Another Obama Record for the Food Stamp President … Food Stamps Usage Rises to 47.7 Million Participants & 22,973,698 Households in September 2012

They don’t call Barack Obama the Food Stamp President for nothing …

Welcome to the new normal under President Barack Obama.  Newly released data show that participation in Food Stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, has reached yet another all time high in September 2012. Thanks Barack Obama. Food Stamp participation increased in September alone by 607,559. The number of households enrolled in the program also increased in September by 289,235. You reelected him America, expect more of the same for the next four years.

Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, reached another high in September, according to new data released by the United Stated Department of Agriculture.

The most recent data on SNAP participation were released Friday, and showed that 47,710,324 people were enrolled in the program in September, an increase of 607,559 from the 47,102,765 enrolled in August.

The number of households enrolled in the program also increased from 22,684,463 in August to 22,973,698 in September, an increase of 289,235. The average benefit, according to the new data, was $134.29 per person and $278.89 per household.

Oh yea, the economy is getting much better now isn’t it?

An Obama Christmas … Salvation Army Seeing Record Number Of Families In Need During Holiday Season

President Barack Obama … The Grinch Who Stole More than Christmas.

The Salvation Army are seeing record number of families asking for help this Christmas season. But what else would one expect when a record number of Americans are on food stamps and an employment participation rate at a dismal 63.6%. Obama and Democrats continue to tour the faux-unemployment rate of 7.7%. More and more Americans are dropping out of the work force, including 350,000 in November alone. All this while Obama claims there is a job recovery without any recovery. Obama and Democrats can spin the economic numbers and situation all they want, Americans know the truth and their circumstances are bleak. At some point Americans will wake up and realize that GWB is not to blame and Obama is. When that occurs there will be hell to pay by Democrats.

Officials with the Salvation Army say they’re seeing a record number of families asking for help this holiday season.

Nearly 18,000 families have registered for Christmas assistance in the last month. That number has grown by 2,500 since last year, breaking the 2009 record.

The Salvation Army official web site.

With all this suffering going on in the US and we have liberals that are more concerned with their liberal ideology than helping those who are in need. This clearly is a mental defect of liberals and shows just how little they care about those who are in desperate need. Their hate so consumes them that they would rather harm the people who are aided by The Salvation Army because of their liberal political ideology. This was never more evident than the screwballs at UC Berkeley who are calling for students on campus to ban the Salvation Army citing their alleged homophobic practices. But these liberal college kids would be the first to be looking for a government hand out at tax payers expense.

Barack Obama has not just stole Christmas, he has stole our children and grand children’s future with the unsustainable debt.

Welfare Spending = $168 Per Day for Every Household in Poverty … $137 Median Income Per Day

We have reached a tipping point, welfare spending now more than medium income …  what has happened to our country? America, do you still remember what the word pride means?

As reported at the Weekly Standard, the amount of money spent on welfare programs equals, when converted to cash payments, about “$168 per day for every household in poverty.”  Welfare spending per day per household in poverty is $168, as opposed to the median income per day is only $137. Can you say unsustainable? People are going to begin to say, why work? And that is exactly how you crate a socialist society. At some point this has got to stop. For all the welfare spending, it has accomplished nothing except to create a dependent welfare class of people whose vote can be bought and the loss of liberty and self-respect.

According to the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee, welfare spending per day per household in poverty is $168, which is higher than the $137 median income per day. When broken down per hour, welfare spending per hour per household in poverty is $30.60, which is higher than the $25.03 median income per hour.

“Based on data from the Congressional Research Service, cumulative spending on means-tested federal welfare programs, if converted into cash, would equal $167.65 per day per household living below the poverty level,” writes the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee. “By comparison, the median household income in 2011 of $50,054 equals $137.13 per day. Additionally, spending on federal welfare benefits, if converted into cash payments, equals enough to provide $30.60 per hour, 40 hours per week, to each household living below poverty. The median household hourly wage is $25.03. After accounting for federal taxes, the median hourly wage drops to between $21.50 and $23.45, depending on a household’s deductions and filing status. State and local taxes further reduce the median household’s hourly earnings. By contrast, welfare benefits are not taxed.”

Sadly, Doug Ross may have best summed up this disastrous overspending on the welfare state, “We are headed for fiscal collapse — and the welfare state keeps growing like a cancer, incentivizing sloth, formalizing a culture of dependency, and killing self-sufficiency.”

Just curious America, do you even care anyone about your country, why it was founded for Liberty?

The Great Obama Unemployment Lie: Unemployment Rate Drops to 7.7% for November 2012 … Lose 350,000 from Labor Force & 73% of Civilian Jobs Created in the Past 5 Months Were Government Jobs

WHAT A JOKE … THE GREAT OBAMA LIE THAT THERE IS MOMENTUM IN THE JOB MARKET, JOB GROWTH AND THAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS GOING DOWN.

