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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fact Check: Gingrich’s Obama Food Stamp Claim Was False [View all]
Fact Check: Gingrichs Obama Food Stamp Claim Was False
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/fact-check-shows-gingrichs-obama-food-stamp-claim-was-false/
FactCheck.org has looked into Newt Gingrichs claim that Barack Obama had put more people on Food Stamps than any President in American history and has found that it was false. More people we put on the EBT debit card program that replaced Food Stamps under George W. Bush than Obama.
Gingrich also failed to take into account that during Bushs last year the amount of people receiving EBT tripled and the fact that while Bush inherited a $236 billion surplus from Bill Clinton, Obama inherited a $5 trillion deficit and a recession from Bush.
Fact Check.Org reports:
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Newt Gingrich claims that more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history. Hes wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures.
But Gingrich goes too far to say Obama has put more on the rolls than other presidents. We asked the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food and Nutrition service for month-by-month figures going back to January 2001. And they show that under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Nothing before comes close to that.
And under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million. To be exact, the program has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obamas time in office than during Bushs. The economic downturn began in December 2007. In the 12 months before Obama was sworn in, 4.4 million were added to the rolls, triple the 1.4 million added in 2007.
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gingrivitis' attack on obama is false today, but in a few months, it will be true.
unblock
Jan 2012
#21
Well, when someone uses racists language to state that Black People should want jobs instead
FrenchieCat
Jan 2012
#26