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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Nice misdirection tactics  
Lets me repeat my point which has nothing to do with states:
Democrats are happy that unemployment is down. Ok, that sounds good. But at the same time - food stamps more than doubled! Not so good?
To put what I am saying vividly with random numbers:
At first:
100.000 people, 7.000 unemployed, 15.000 on food stamps.
Decreasing unemployment range:
100.000 people, 5.200 unemployed, 32.000 on food stamps.
How is that a good thing? And how do you manage that?
Again, numbers are just random, to illustrate that it is very strange to have less unemployed, yet double the food stamps!
If you brag about one thing, brag about another 
Of course you can twist it this way - democrats made all those jobs happen, but republicans in the states forced lower wages. So yeah, democrats did good, but republicans ruined that. Typical GFY demoract fanboy rhetoric
But again - keep in mind that for that to happen not only ALL those extra jobs must be at food stamp level, but also many more "old" jobs should turn into food stamp jobs for food stamp numbers to increase more than double...
Could republicans destroy wages that much? YES THEY CAN! At least what crocket would say  |
If you do any reading at all, you will see that the reason Snap has doubled, goes back to 2007. With the financial melt down & housing market crash, the program was made easier to get assistance.
What you fail to notice in your little graph is the increase happened at the time of the depression. ie from 2007 to 2011 it shot up significantly as it rightfully should have. People were out of work and assistance was easier to get via snap and the assistance was needed.
Notice that from 2012 to 2013 there was very little rise? Yea that's because the economy was starting to take off.. Coming into 2014 the snaps will likely level off or go down and it will continue to go back down into 2015 and beyond as long as the economy keeps as it is..
As usual you just try to cherry pick something to support your agenda, but don't look at the full facts..
Notice when you start looking for 2014 info, suddenly there is a different picture painted? Why is it your graph conventionally left out 2014 spending?
SNAP Spending and Caseloads Falling | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
In 2014 the first 6 months spending on Snaps fell by 7-8% and also there were 7% less people on it compared to the first 6 months in 2013.
Of course this doesn't fit your agenda..
