Flashback: As Gingrich Calls Obama A ‘Food Stamp President’, He Was One Of Biggest Spenders

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FLASHBACK: As Gingrich Calls Obama A ‘Food Stamp President’, He Was One Of Biggest Spenders In Congress
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/14/gingrich-was-big-spender/

Last night, GOP presidential primary candidate Newt Gingrich appeared at the Georgia Republican Party’s state-wide convention, where he delivered a wide-ranging speech covering a variety of issues related to his presidential run.

At one point during the speech, Gingrich derided progressive economic policies that value public investment and spending to get back to work, saying that “we’re at the crossroads” and that “down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system” and the other road is a “proud, solid reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.” He then went on to declare Obama to be a “food stamp president”:

GINGRICH: President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. <...> I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Watch it:

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A 1996 article from New York Magazine notes this:

(Gingrich) represents Cobb County, a prosperous jurisdiction that ranks third among suburban counties in federal dollars returned per resident. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the federal government spent $4.4 billion in Cobb County in 1994, some $10,000 per resident, or nearly twice as much per capita as it spent in New York City.

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1. Mustn't let facts get in the way of the hype. nt

[Zenlitened]

2. Be sure to pick up a copy of Gingrich's new best-seller.

It's a cookbook!