Apparently there is now yet another rather bizarre milestone to which Barry can now lay claim. This one has to do with the fact that the number of people who now participate in the food stamp program actually outnumbers the number of women who worked full-time, year-round, in the United States in 2012, at least according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau. Personally I’m not sure what I find as being more disturbing, that we have that few number of women working full-time, or that many Americans on food stamps.
In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of Agriculture, there were 46,609,000 people participating in the food stamp program, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. That contrasts with the 44,059,000 women who worked full-time, year-round in 2012, according to the Census Bureau’s report on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States. For each woman who worked full-time, year-round in 2012, there was slightly more than 1 other person who was collecting food stamps.
In 2013, the average number of people on food stamps increased to 47,636,000. The Department of Agriculture’s website lists the annual average number of food stamps participants going back to 1969. That year, there were only 2,878,000 people on food stamps. Since then, food stamps participants have increased by 44,758,000—or about 1,552 percent. In 1969, there were 15,678,000 women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States. Through 2012, their numbers had increased by 28,381,000—or about 181 percent.
Since 1969, there have been three years when the number of Americans taking food stamps outnumbered the women who worked full time, year-round. In 1976, there were 18,549,000 food stamps participants, and only 18,372,000 women working full-time. Then, in 2011, there were 44,709,000 food stamp participants and 43,702,000 women who worked full-time. So far, 2011 and 2012 are the only back-to-back years on record when the number of Americans taking food stamps outnumbered the women working full-time year-round.
And so it is then, that as we continue on our little sleigh-ride to Hell that is the Barry presidency, we also continue our venturing ever further into what is, for the most part, pretty much virgin territory for this country. So-called because the scale and the speed with which the implementation of socialist policies has been taking place over the course of the last five years, has never before been attempted in this country. Not since LBJ’s "Great Society" has there been such a concerted effort to get as many citizens as possible so completely dependent on government.
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