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‘Nearly 50 Million Americans in Poverty, WORST SINCE LBJ’
April 3, 2013
By Wynton Hall (Breitbart)

'Even as the Obama White House prepares for a star-studded White House concert
featuring Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, and Justin Timberlake,
figures from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that roughly 50 million Americans—
ONE IN SIX—now live below the poverty line.

Additionally,
ONE IN FIVE American children have fallen below the poverty line;
THE LAST TIME POVERTY LEVELS WERE THIS HIGH,
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON WAS PRESIDENT.

"In the last three years, there's been a great change
in the kinds of people we are serving,”
said Director of Community Services at Catholic Charities of Baltimore Mary Anne O’Donnell.
“There are increasing numbers of people who owned a home,
lost their jobs, end up living in their car
and are coming with children to our soup kitchen.”
...
Welfare program enrollments have exploded under President Barack Obama.
AMERICANS ON FOOD STAMPS NOW OUTNUMBER THE COMBINED POPULATIONS OF 24 U.S. STATES,
COSTING TAXPAYERS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE AMOUNT SPENT ON FOOD STAMPS FIVE YEARS AGO.

In January 2009, 31.9 million Americans received food stamps.
Today, that figure is 47.79 million.

The Obama Administration’s shift to looser eligibility requirements
and lax oversight enforcement has also created what the Wall Street Journal dubbed
a “FOOD STAMP CRIME WAVE.”
...
Other government programs, such as THE DISABILITY PROGRAM,
have now MORPHED INTO PROXY FORMS OF WELFARE.
A recent National Public Radio (NPR) investigation revealed that 14 million Americans
now receive disability checks each month, costing taxpayers $260 billion annually.
The report chronicled the rise of the “disability industrial complex,”
A PROGRAM FRAUGHT WITH FRAUD AND ABUSE. ...

Still, Obama promises that jobs and opportunity are on the way.
“We’re going to fix our economy,” said Obama last week in Miami, Florida. ... '

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Source:
Nearly 50 Million Americans in Poverty, Worst Since LBJ

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Meanwhile, instead of rolling up his sleeves,
pulling up his Oval Office chair, and working with Republicans
to solve America's deep problems,
Obama has been in sunshiny California this week -
in his usual campaign mode - partying
and raking in money from fat-cat Democrats.
Raising big bucks for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
and getting ready for Timberlake takes precedence,
don't ya know.


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