Well it would seem that Barry "Almighty" has been a very busy, and also quite successful, fellow as he has gone about implementing his radical plan to "fundamentally transform" that which was once the most prosperous nation on the planet. Because over the course of what has been his rather disastrous presidency, he has managed to put into place all manner of policies that actually serve to encourage people to become less self-sufficient and more dependent upon government. Policies that make the point that there exists for anyone who so chooses a RIGHT to live off the government and, therefore by proxy, those of us who still work and pay taxes.
One example that makes very plain the level of success Barry has been able to achieve, is the fact that we now have a record 20% of all American households, or one in five, now being on food stamps in 2013. The numbers also show there was a record number of individuals who were on food stamps in 2013 and that the cost of the program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), was at an all-time high. The USDA says that there were 23,052,388 households on food stamps in the average month of fiscal year 2013, which is an increase of 722,675 from fiscal year 2012, when there were 22,329,713 households on food stamps in the average month.
In 2013, according to the Census Bureau, there were 115,013,000 households here in the U.S., which means that the households on food stamps, those 23,052,388 households, equaled 20.0% of all households. It’s been in the past five years alone, that the number of households on food stamps has literally skyrocketed. In fiscal year 2009, or Oct. 1, 2008 through Sept. 30, 2009, the total number of households on food stamps was 15,232,115. Just five years later, in 2013, that amount had increased by a staggering 51.3% to reach that total of 23,052,388 households now on food stamps. Quite an achievement for our "Food Stamp President."
But it’s not just in households where we have seen a major increase in food stamps’ participation, but so too has then number of individuals increased pretty dramatically. In 2013, the monthly average for individuals on food stamps hit an all-time-high of 47,636,084, according to the USDA, an increase of 1,027,012 over the 46,609,072 individuals who were participating in the program in 2012. That number has also rather dramatically increased from just five years ago. In fiscal year 2009, the number of individuals participating in the food stamp program was 33,489,975. In 2013, the number was 47,636,084, an increase of 42.2%.
And, as was mentioned earlier, the cost of food stamps, or the program referred to as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has reached an all-time high. For fiscal year 2013, the SNAP program cost $79,641,880,000, which is a 164% increase over just the past decade. When adjusted for inflation, the cost of the SNAP program was $30,153,090,000 in fiscal year 2003. During the last five years, the SNAP program has grown by 36.8%, from $58,223,790,000 in 2009 to $79,641,880,000 in 2013. So we’re now spending nearly $80 Billion to feed what has now become 20 percent of American households.
Now is anyone, other than me, seeing what might be called a common thread here? I mean, it should be relatively easy to identify, after all there has been a clue repeatedly mentioned. That clue being, of course, that these rather dramatic increases all took place over the course of the last five years. Now let me see, the last five years. What occurred five years ago that might have resulted in all of these people suddenly being convinced that living off the is a good idea? Oh, wait a minute, I know! It was five years ago that Barry "Almighty" began his first term as president, and the era of "Hope and Change" got under way.
Well that certainly hasn’t panned out too well. After five long years, and as many presidential scandals, along with the fact that we now have 10 million fewer people in the workforce, 100 million now on some form of government ‘assistance’ and over 11 million now collecting a federal disability check, this "Hope and Change" thing hasn’t turned out so good. But then I doubt it was ever really intended to. I think the game plan, all along, has been to implement the most radical of agendas and to work toward forever changing what it is that America has always represented to people all across the globe. And sadly, those working toward that end have been very successful.
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