Yesterday it was reported that the unemployment rate for November 2012 dropped to 7.7%. Wow, great news right? More people must be getting jobs, so then the job market must be getting stronger. NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND. Although the unemployment rate went from 7.9% to 7.7% in November, a mere 146,000 jobs were created. It is exactly this government lie that the economy is supposedly getting better that is the cover for Obama to raise taxes. Every business,  struggling family and out of work individual knows the economy is not getting better. But the fabricated numbers put forth perpetrate the Obama lie that things improving. Everyone knows that it is economic suicide to increase taxes during a recession or struggling economy, so what do you think is going to happen when taxes are raised during this so-called job growth economy?

I can’t believe Americans are buying my BS, fooling these people was easier than I thought

CNBS Video: Rick Santelli: ‘They Love to Fib About Statistics’

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 4.8 million in November. These individuals accounted for 40.1 percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.)

The civilian labor force participation rate declined by 0.2 percentage point to 63.6 percent in November, offsetting an increase of the same amount in October. Total employment was about unchanged in November, following a combined increase of 1.3 million over the prior 2 months. The employment-population ratio, at 58.7 percent, changed little in November. (See table A-1.)

So how does the rate tick down so much with so few jobs created? The unemployment rate did not go down because there is job growth, it went down due to workers leaving the work force. As reported at the Heritage Foundation, The labor force declined by 350,000 and the labor force participation rate declined to 63.6%. More reported at Zero Hedge with easy to to charts that show the real reason why the unemployment rate dropped  as  as the number of people out of the labor increased by over 540K to 88,883,000.

The only reason that the unemployment rate fell was because more people dropped out of the labor market than actually found jobs. The labor force declined by 350,000 and the labor force participation rate, a measure of potential workers, declined to 63.6, the same level as reported in September. The recovery is well underway, yet potential workers continue to remain on the sidelines and out of the labor market. One reason is that approximately 1.5 million more potential workers are on the disability rolls now as compared to 2007. It is doubtful that many of them will ever return to the labor force, lowering future economic growth.

Just when you thought that what little jobs that were being created was a good thing … THINK AGAIN. The key word America is “think”. As reported at CNS News, as private sector companies are laying people off in droves, 73% of civilian jobs created in the past 5 months were government jobs. What a great job recovery, one fueled by the government creating 7 in 10 jobs and John Q. Public, “We the People” having to pay their salaries. So how is this good for the economy?

In June, a total of 142,415,000 people were employed in the U.S, according to the BLS, including 19,938,000 who were employed by federal, state and local governments.

By November, according to data BLS released today, the total number of people employed had climbed to 143,262,000, an overall increase of 847,000 in the six months since June.

In the same five-month period since June, the number of people employed by government increased by 621,000 to 20,559,000. These 621,000 new government jobs created in the last five months equal 73.3 percent of the 847,000 new jobs created overall.

You elected this America. You wanted four more years of this fiasco. Maybe some of you should just keep to voting for American Idol only. I wonder how the MSM would have reported these terrible jobs numbers if a Republican had been president?

Medical Supply Company Stryker Announced they would Lay off 1,170 Workers citing the Costs associated with Obamacare.

You get what you vote for … get ready to add some more to future first time unemployment filers thank to Obama’s reelection and Obamacare.

Medical supply giant Stryker has announced that they will be laying off 1170 workers due to the costs associated with Obamacare.  Many of you in blue states appear to be getting exactly what you voted for, including those who owned businesses that would be directly harmed by Obama’s reelection and you supported him any how. The company will cut 1,170 jobs, or five percent of its worldwide workforce, despite the fact that the founder’s grandson was one of the largest contributors to President Obama’s re-election campaign. Brilliant, simply brilliant! What fool would knowingly support a president with policies that would directly harm his business and cost employees jobs?

Kalamazoo, Michigan – November 10, 2011 – Stryker Corporation (NYSE:SYK) announced its intention to implement focused workforce reductions of approximately 5% of its global workforce and other restructuring activities that are anticipated to reduce annual pre-tax operating costs by over $100 million beginning in 2013. The targeted reductions and other restructuring activities are being initiated to provide efficiencies and realign resources in advance of the new Medical Device Excise Tax scheduled to begin in 2013, as well as to allow for continued investment in strategic areas and drive growth despite the ongoing challenging economic environment and market slowdown in elective procedures. The reductions and restructuring activities are expected to be substantially complete by the end of 2012. Stryker will provide employees affected by these reductions with severance packages, counseling and job placement services.

The Company expects to record pre-tax restructuring charges related to these reductions and restructuring activities totaling approximately $150 million to $175 million, of which approximately $85 million to $95 million are expected to be recorded in the fourth quarter of 2011.

“As our markets continue to evolve, these actions are part of our ongoing focus on quality, innovation and cost, and position the Company to continue to provide strong, consistent growth in a changing environment,” said Stephen P. MacMillan, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Against this backdrop, we are committed to achieving consistent double-digit per share earnings growth in 2011 and beyond.”

You can add these unemployment numbers directly to Obama’s reelection and a company that chose ideology over its employees.