Posted on 03/11/2013 6:35:57 AM PDT by Perdogg
On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was the biggest it's ever been, with an average of 46,609,072 people on the program every month of last year. 47,791,996 people were on the program in the month of December 2012.
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The DemocRATS’ socialist utopia.
The”Food Stasmp”POTUS?I don’t see why not??????????????????
Who you gonna' vote for?
The reason the number of people receiving food stamps is increasing isn’t because there are more people in “poverty.” Its because Obama keeps expanding eligibility so that lower middle class and even some middle class people can get food stamps. He’s trying to get everyone hooked on government. If everyone is getting some type of government check, they won’t want to cut spending. Its more creeping Socialism that has little to do with actually needing food.
Hypothetical question for FReepers:
If we all believe that a total system collapse is almost inevitable then why don’t conservatives sign up for every one of these programs they can, use the extra money to prepare themselves for the coming economic doomage and go ahead and hasten the crisis? Why not reverse Cloward Piven on the socailists?
Of course that would require a willing suspension of morality and some people would have a harder time with that than others ...
Full on pimp/community organizer.
From article: “Obama administration is encouraging growth in the food stamps program as a way to stimulate the economy.”
Steal from the producers to give to the non-producer.
How does this help?
For grocers and retailers - its a good deal - tax free income. Federal law prohibits EBT from being charged sales tax and processing fees.
College kids from Middle Class backgrounds get Foodstamps (EBT).
I know some. Because they are on Work-Study, they automatically qualify for Foodstamps.
As soon as they got the card, they went to Trader Joes and stocked up on organic goodies.
Was at Costco this weekend, where an African American gentleman ahead of us had a cart full of $300 pounds of only top quality meat.
His EBT (foodstamps) card was rejected.
He was pi$$ed.
My local fishmonger reports that people will come in and load up on lobster, king crab legs, and everything else that costs around $20 / pound.
Then they come to the register and try to pay with foodstamps (EBT).
He now has a sign saying “EBT NOT ACCEPTED.”
He tells me, “I’m trying to run an upscale place with great product for a high-end clientele. I don’t want to take foodstamps!”
My neighbor in Southern Oregon was getting more and more wealthy through the 0bama Recession / Depression with his pizza parlor.
I asked him, “How is it that you’re doing so well when unemployment around here is about 20%?”
Answer: “It’s TAKE-AND-BAKE pizza, so I can accept the EBT.”
My wife lined up behind a well-dressed woman in line with all the best organic and specialty food items. High end spices, French cheeses, etc.
She paid with the EBT.
I know of a school where all the kids are on Free and Reduced Lunch program, and all the families have the EBT card.
Nonetheless, the kids are picked up after school by mom (and sometimes “dad”, though not legally “dad” because that would reduce the welfare check).....
.... in the LEXUS that reeks of MARIJUANA.
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The state with the highest average number of participants per month in 2012 was Texas, with an astonishing 4,038,440 folks drawing from the program.
Hmmm...interesting
Texas has huge numbers on Medicaid and Medicare also.
That’s why the talk of “secession” is so hollow.
Impeachment File for B. Hussein Obama.
He was pi$$ed.
I was in line at the local grocery store last week and a guy two people in front of me swiped his card. The cashier asked if he "needed cash today". I thought it was a debit card, but then I noticed the EBT on the card.
He got $75 when I was loading my bags into the pickup, he was walking into the liquor store a few doors from the grocery store. That was when I got pi$$ed.
A local station here in Indy got a file from the state on locations and amounts where EBT/TANF cards were swiped.
Vegas, Puerto Rico, Disney (CA and FL), etc.
I noticed something interesting when I scanned that chart. There are two states who had more than 10% of their “working poor” population eligible for SNAP in 2010.
Mississippi and Texas. I would have guessed the first but not the latter.
You all raise excellent points, and we are quickly reaching a tipping point where even middle-class people who agree with us philosophically are going to start regarding themselves as suckers and fools if they don’t sign up too.
Can we say illegals?
In Texas: Illegals
Which makes sense however California according to the chart has only about 8% eligible for SNAP. I guess it depends on their definition of "working poor."
Our fat poor are the envy of the third world.
Too bad they don’t break out illegal and non-citizens in those stats.
