Thanksgiving? 47 Million Americans On Food Stamps

The recession ended in June of 2009; 5 months after Obama took office.  According to our President, that signaled that America had turned the corner from one of the worst recessions that this country had ever faced.

If that was true, why are 47 million people, today, on food stamps; up from roughly 32 million when Obama took office and up from 27 million when the recession began in December of 2007?  And the numbers just keep growing at a faster and faster rate; as can be seen from this chart:

On this day of Thanksgiving, this is a said commentary.  Literally, 1 out of every 6 Americans depend on the government for their food.  A shameful statistic for a country that supposedly had so much greatness.  This, to me, is another one of the President's legacies of failure.  A sure sign that Americans are only getting poorer under Obama, as the eligibility for food stamps keeps rising.  This isn't redistribution of wealth.  Instead, it represents an increasing destruction of any financial independence that our previously low-income and middle-income American families once had.

--- Chart Source: Reflections of a Rational Republican: http://reflectionsofarationalrepublican.com/2011/08/09/bush-vs-obama-food-stamps/