Alabama movin on up

Yep!  Obama's economic plan is reaching new heights!  

I think dittohead is seeing the light.

AlObamas economic problems are just beginning. 

Unemployment just set a new high. 

As the Stimulus funds dry up, AlObama will be even more destitute than usual. 

Stimulus didn't work under FDR. Stimulus didn't work for the EU, the past year. Stimulus didn't work for Japan in the 1990's (national debt now 240 percent of GDP).

Ditzy,

Do you see a trend here!

The Stimulus worked here.  The economy improved immediately. 

We are about to have another contraction due to many factors, and most are beyond the control of government. 

From the Washington Post's analysis of the fourth quarter of 2009.

"Massive government spending to support the economy provided no net boost to overall growth. While non-defense federal spending rose at an 8.1 percent rate, spending on defense and by state and local governments was down sharply."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...?sid=ST2010012902152

The stimulus bill was nearly $800billion with about $300billion of it in tax cuts.  Of the remaining $500billion, about $150billion remains to be spent.  So $350billion in direct spending and $300billion in tax cuts, caused the GDP to shift 12% in only 3 quarters.  That is a huge success. 

Didn't read the analysis I posted, did you!

US News had a more detailed analysis.

By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

All the attention being paid to the healthcare debate has sort of pushed the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--also known as the stimulus--off the front page.

It's a shame really, because the latest employment figures--real unemployment figures--show it is still failing to deliver as promised. According to a table put together last December by the Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, payroll employment declined everywhere except for North Dakota and the District of Columbia in the nine months since the stimulus had been signed into law.

As I wrote at the time, "It is not just that the $789 billion package has not had the effect the White House promised it would; it's that it may actually have been counterproductive, actually lengthening the recession by effectively taking money out of the private economy, where it could have been used to create jobs and for investment purposes." 

On Friday, the committee released an updated version of that chart, which compares the White House's original projections of state-by-state job creation to the actual change in state payroll employment through February 2010 as measured by the U.S. Department of Labor. It shows that things have gone from bad to worse, with Alaska and D.C. now the only places to post job gains. 

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/...ne-from-bad-to-worse

The [dot] spike in May food stamps in Alabama was [dot] preceded by April’s devastating tornadoes which [dot] resulted in massive loss of employment and income in affected areas such as Tuscaloosa, Hackelburg, Phil Campbell, and Mount Hope.

Connect the dots.

Population of AlObama is about 4.7million, so there are about 2.35million adults in AlObama, and 1.8million adults-not including family members, are on food stamps.  In other words, most people in AlObama are on food stamps and the economy has not got bad here yet.  

Ditzy,

Do you have an inability to read graphs, or is it math dyslexia!  There are about 863,306 people total (including family members) using food stamps in Alabama.  That's a rise of about 85,934 since a year ago. 

Bad, yes, but get your figures right!

 http://blogs.wsj.com/economics...ans-use-food-stamps/.

Your post is Feb 2011.

Today is different.  Idiot.

Of Alabama's more than 4.7 million residents, 1.7 million are receiving assistance for food based on figures from the USDA. The figure has more than doubled from May 2010 to May 2011 for the state's residents.

Following a series of devastating storms, many residents received disaster assistance under the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the USDA said. Food stamp use in the state surged from 868,813 in April to 1,762,481 in May.

 I did learn that of the (4.7/2)million adults in AlObama, 1.7million are on food stamps, or about 72% of adults.  This state is is full of indigent people. 

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...es/story?id=14231657

Ditzy,

You didn't box in your youth, did you!  You're a sucker for a feint.  You previous posts to this thread indicated the large jump in food stamps/WIC was due to the economy alone.  When budsfarm pointed out that tornadoes had much to do with the sudden jump, again you denied it.  When I posted old information (on purpose) you couldn't wait to post the abc link.

Quoting from the link:

"Alabama is responsible for much of the 1.1 million increase in food stamp recipients after horrific storms tore through the area and led some residents to seek disaster relief, according to the United States Department of Agriculture"

Thanks for providing the proof of budsfarm's statement, which you denied.

I still have a few shares of the Eiffel Tower corporation for sell!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

You actually believe that 50% of the adults in ALObama suddenly needed food stamp because of the April tornado event????  Idiot.  No wonder you voted for BushIIe. 

Ditzy,

Now I know you've lost it, or is that math dyslexia kicking in again!  Where did I state that 50 percent of Alabama's adults needed food stamps because of the tornadoes?  Most of my figures are from the articles you cited.

Time for reading comprehension lessons, remedial math, or a nice quiet time out for you. 

 2.35million adults in AlObama, 1.7million are on food stamps, or about 72% of adults.  This state is is full of indigent people. 

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...es/story?id=14231657