It seems clear that Newt Gingrich's description of Barack Obama as the "Food Stamp" president has gotten under Obama's skin. Yesterday, Obama said in an interview that he was not the food stamp president. Here is Obama's reasoning:
"First of all, I don't put people on food stamps. People become eligible for food stamps. Second of all, the initial expansion of food-stamp eligibility happened under my Republican predecessor, not under me. Number three, when you have a disastrous economic crash that results in 8 million people losing their jobs, more people are going to need more support from government."
Funny, isn't it, when Obama intentionally "misunderstands" the point. No one disputes that food stamps are more necessary in bad economic times and that Obama did not personally go out and sign people up for food stamps. The point is that after more than three years in office, Obama has not done anything that has restored growth to the American economy. Unemployment is way higher than it should be this long after a recession. Growth in 2011 was only 1.7% according to the Obama administration's own figures. Obama promised to make things better; he only made them worse. As a result millions of people are on food stamps rather than working in the USA.
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