{"id":2556,"date":"2011-06-02T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:00:39","slug":"obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Recession … FOOD STAMP PROGRAM UNDER OBAMA…GREW BY 39%…."},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

WATCHWOMAN ALERT:<\/strong><\/span> Redistribution of wealth, which is pure communism, has never worked. \u00a0It is not working here in the U.S.A. and\u00a0Democrats, who are\u00a0socialistic\u00a0communists by nature just won’t wake up! \u00a0They keep doing more and more of it and it is not helping. \u00a0Poverty only gets worse and worse. \u00a0Communism has failed every place and every time it has ever been tried! \u00a0Read on… \u00a0\u25ac Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"FOOD STAMP PROGRAM UNDER OBAMA….. GREW BY 39%…. 21 MILLION AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS OR 14%<\/h1>\n


\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Congress Mulls Cuts to Food Stamps Program Amid Record Number of Recipients<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
ABC News’ Huma Khan reports: Congress is under pressure to cut the rapidly rising costs of the federal government\u2019s food stamps program at a time when a record number of Americans are relying on it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The House Appropriations Committee today will review the fiscal year\u00a02012 appropriations bill for the Department of Agriculture<\/a> that includes $71 billion for the agency\u2019s \u201cSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.\u201d That\u2019s $2 billion less than what President Obama requested but a 9 percent increase from 2011, which, critics say, is too large given the sizeable budget deficit.<\/p>\n

A record number of Americans — about 14 percent — now rely on the federal government\u2019s food stamps program and its rapid expansion in recent years has become a politically explosive topic.<\/p>\n

More than 44.5 million Americans received\u00a0SNAP benefits in March<\/a>, an 11 percent increase from one year ago and nearly\u00a061 percent higher than the same time four years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nearly 21 million households are reliant on food stamps.<\/p>\n

\"\"Opponents of the program argue that money from the food stamps budget — with what they call its increasingly lax requirements — needs to be shifted to other programs such as education and child nutrition. The program\u2019s supporters argue that at a time of economic decline, such welfare programs are even more important to try to keep Americans from spiraling into poverty.<\/p>\n

The cost of the food stamps program has increased rapidly since it was established by Congress in 1964.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0cost taxpayers<\/a> more than $68 billion last year, double the amount in 2007.<\/p>\n

Nutrition assistance now accounts for more than half — or about 67 percent — of the USDA\u2019s budget, <\/span>compared with 26 percent in 1980. That shift in focus, critics say, is ineffective because it hasn\u2019t put a dent in poverty or hunger in the United States<\/span> while taking away money from other programs, specifically agricultural programs that should be the main focus of the agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even \u201cat a time of prosperity, we have increased the amount of money we are spending for people to buy food,\u201d said Harold Brown, an agriculture scientist and adjunct scholar at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. \u201cThe appropriation of money by Congress has never solved poverty or the resulting problems of poverty<\/span>. When President Johnson declared war on poverty a half century ago nearly, we thought we saw the end of it as far as food and nutrition goes. For the Department of Agriculture, we only saw the beginning.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Republicans\u2019 2012 budget plan proposes changing SNAP from an entitlement to a block-grant program that would be tailored for each individual state, much like their proposal for Medicaid. States would no longer receive open-ended subsidies and the aid would be contingent on work or job training. It would also limit funding for the program.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s 2012 budget, however, goes in a completely opposite direction. It aims to make requirements less stringent by temporarily suspending for one year the time limit for certain age groups without dependents. The president also suggested restoring benefit cuts that were included in the Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
Posted by <\/a>TONY SALAZAR, SC DIST.#5 COORD;<\/a> on May 31, 2011 at 9:24pm in <\/a>General, Town Hall<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n

Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2011\/05\/congress-mulls-cuts-to-foo…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WATCHWOMAN ALERT: Redistribution of wealth, which is pure communism, has never worked. \u00a0It is not working here in the U.S.A. and\u00a0Democrats, who are\u00a0socialistic\u00a0communists by nature just won’t wake up! \u00a0They keep doing more and more of it and it is not helping. \u00a0Poverty only gets worse and worse. \u00a0Communism has failed every place and every…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,1121,35,176],"tags":[9359,1123,548,1119,1120,1122],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-failed-policies","category-obama","category-recession","tag-communism","tag-failure","tag-food-stamps","tag-obamas-recession","tag-poverty-grows","tag-war-on-poverty"],"yoast_head":"\nObama's Recession ... FOOD STAMP PROGRAM UNDER OBAMA...GREW BY 39%.... - Watchwoman on the Wall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama's Recession ... FOOD STAMP PROGRAM UNDER OBAMA...GREW BY 39%.... - Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WATCHWOMAN ALERT: Redistribution of wealth, which is pure communism, has never worked. \u00a0It is not working here in the U.S.A. and\u00a0Democrats, who are\u00a0socialistic\u00a0communists by nature just won’t wake up! \u00a0They keep doing more and more of it and it is not helping. \u00a0Poverty only gets worse and worse. \u00a0Communism has failed every place and every…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-02T19:00:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/photos3.fotosearch.com\/bthumb\/FSA\/FSA651\/x26470845.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Donna Calvin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Obama's Recession ... FOOD STAMP PROGRAM UNDER OBAMA...GREW BY 39%.... - Watchwoman on the Wall","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Obama's Recession ... FOOD STAMP PROGRAM UNDER OBAMA...GREW BY 39%.... - Watchwoman on the Wall","og_description":"WATCHWOMAN ALERT: Redistribution of wealth, which is pure communism, has never worked. \u00a0It is not working here in the U.S.A. and\u00a0Democrats, who are\u00a0socialistic\u00a0communists by nature just won’t wake up! \u00a0They keep doing more and more of it and it is not helping. \u00a0Poverty only gets worse and worse. \u00a0Communism has failed every place and every…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html","og_site_name":"Watchwoman on the Wall","article_published_time":"2011-06-02T19:00:39+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/photos3.fotosearch.com\/bthumb\/FSA\/FSA651\/x26470845.jpg"}],"author":"Donna Calvin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html","name":"Obama's Recession ... FOOD STAMP PROGRAM UNDER OBAMA...GREW BY 39%.... - Watchwoman on the Wall","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/photos3.fotosearch.com\/bthumb\/FSA\/FSA651\/x26470845.jpg","datePublished":"2011-06-02T19:00:39+00:00","dateModified":"2011-06-02T19:00:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/#\/schema\/person\/1470e1ef6765f8a27f970307b0835df1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/photos3.fotosearch.com\/bthumb\/FSA\/FSA651\/x26470845.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/photos3.fotosearch.com\/bthumb\/FSA\/FSA651\/x26470845.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/obamas-recession-food-stamp-program-under-obama-grew-by-39.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Obama’s Recession … FOOD STAMP PROGRAM UNDER OBAMA…GREW BY 39%…."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/","name":"Watchwoman on the Wall","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Donna Calvin","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/#\/schema\/person\/1470e1ef6765f8a27f970307b0835df1","name":"Donna Calvin","description":"In sixth grade my teacher told us that we were going to be the first generation to see the year 2000 and all things would be different. He continued that God wasn't important, wasn't real, and our parents just used God to impose restrictions on us because they were inadequate to parent effectively. I knew then I was going to be involved in a war and that I would have to be in Jesus Christ's Army. Even then, I knew the United States of America would cease to exist without the vast majority of its citizens voluntarily submitting to the Perfect and Good Laws of the Holy Bible. I am a woman who loves the Lord Jesus Christ. I am tired of seeing our LORD denigrated from the school house to the White House. I search the Internet for items that ought to serve as a warning to Americans and Christians all through America, but the nation seems to be sleeping. Wake up America! You are losing your freedoms, your children and your country. Wake up and help stop it!","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/author\/dcalvin"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}