The Food Stamp President
18th January 2012
The White House apparently doesn’t like the association between Obama and food stamps; Jay Carney said that the claim that President Obama’s policies have added to the food stamp rolls is “crazy.”
But true, nevertheless. Check the graph and its supporting numbers.
January 18th, 2012 at 13:33
Expecting a Democrat to be held accountable for results, rather than intentions? Now that’s just crazy!
January 18th, 2012 at 15:47
Let me remind: correlation is not causality. Of course, that means nothing to the Obama delenda est! crowd…
January 19th, 2012 at 12:46
Let’s do a controlled study and change one variable, say change the occupant of the Oval Office to one with, let’s say, pro-American/pro-capitalist values and see if we can move closer to determining causality. 🙂
January 19th, 2012 at 14:31
Unfortunately, by the time you change one variable the others will have changed, also. You can’t have a controlled experiment.
But if you could, you could change a different variable, say the obstructionist ‘Just Say No’ Republicans in Congress. Then perhaps we’d see some progress.
January 19th, 2012 at 17:45
‘Just Say No’ Republicans in Congress?!? Excuse me?! They suck only fractionally less than the Democrats – and especially so on spending! If they actually stuck to “NO”, we might not be in the shape we’re in.
Dennis, as for your arguement on corelation/causality, that only works if you limit the comment to this single article. When you consider the rather lengthy list of actions by the “O” Administration and the dismal economic results, then the cause becomes abundantly clear. Socialism fails because no economic system can support it. Putting a Chicago politician in charge with Democrats and RINOs as the supporting cast fast-tracks the failure.
January 21st, 2012 at 10:43
Ah, yes, the ‘Maybe this one is an exception, but all the others constitute proof!’ argument. Special Pleading, I think that’s called.
The fact is that all of the lengthy list of actions you cite are themselves correlative, but haven’t been demonstrated to be causitive–except in the minds of conservative economists and those True Believers who cleave to the dogma.
And your fervent continuous one-note chorus of ‘socialism is the cause of all evil’ is a gross oversimplification. But you know that. And you don’t care. So let it go.