No. Why can't anyone see what Obama did?
They are cutting the people they deliberately increased on food stamps in time for the 2012 election. This is from a 2011 post of mine.
Obama is The Food Stamp President not just that a poor economy is causing it. This comes from Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, in his own words on Morning Joe back in August 2011.
"U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack backed a White House claim that food stamps, which the Department of Agriculture administers, actually constitute a stimulus program, describing it as 'the most direct stimulus you can get into the economy during these tough times.' 'The reason the number of recipients has increased is that the federal government has been working more closely with local governments to get more Americans on food stamps,' Vilsack said."
Ag Secretary Vilsack: Food Stamps Stimulate Jobs
What Vilsack and the Obama administration is really doing is making more people dependent on the federal dole to stimulate Democrat voting.
And this is from the article cited in your original post:
"According to CBO, in the years ahead the share of the population that participates in SNAP will fall back to 2008 levels."
House Agriculture Committee Farm Bill Would Throw 2 to 3 Million People Off of SNAP — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
So to sum it up, put a whole bunch of additional people on food stamp rolls so they vote Democrat to keep their freebies, then cut the same number of people off the food stamp rolls to make it look like you are cutting spending and that it happens AFTER Election Day. Once you are in for your second term, you don't care and if a Republican President is in office, they'll take it out on him when they vote down the road. Do you really think when those people are dropped from food stamps they or the news media will remember that it happened under Obama? It's the same with Obamacare and all of the crappy parts of Obamacare kicking in after Election 2012 is over.
And the news media just rolls over and plays dead.
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