President Obama Sets New Food Stamp Record

You find this funny, Barack?

Washington DC, May 31, 2011. Despite the fact that the White House told us that the recession ended in 2009, and we had a "recovery summer" in 2010, there are a record number of Americans using foodstamps in 2011.

During the tenure of President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya, food stamp usage by Americans has risen from almost 32 million when he took office in Jan 2009 to almost 45 million at the end of Mar 2011.

That is roughly a 40% increase in food stamp use in just the past two years.

Moreover, the expense of this program has soared from $3.6 billion per month to almost $6 billion a month, which represents a 65% increase.

The EBT card

President Obama has also given us the highest poverty rate in more than 50 years, currently around 15% of our population. The last time our poverty rate was this high was 1959.

All this while the White House is telling us that the recession is over, and the recovery is in full swing. It is pretty clear that someone is lying about "recovery" and "jobs saved" and "my plan worked!"

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
(Data as of May 27, 2011)
Fiscal	PARTICIPATION		BENEFIT	AVERAGE MONTHLY BENEFIT
Year	Persons	Households	COSTS	Per Person	Per Household
ANNUAL SUMMARY
FY 2010	40,301,666	18,618,363	64,704,559,245	133.79	289.61
FY 2009	33,489,975	15,232,115	50,359,917,015	125.31	275.51
FY 2008	28,222,630	12,727,450	34,608,397,238	102.19	226.60
MONTHLY DATA
FY 2008
Oct 2007	27,007,059	12,147,478	2,763,946,525	102.34	227.53
Nov 2007	27,153,727	12,208,064	2,766,370,199	101.88	226.60
Dec 2007	27,385,524	12,312,552	2,789,090,515	101.85	226.52
Jan 2008	27,580,481	12,431,141	2,778,842,340	100.75	223.54
Feb 2008	27,547,495	12,435,938	2,779,283,488	100.89	223.49
Mar 2008	27,770,417	12,546,256	2,814,003,256	101.33	224.29
Apr 2008	27,967,760	12,641,595	2,838,248,777	101.48	224.52
May 2008	28,244,913	12,762,569	2,871,358,394	101.66	224.98
Jun 2008	28,509,720	12,886,157	2,900,078,521	101.72	225.05
Jul 2008	28,862,959	13,052,852	2,957,149,326	102.45	226.55
Aug 2008	29,258,947	13,219,213	2,984,537,425	102.00	225.77
Sep 2008	31,382,561	14,085,583	3,365,488,472	107.24	238.93
FY 2009
Oct 2008	30,841,790	13,900,815	3,697,627,592	119.89	266.00
Nov 2008	30,884,729	13,963,078	3,561,221,137	115.31	255.05
Dec 2008	31,567,037	14,284,026	3,648,865,577	115.59	255.45
Jan 2009	31,983,716	14,499,693	3,633,188,682	113.60	250.57
Feb 2009	32,332,622	14,677,736	3,703,673,185	114.55	252.33
Mar 2009	32,928,433	14,982,155	3,776,012,112	114.67	252.03
Apr 2009	33,524,074	15,269,505	4,499,580,155	134.22	294.68
May 2009	34,171,518	15,578,702	4,596,450,757	134.51	295.05
Jun 2009	34,882,031	15,916,305	4,675,320,239	134.03	293.74
Jul 2009	35,602,939	16,259,749	4,779,752,451	134.25	293.96
Aug 2009	36,241,857	16,560,753	4,851,752,501	133.87	292.97
Sep 2009	36,918,948	16,892,857	4,936,472,627	133.71	292.22
FY 2010
Oct 2009	37,672,818	17,253,466	5,070,842,158	134.60	293.90
Nov 2009	38,183,998	17,516,853	5,107,135,932	133.75	291.56
Dec 2009	38,978,986	17,886,338	5,244,898,952	134.56	293.23
Jan 2010	39,430,990	18,117,955	5,253,958,400	133.24	289.99
Feb 2010	39,588,798	18,242,836	5,287,836,749	133.57	289.86
Mar 2010	40,120,061	18,531,999	5,375,721,434	133.99	290.08
Apr 2010	40,430,508	18,696,426	5,390,405,728	133.33	288.31
May 2010	40,801,375	18,894,473	5,450,290,971	133.58	288.46
Jun 2010	41,275,457	19,143,488	5,503,801,482	133.34	287.50
Jul 2010	41,836,240	19,435,378	5,601,253,390	133.89	288.20
Aug 2010	42,389,614	19,721,843	5,677,210,696	133.93	287.86
Sep 2010	42,911,141	19,979,296	5,741,203,353	133.79	287.36
FY 2011
Oct 2010	43,200,837	20,183,107	5,778,377,811	133.76	286.30
Nov 2010	43,595,821	20,404,804	5,811,261,526	133.30	284.80
Dec 2010	44,082,361	20,668,184	5,890,121,141	133.62	284.98
Jan 2011	44,187,874	20,748,799	5,868,434,271	132.81	282.83
Feb 2011	44,199,479	20,791,408	5,889,248,221	133.24	283.25
Mar 2011	44,587,328	21,045,962	5,984,186,682	134.21	284.34
Data for Oct. 2008 include major hurricane disaster assistance.
FY 2010-2011 data are preliminary; all data are subject to revision.