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US unemployment February 2009: 8.3% US unemployment now: 8.3% Joel Send a noteboard - 05/09/2012 12:53:08 AM
Food stamps just hit a new high, etc.

Any questions?

Not bad considering it started going up from 5% in April 2008 and did not stop until it hit 10% in October 2009. Mercifully, it has been going down since, but we are far from out of the woods, so this is no time to switch horses in mid-stream. Particularly since we dismounted the old one because it was DROWNING.

I will let you (reputably) source the figures you referenced. I am pretty sure a smaller percentage of Americans are on foodstamps now than in, say, 1936.

In fact, by the standard Romney states, that the the first 6-12 months are on the previous president, unemployment is significantly lower than the 9.6% it was at six months after Bush, or the 9.8% it was twelve months after Bush.
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So then you don't Bush for the 2008 when dems controlled both houses? *NM* random thoughts - 05/09/2012 07:36:29 PM 277 Views
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Nope..... *NM* Anonymous2000 - 05/09/2012 01:09:24 AM 263 Views
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Funny how that lets not count the first month rule wasn't applied for Bush *NM* random thoughts - 05/09/2012 02:44:45 AM 257 Views
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Once again, the beauty of hard facts is they do not change depending on source. Joel - 05/09/2012 02:58:41 AM 712 Views
Speaking about Obama's performance - Food Stamps usage hits new high Anonymous2000 - 04/09/2012 04:53:13 PM 628 Views
So more people are able to eat in hard economic times. Dannymac - 06/09/2012 05:31:38 AM 588 Views
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