President Obama's Stimulus Screwed Many Unemployed People

Today’s Moron – President Barack Obama

I know, I know – I will surely get yelled at for this one!  How can I possibly criticize the President?  Well, just because he is The President does not make him faultless.  And, usually, I let things pass with him because I very much want to see his success.  But I realized something yesterday that truly was a moron-step for President Barack Obama, and being a non-partisan blog, I have to point it out.  It wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t.

Do you remember the new Stimulus Package that was passed in February?  The one that gave all those millions on unemployment an extra $25 per week in Federal funds?  Well, that all sounds well and good – who on unemployment couldn’t use that extra $100 a month you might ask.  Of course you would assume everyone could use it.   But I found out that that extra $100 a month is actually a hinderance for many that are struggling and just trying to get by.

In many states, the income cut-off for receiving food stamp assistance was just above the unemployment compensation for those states, meaning that people on meager unemployment also qualified for food stamps allowing them a little bit more assistance during their difficult time. 

But when Obama signed this new Stimulus Act into law and added the extra $100 a month to everybody’s unemployment, in a majority of states this put all those people OVER the cut-off of income to qualify for food stamp assistance!  So, Obama gives and extra $100 a month in unemployment, only to force hundreds of thousands to lose between $200 and $400 a month in food stamp assistance!  How totally retarded and ignorant of a move was that?  There are people out there that were relying on that little bit of extra help to get by.  There are people with kids that used that food stamp money to put food on the table and now can not do it.  So, what looked like ‘helping the poor and unfortunate’ ended up being used by most states to screw the poor. 

And this should have been looked at by Obama and his people prior to putting the extra $25 in place.  They should have known this would happen.  A little due diligence and this may have been avoided.  But, it wasn’t.   And he passed it.  And because of Obama, many are hurting more now than they were without his ’stimulus’.  So, thanks Barack, so much, for stepping on the poor.  I am sure they are enjoying the struggle that much more now that they can’t eat, either.