Clarence Page Tries to Make Bush 'Food Stamp President' But Numbers Don't Lie
On the Chicago Tribune's Web site today, columnist Clarence Page writes of "The umbrage card trick." Page lights into GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for assorted misdeeds, one of which is calling Barack Obama a "food stamp president":
Yet Gingrich's food stamp claim is misleading on several counts. For one, food stamp recipients increased during seven of President George W. Bush's eight years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The growth came largely because of policy changes that encouraged more participation by eligible Americans. But Gingrich is not about to let details get in the way of a chance to sound offended.
Page asserts Gingrich misleads "on several counts," but then doesn't cite them. The food stamp program, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is administered by the Department of Agriculture. According to its figures, average food stamp participation during the Bush administration was 17 million in 2001 and increased to 28 million in his last full year as president. That's certainly nothing to brag about. But during Obama's three years in office, that number skyrocketed to 44 million by last year and was more than 46 million last October.
So how is Gingrich misleading on food stamps? He's not. The awkward truth that Page and other liberals are loathe to admit is that Barack Obama is the food stamp president. After three years and trillions of dollars spent on his failed recovery schemes, the economy remains in shambles.
His cheerleaders in the mainstream media are reluctant to acknowledge that, so they do some misleading of their own.
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It is you who are misleading
Submitted by ohio granny on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 6:08pm.
Exactly what did Gingrich say that is misleading. You do not cite a single one. No matter how you try to spin it Obama is the food stamp president. There are more people, both black and white, on food stamps than ever before. Tell me again what did Gingrich say that is wrong.
Trying to protect your guy is not reason enough to lie. Obama is what he is and that is an incompetent, compulsive, serial liar. Totally unqualified and a Chicago thug.
⇒ What Page is saying
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 6:39pm.
chit: noun 1. a signed note for money owed for food, drink
Page just wants more Americans to take Obama's chit. If you're not taking chit from Obama, Page believes, you should be.
Ohio Granny
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 6:42pm.
It's the racist thing from Page. Anything said by a Republican is spun so much by the liberal media and comes out we are all racists. They have absolutely nothing else to blab about to get barry re-elected.
Poor old Clarence is just
Submitted by celator on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 6:48pm.
Poor old Clarence is just using the liberal math he learned as a child from the evil Jabberwock, a character from a poem in 'Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there." It's all he knows. Obama uses the same math, so what's all the fuss? ;+}
Page is commenting from fear.
Submitted by jkwtrading on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 6:58pm.
Page is commenting from fear. He knows damn well living in Chicago when the fed money runs out, the people who got it will be looking for more and Page is someone who has some cash.
Once again, they try to
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 8:03pm.
Once again, they try to equate 3 years to Bush's 8.
As I pointed out in the other thread, Obama is on pace to add 35 million people to the food stamp rolls if, heaven forbid, he serves two terms.
I noticed last night Obama
Submitted by jkwtrading on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 10:08pm.
I noticed last night Obama did not mention the 5 trillion he added to the debt. 1/3 of the entire debt added in 3 years. the amount of debt alone says he added the most food stamps.
Hey Clarence...
Submitted by Order270 on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 9:30pm.
...what would you rather lose $153,000 a month or $315,500 a month. After stripping the deafening ideology, money will speak for itself loud and clear.
Still not getting this guy's point...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 9:41pm.
If food stamps increased under Bush due to an easing of requirements doesn't it suggest two things? First that the GOP is compassionate and wants to help Americans. Second, that the increase under Bush in food stamp usage wasn't due to a declining economy the way it is under Obama. Is that something Obama fans want to brag about?!
Barack Obama's 'State of the Economy'
Submitted by Retired Geek on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 9:55pm.
Jan 2, 2009 Public Debt 10.6 Trillion - Jan 25, 2012 Public Debt $15,243,626,741,722 Trillion
Largest wealth destruction in American history: Net Wealth Lost 2009-2011 --$8.7 Trillion.
Average Cost of Health Care for Families - 2008 $12,860 - 2011 $15,073 (18.8% increase)
Highest sustained Unemployment in decades: 8.5%
Drop in Number of Americans Working -1,309,000 (.92% decrease) after $1.5 Trillion of government stimulus
Brutal Unemployment for minorities: Black Americans : 16.7%
Historic jump in Number of people in U.S. on Foodstamps : 45.8 Million - the highest in American History.
http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2012/01/retired-geek-barack-obamas-state-...