The new talking point of Democratic politicians and apologists is that Barack Obama prevented another Great Depression. Unfortunately what they claim Obama prevented is still going strong. Two statistics show the current economic downturn is not ending soon: the unemployment rate and the number of people on food stamps.
The government says unemployment is at 10%, but the government changed the way they report unemployment to make the unemployment rate look better than it really is. If you use the statistics that were used to calculate unemployment during the Great Depression, the current unemployment rate is around 20%. 20% unemployment is Great Depression territory.
Moving on to food stamps, 1 in 6 Americans use food stamps. If there were no food stamps program, you would have millions of people in soup and bread lines, which would look a lot like Great Depression times. 1 in 6 Americans are on food stamps, and Democratic politicians are bragging about what they've done. And the Democrats are supposedly the political party that cares about the poor, the party that's in touch with the needs of the poor and working class.
