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.