Amazing. They say we have only 11 million illegals, but SOMEHOW, our food stamp roles have swollen, almost IMMEDIATELY by some 40 million or so in a very short time period . . .
Just like I know people who call themselves conservatives who see no problem spending down mom’s money to qualify for medicaid for the old folk’s home or ‘walking away’ from an upside down mortgage twice within the same decade.
One very frightening and disgusting figure in this chart is population per House seat.
Our Founders wrote “Article the First” as a way to enumerate Representatives to Congress based on the decadal census. They arbitrarily froze the number of representatives at 435 during FDR’s reign, and it’s been stuck there ever since. Prior to that time, the number of representatives in the House rose based on the population numbers from the census.
One representative to a million people, for instance in Montana, is NOT a representative government.
They take that kind of payment at Costco?!!!
Food stamps now are essentially a second currency in America. A mass market food retailer who didn't trade in food stamps would be hard pressed to stay in business.
Don’t forget Texas also got refugees from New Orleans from Katrina and most stayed; in fact I read a magazine article that said most had their families left in New Orleans join them later in Texas instead of them going back to LA.
I remember driving past "Reelect Ray Nagan" billboards here in Atlanta. They never left here either.
Oh, I already feel like a sucker and fool. If I could get EBT I would. The Federal Gov't is stealing from me already, so I would like to get back anything I could.
I know in Michigan they redid the eligibility requirements and college students were not allowed to receive foodstamps. The food stamp ebt in Michigan has been revamped whereby the recipient no longer receive food stamps at the beginning of the month, the state has implemented by the day of the month certain number of recipients receive the benefit for 22 days, whereby the number of recipients receiving the food stamps is spread throughout the month.
On the contrary, it would require a willing application of morality. But they can't be bothered.
Signing up for welfare requires eligibility. One would have to divest oneself of much income and assets. Who does that for the sake of America?
If enough people did that -- just a substantial number of conservatives, together -- the government would cave before the EBT cards could be delivered.
But as I said, they can't be bothered.
Not all conservatives are that well off and the requirements for government assistance aren't that restrictive.
Not all conservatives are that well off and the requirements for government assistance aren't that restrictive.
You're missing the point, but I have made it in numerous earlier posts. For "much income," read: "much of one's own income."
If one reduces one's income to the level at which one qualifies for welfare, one does not need to pay income tax. If the productive (not the "well off") people got together and did it in an organized way (reduced income to avoid income tax), with the purpose of restoring liberty, the government would surrender so fast there wouldn't be time to pay out welfare.
That would entail some inconvenience, though; even hardship for the sake of America.
Think about how this works. The liberals (some of them)have honorable intentions, but they are incapable of seeing the unintended consequences.
When you subsidize those that can’t or won’t work - you sustain them to do something. Idle people tend (especially young people) toward a couple of activities - crime and procreation. So the act of food stamps, welfare, etc. results in even more people to sustain and increased crime - thus the crapholes that many of our inner cities have become.as long as we subsidize this, the worse the problem will become.
The so called “compassion” is not compassion at all, it is an increasing of the problem with no way out except bankruptcy and anarchy
If my tax accountant tells me that my middle class family qualifies I would be a bad steward of my family’s potential recources not to jump in. These insidious Fabian socialists are realizing their dreams of the takers destroying the dreams of people like me working extra hard to move up the income ladder. Too bad commie socialist pigs- kicking ass is in our DNA!
What is the alternative to food stamps?
Food Stamps are a way of giving money to the grocery business as well as feeding America’s freeloaders.
It would make more sense if the money were given to soup kitchens. If people are really hungry they’ll eat there and pick up other items at food banks and other assorted charities/relatives/wealthier neighbors/etc., that feel sorry for them.
In return for the taxpayer given food they can clean and tidy up neighborhoods and be forced to grow vegetables in every vacant space in America.
Obama is the entitlement guru! What a failure to establish a record with close to 50 million people on food stamps! Obama does not represent the working tax payer, he represents the entitlement people. Those who can’t work, who can’t feed their babies, who can’t afford a car, who can’t afford housing, who can’t get a job, who can’t keep a job, who can’t pay for their medical, and those who can’t be a productive member of this country! Obama does not represent the American’s, Obama represents the Americant’s!
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