Washington, D.C.– As the February jobs numbers were released, U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX), Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, challenged President Obama’s re-election claim of ‘an economy built to last’.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) reported today that the economy added 246,000 private sector payroll jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%.
“The number of Americans forced to subsist on food stamps to avoid hunger has grown faster than those finding jobs under President Obama. That’s not an economy built to last. That’s an economy that is struggling,” said Brady.
The White House frequently boasts that the U.S. economy has created 6.4 million private sector jobs since jobs bottomed out in February 2010. But more than 8 million American families were added to the food stamp rolls through November 2012 (latest data). That’s a ratio of 1.4 new people on food stamps for every new private sector job created from the jobs bottom through November 2012.
“When President Clinton left office only one in 16 Americans needed food stamps. Under President Obama, it’s grown to nearly one in six. That’s the pain that families endure under the weakest economic recovery in modern times,” said Brady.
President Clinton, working with Republicans in Congress, shrunk the size of government and balanced the budget, while reducing the number of food stamp recipients by 10 million, Brady noted.
“President Obama could learn a thing or two from the last Democratic president. Growing the government isn’t growing the middle class in America,” said Brady. “The sign of a compassionate government isn’t more Americans needing food stamps. It is more Americans working in well-paying jobs so they no longer need assistance.”
3 comments:
I am wondering what the Ratio of illegal aliens on food stamps is to actual citizens of the USA.
There are 11 million illegals in this country. You can figure out the reason they are here. (Free food, free hospitals,social security,free phones and what ever else they can get free.
11 million illegals in the country? Count again. There are that many in Texas, alone.
Houston didn't grow from 3/4 million, to 5 million in the Houston-Galveston metro area, without a huge influx of illegals' birth rates. Yes, made in America (with Mexican parts.)
Go to any town along the Rio Grande border on a Friday afternoon. You will see thousands of illegals' school kids, going home to Mexico for the weekend, after enjoying free school, breakfasts, and lunches. All this, at our expense.
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