Food Stamps for the Masses While First Family Lives it Up

A First Family jet-setting from one vacation spot to another while  Americans suffer through unemployment, debt,  frustration, exhaustion and just plain fear of what awaits their children in ten years, has to stop.
Sorry, President and Mrs. Obama, you need to cancel your August 19th one-week getaway to Martha’s Vineyard. We are paying for your Secret Service protection, the official entourage, and gassed up Air Force One whenever you need another romp to Kailua, Asheville, New York City, Marbella, London, Paris and Bar Harbor.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reports that 40.8 million people are now collecting food stamps, up from 19% a year ago. Not two, or three or four Bush years ago, but 2009-2010. Unemployment is expected to stay the same at %9.5 or increase when the figures come out at the end of this week. “First time claims for unemployment benefits rose last week to their highest levels in four months.” You promised it wouldn’t go over %8 with the stimulus bill. Right.
The U.S. Census Bureau released the figures on new orders for manufactured goods this week. Orders decreased for two consecutive months by 1.2% from $5.1 billion to $404.4 billion. Less orders means less production, less production means less jobs and so on. No jobs leads to no spending and with consumer purchasing 70% of the American economy the retail and service industries are tanking.
President Obama, you are spending like a drunken sailor. The $787  billion stimulus bill, the trillion dollar apocalyptic health care fiasco, a $4.5 billion educational incentive program and of course, Michelle’s ‘Let’s get rid of fat people program’ at a cool $10 billion. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg we’re about to hit.