Columbia S.C. - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney pushed back against Newt Gingrichs critique that President Obama has been the countrys greatest food stamp president.
The fact of the matter is this country is emerging from the worst recession since the Great Depression the greatest economic and financial crisis of our lifetimes Carney told reporters who pressed him about Gingrich twice during the White House press briefing. When this president took the oath of office in January of 2009 our economy was in freefall. We were hemorrhaging jobs at the rate of nearly 800000 a month. The economy was contracting or had contracted in the previous quarter the last quarter of President Bushs term in office by nearly 9 percent.
A reporter told Carney that the language that the Speaker uses is that these are people that President Obama put on food stamps.
Well you know as well as I do that thats crazy Carney responded.
Gingrich fired back arguing that blaming the countrys economic problems on the previous administration was true in January of 2009 but in the three years since then it has been Obamas policies which have weakened the economy crippled American energy and put Americans on food stamps.
Columbia S.C. - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney pushed back against Newt Gingrichs critique that President Obama has been the countrys greatest food stamp president.
The fact of the matter is this country is emerging from the worst recession since the Great Depression the greatest economic and financial crisis of our lifetimes Carney told reporters who pressed him about Gingrich twice during the White House press briefing. When this president took the oath of office in January of 2009 our economy was in freefall. We were hemorrhaging jobs at the rate of nearly 800000 a month. The economy was contracting or had contracted in the previous quarter the last quarter of President Bushs term in office by nearly 9 percent.
A reporter told Carney that the language that the Speaker uses is that these are people that President Obama put on food stamps.
Well you know as well as I do that thats crazy Carney responded.
Gingrich fired back arguing that blaming the countrys economic problems on the previous administration was true in January of 2009 but in the three years since then it has been Obamas policies which have weakened the economy crippled American energy and put Americans on food stamps.
