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The number of enrollee's is lowering and the number of benefits paid out is lower with CBO projections indicating they will be lower each year. I'm sorry if you don't like the numbers, but they are what they are. I'm not a big fan of MoJo either, but shooting the source simply because you don't like it doesn't consistute a valid argument.
realy now???
By 2038, CBO projects, federal spending would increase to 26 percent of GDP under the assumptions of the extended baseline, compared with 22 percent in 2012 and an average of 20½ percent over the past 40 years. That increase reflects the following projected paths for various types of federal spending if current laws generally remain in place (see the figure below):
* Federal spending for the major health care programs and Social Security would increase to a total of 14 percent of GDP by 2038, twice the 7 percent average of the past 40 years.
* The federal government’s net interest payments would grow to 5 percent of GDP, compared with an average of 2 percent over the past 40 years, mainly because federal debt would be much larger.
Despite incessant conjecture from the hard right about how programs designed to help the less fortunate eat and stay out of abject poverty are bankrupting the economy, the SNAP program's balance sheets are beginning to balance themselves because the economy is heading in the right direction. Primarily because of economic recovery, the food stamp beneifts are predicted to return to levels seen in 1995. Balancing the budget on the backs of the impoverished is never the right thing to do, and I for one and happy to see the SNAP enrollment lowering because of economic growth instead of blind cuts.
Last full year before recession, last full current year. I know you dont like the facts but your original post was full of road apples.
Exactly! The HEIGHT of a bubble. 2007 was the highest year for tax receipts as a percentage of GDP ever recorded...........VS a recovering economy like we currently have.
You're comparing a Ferrari to a Camry.....God, you make it too easy.
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Despite incessant conjecture from the hard right about how programs designed to help the less fortunate eat and stay out of abject poverty are bankrupting the economy, the SNAP program's balance sheets are beginning to balance themselves because the economy is heading in the right direction. Primarily because of economic recovery, the food stamp beneifts are predicted to return to levels seen in 1995. Balancing the budget on the backs of the impoverished is never the right thing to do, and I for one and happy to see the SNAP enrollment lowering because of economic growth instead of blind cuts.
Exactly! The HEIGHT of a bubble. 2007 was the highest year for tax receipts as a percentage of GDP ever recorded...........VS a recovering economy like we currently have.
You're comparing a Ferrari to a Camry.....God, you make it too easy.
What kind of gobbledy **** are spouting. LOL
Sorry, you need a class on comparative statistical analysis.
Sorta reminds me of those "unemployment" numbers we were getting last year right before the elections - the numbers we finally discovered were manipulated for political gain.
This is a typical conservative response when they don't like the basis of the article.
The source got discredited because what the "source" says is literally impossible but yet here we are trying to help that sink in to many here. You can't have less people working and more receiving and costs leveling out. It is just IMPOSSIBLE!
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