so please stay off of my back
Or I will attack
And you don't want that
--Snap
Recipients of foodstamps hit another all time high in August at 47.1 million Americans. The Aug increase (+421) was the highest in one year.
Wonder how many among these 47.1 million indicate that their situation is better today than four yrs ago...
As noted by ZH, the monthly data were released more than a week past the usual release time. Convenient, of course, with the election this past Tues.
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What percent of 47.1 million voted for the incumbent?
Really? You think this is a conspiracy? Like maybe those people don't know they're on food stamps? Believe it or not, lots of people in this country don't blame all their woes on the government.
Really? You think this is a conspiracy? Like maybe those people don't know they're on food stamps? Believe it or not, lots of people in this country don't blame all their woes on the government.
By the way, the 47% who pay know federal income tax tend to be in southern states. Those are the states that voted overwhelmingly for Romney. How does that fit into a cynical theory about us lazy dependent liberals?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/where-do-the-47-percent-live/
SNAP data usually released around 1st day of month. Another all time food stamp high, largest % change in a yr did not fit pre-election narrative that economy getting better. Still doesn't...
I don't really see people feeling like they've been duped. There was no pre-election narrative that the economy was hunky dory - the narrative was that it is still bad but trickle down economics will put us straight back to where we started. What some on the right refuse to acknowledge is that exit polls show that unfunded wars and tax cuts caused our current economic crisis, not food stamps or President Obama.
Again, to Don's point, a large number of the the 47% live in the south, which voted for Romney.
Wasn't paying attention to my point - I was talking to the family at the same time. My sentence about exit polls should have said that they showed people blamed economic problems on...
It continues to crack me up that the people who most want to be liberated from the "tyranny" of government are the first ones to assign blame to the government for everything that doesn't go their way. Jon Stewart says again and again... the narrative is that if you are a success, you build that and created it on your own. If you fail, then it's the government's fault.
Seeds of current economic probs planted far back. Many admins have watered the weeds. Reciting party narrative of 'unfunded wars and tax cuts' as 'the' cause, and ignoring escalation of prob under this admin, suggests more study of economic principles to avoid being duped yourself.
I agree it's long in the making and I think that's exactly the point I made about trickle down Reaganomics. The idea that three million votes would have been changed if only some food stamp information had been shared before the election is what I'm taking issue with here. That, and the idea that the current administration deliberate manipulated their release. I really think that people who are unhappy with the results of this election need to spend time looking within, rather than trying to find reasons to blame the winners. As I know you remember, I felt a similar defensiveness when Bush was elected. Lots of people still complain about those elections being stolen, but many more looked for someone to lead in a new direction, which is how Obama rose through the ranks so quickly. The GOP would be much better served by soul-searching rather than finger pointing. Seriously, if they continue with conspiracies and with denigrating large swaths of the citizens in this country, they won't see the inside of the white house for at least a generation. The GOP has painted itself into a shrinking corner.
And the fact is that the GOP claimed that Obama is fully responsible for our current economy and wanted to double down on tax cuts. The voters rejected that.
Am no defender of GOP other than they are currently positioned slightly less statist than Dems. GOP realizing that this puts it at disadvantage--when people want to vote themselves loot, why vote for statist lite when you can vote for real thing? So GOP will likely chase Dems in race for ever larger govt. Thus, we continue down the path toward pure socialism, altho achieving that endpt unlikely before system collapses into chaos.
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