Thanks directly to the Obama administration’s failed policies, the number of people using food stamps has risen 70%!
If we stay on the path Obama has put our nation on, by 2022, 1 in 10 U.S. residents will rely on food stamps! That is unbelievable!

Unbelievable that is until you realize that Obama and the Democrats actually want people to rely on food stamps, because that makes them dependent on the US Government, thereby making further expansion of the government size and scope much easier.

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014.

Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion four years earlier. The CBO projected that one in seven U.S. residents received food stamps last year.

In a report, the CBO said roughly two-thirds of jump in spending was tied to an increase in