And the CARNAGE continues....I'm sure it's Romney' fault!

Happy Thanksgiving: Food Pantries Overwhelmed Thanks to Obama Economy

President Obama’s most solid strongholds are suffering from economic disaster under his presidency, according to new reports. A University of Michigan study shows that 80 percent of people in southeast Michigan have been blasted by financial problems between 2007 and 2011. Those stastics were even higher among blacks without a college degree.

Assistant UM Professor of Social Work Kristen Seefeldt stated, according to local reports, that “researchers were shocked by the high levels of food insecurity, with nearly 28 percent of people interviewed did not have stable, reliable access to food or were forced to change their eating habits for financial reasons.” Some people, says Seefeldt, are skipping meals; that included many people with a job.

A few hundred miles to the East, Boston is running out of giveaway turkeys for the poverty-stricken. Three days in advance of Thanksgiving, the Pear Street Cupboard and Café in Framingham, Massachusetts, is out of turkeys. According to organizers, “requests for help are up 400 percent over last year.”

Moving south a few hundred miles, New York City food pantries and soup kitchens are shutting down at record rates thanks to overburden. One in four food pantries and soup kitchens have gone dark since 2007. “We’ve seen that food shortages are more commonplace and occur more broadly in our network and when people are turned away from a food pantry or a soup kitchen, it is most commonly due to a lack of food,” said Triada Stampas of the Food Bank for New York City. That was before Hurricane Sandy.

Moving to Connecticut, food bank officials are reporting serious shortages. “We’ve been hit in two directions,” explains Marjorie Dauster, a member of the Food Pantry Council. “There are economic issues in Connecticut, plus with hurricane Sandy the demand has been very high … We’re going to have a hard time serving them this year.”

Moving back to the west, St. Louis is now reporting that local food pantries are being overrun thanks to the “new poor.” Emmanuel Seventh Day Adventist Food Pantry Director Liz Chambwa says demand is up significantly: “People are losing their jobs, there’s not enough food coming in anymore for donors as much as they used to, so we really have to get out and do a lot of food drives and we get more and more people every week.”

These shortages are exacerbated by rising food costs; the USDA says that fish and chicken prices could jump 4 percent this year, with beef jumping 5 percent. Peg Bianca, executive director of the Greater Berks Food Bank in Pennsylvania, says, “It just changes the types of products we order. If tuna fish becomes too expensive, I don’t buy tuna fish. The number of people needing help doesn’t change.”

This is the new normal. And it’s set to get worse, thanks to the business impact of Obamacare and tax increases pushed by President Obama.

it's Bush's fault!
(Now THAT should get the idiot foaming at the mouth!)
The big question for the board is, who's the bigger tool?  Snowball, bug-sucker or some other right-wing nimrod.
I know! Let's have a contest! A "Tool-Off!"  Who's the most brain-dead of the Right-Wing RepubliTards?  I say it ends in a 5-way tie.  6 if Cartman makes an unwelcome return.  Bug-stuffer has the early lead...

I don't know who is more pathetic, Obama still blaming someone else after 4 years you you idiots who parrot that line.

You do have one thing in common, NO FUCKING CREDIBILITY!!!

I thought it was obvious my post about Bush was sarcasm/baiting of bug-boy and you thought I was serious?  I did it to bait him into a response, and it was you who rose up like a brain-dead trout and took the bait.  You clearly fall into what Gambler used to call TSTTT (Too Stupid To Talk To).
Now, cue snowball's rant about how I really meant it and he's not a dumbfuck.  LMAO!  Back on the short bus, loser.

What a tool.  Anyone reading that post should have known immediately it was a blatant troll for righties.  Even bug-sucker wasn't dumb enough to reply.  But snowball was!
It's official: snowball wins the Tool-Off as the biggest tool on the board.  His title is secure as TBTOTP&RB (The Biggest Tool On The P&R Board)
TSTTT !

in the Obama Economy. Four years of no growth and 15% real unemployment!
You can't eat Dow 50 share prices...but you CAN have gubbermunt cheese!!!
Thank God for all the SMART PEOPLE who reelected the NotSoShovelReadyJobs President.


Americans On Food Stamps This Thanksgiving At All-Time High

A record number of Americans -- 42.2 million (1.37% of the population) will use food stamps this Thanksgiving.

A Sunlight Foundation study found that average participation in the program has increased 70 percent since 2007, with costs reaching $72 billion.

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), “almost two-thirds of the growth in spending” on the food stamp program between 2007 and 2011 “stemmed from the increase in the number of participants” as the federal government has actively recruited individuals to put on the program.

The record number of Americans on food stamps is reflective not only of a slumping economy but also of a permanent political class, mostly compose of Democrats, that want to keep lower-income Americans dependent on food stamps to have a constituency dependent on government services.

In addition, corporations in the financial sector with embedded interests and lobbyists in Washington, D.C. also benefit from increased food stamp usage by raking in fees associated with EBT cards.

These are reasons why the federal government has aggressively attempted to put more individuals on food stamps and that partly explain why 10 million more Americans have gone on food stamps since 2009 even as the unemployment rate has slightly dropped.

fall into my troll trap above, so props to you!  But snowball did!  What a tool!  You have avoided, for now, winning the Tool-Off and becoming TBTOTP&RB!  That title goes to snowie.  TSTTT.
Nice work!  Some of the facts you cite are even correct!  The causes, however, are much more complicated than you are willing to admit.  We will agree to disagree on that.

That would not have had any effect on this years thanksgiving.

Sunlight Foundation, are they sponsored by Jesus?

By the time Obama's done "fundamentally changing" America 80 million will be on food stamps and they'll be gubbermunt cheese for EVERYBODY!!! Well, the latinos will have queso.

What a terrible stage name.

using the filibuster, while blaming Obama for not working with them. Yep, the Repubs in congress are more loyal to their party than their country.

Quite Frankly, I'll take four more years of Obama over whatever the hell Mitt was going to do any day.  That guy has proven time and time again that he'll just say whatever it takes to make his audience happy and that he has no clue how most Americans live.  He would have been a horrible President, and now even those who "supported" him are now saying that.  Politics isn't business.  You can't bulldog your way through things.  

Anyways, I would just like to mention again how entertaining I find it that the right wing nut jobs are still mad and still trying to point out every little thing they can to prove Obama is not a good President or shouldn't be President.  There's so much hatred and vitriol - when W was in for 8 years, the other side simply put up with it and made jokes.  You right wing guys need to get a life.  And if it bothers you THAT much, you can always leave.  #USA

Donations are markedly dismal.

I'm pissing off all the right people

BTW, I know you may not like me responding, but then again, freedom of speech has never been a concept liberals care for.