Under Obama 1 in 6 Americans are in Poverty

Because of Obama worthless policies and Pelosi and Reids outrageous spending, it put 48 million people in poverty and 43 million people collecting food stamps. Obama is fearful that he already lost the white collar workers in America, but it would be devastating if he lost the senior citizens vote too.

Every politician "suck-up" to seniors for their vote, but always ignore them after the elections. Medicare and Social Security are in shambles and the baby boomers are retiring in the next 10 years. And what was Obama's solution? Univeral Healthcare. Obama is hoping to collect a enough taxes to get a surplus, and with death panels, Obama is hoping for more weak seniors dead to leave room for the strong to survive. That is Obama's solution to fix Social Security and Medicare.

(YAHOO) WASHINGTON – The number of poor people in the U.S. is millions higher than previously known, with 1 in 6 Americans — many of them 65 and older — struggling in poverty due to rising medical care and other costs, according to preliminary census figures released Wednesday.

At the same time, government aid programs such as tax credits and food stamps kept many people out of poverty, helping to ensure the poverty rate did not balloon even higher during the recession in 2009, President Barack Obama's first year in office.

Under a new revised census formula, overall poverty in 2009 stood at 15.7 percent, or 47.8 million people. That's compared to the official 2009 rate of 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million, that was reported by the Census Bureau last September.

One in 7 US households hit by hunger issues in 2009

(Reuters) The number of U.S. households that reported getting emergency food from a food pantry almost doubled between 2007 and 2009, at the height of the recession, a government report said on Monday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the number of households jumped to 5.6 from 3.9 million.

"Households also accessed additional assistance through USDA's 15 food and nutrition assistance programs," the article in the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) "Amber Waves" said.

The USDA oversees the government's food stamp program, also known as SNAP or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, for low-income families and other domestic feeding programs like school lunches.

In the 2009 fiscal year, "15.2 million households participated in SNAP in an average month, up from 12.7 million in FY 2008," the article said.

It said more than 50 million people, including at least 17 million children, lived in households uncertain of having or getting enough food at some point because of insufficient money or other material resources.