that inconvenient little - well, not so little - detail however true it may be.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

It's Andy's blog, Sherlock. The piece wouldn't be there w/o him wanting it to be there. And the message he wants to convey is not that the last Republican President with the help of a Republican Congress for most of his two terms has made this government program bigger by some 300% 200%. You know that Andy would rather gloss over that inconvenient little - well, not so little - detail however true it may be.

Carry on.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Carry on.

Yes, 200%. That makes it better?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Food Stamps create jobs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVPlBd0d2is

BTW, one of the reasons California is "Under performing" is because of other resources available. There is so much "free" food available for those that want it, they often turn around and sell it for cash in sidewalk stalls, just down the street from the food banks.

I love seeing some obese homeless guy panhandling for food money, while chomping on a microwave burrito.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Yes, 200%. That makes it better?

No. Bush was a spendthrift.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

No. Bush was a spendthrift.

Well, he had a Republican Congress for most of his Presidency. It's fair to say that the Republicans quite readily opened the purse for him.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

That's not the message Breitbart wanted to convey.

Pesky facts always screw up great RWN points.

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[jkelly07 120]

because there are more people out of work.thanks to bush,there unemployment ran out so now obama is trying to help feed those that need to eat,you never know when you mite need food stamps,don;t knock it.your job is not guaranteed.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

because there are more people out of work.thanks to bush,there unemployment ran out so now obama is trying to help feed those that need to eat,you never know when you mite need food stamps,don;t knock it.your job is not guaranteed.

you should go back to the upper forums and leave the politics to those who understand factual information (well, many of us do anyway). You do realize that the "problems" of the "great recession" had nothing to do with Bush, right? The makings for the great recession started taking shape 25-30 years prior and ended with the Clinton administration.

The only thing Bush is guilty of is not vetoing any dumb ####### spending until 2007 when the Democrats took back over.

[slim 1,530]

your job is not guaranteed.

What does losing your job have to do with food stamps?

That's the whole problem. People live beyond their means and then when something like a job loss happens, they act like we owe them. "Well, somebody gotta pay for this?"