Posted on 03/20/2015 12:29:26 PM PDT by bgill
With a grocery bills priced as high as $1,300 per month as of late, some American workers simply cannot afford all of their groceries on top of everything else they already have to buy. This is why the government offers food stamps.
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service reports that as of September 2014, there were around 46.5 million individual food stamp recipients (22.7 million households) receiving an average benefit of $123.74 each (around $257 per household).
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Think of this.
Historically, when the bread and circuses stop, the people depending on them get very upset.
Your plan would start a nation wide riot leading to a revolution.
The grasshoppers outnumber the ants, and have less compulsion for violence.
Don’t let them get people thinking of DC is As a state. Even in stats that prove conservative points.
Numbers versus percentages.
To me percentages are more indicative of what is happening in a particular state.
And of course if you did it by county, it would be heavily urban oriented.
Food for thought. In a sane world perhaps.
It is becoming apparent that Mississippi is on top of a great many sh!t lists- wonder why that is- oh, wait...
With States legalizing MJ it won't be too long before they will be able to purchase it with EBT.
In other words, would ya rather live in a state with a 1 people where with 200k on food stamps or a state with 5 million population with 300k on food stamps?
They use per capita numbers for a good reason.
Same here. Family of three in nyc and the food bill is about $150/week. Used to be under $100/week in 2008 or so, (and We are not obese.)
Correction:
No it’s not misleading. Your comment is misleading. The article clearly states “per capita”.
In other words, would ya rather live in a state of 1 million where with 200k on food stamps or a state with 5 million population with 300k on food stamps?
They use per capita numbers for a good reason.
I read a lengthy story about how EBT is “legally”
monetized in rural Kentucky.
Apparently everyone takes their EBT card to the store and buys hundreds of cans of soda. Then they take the soda to another store down the street and sell it for 60-65 cents on the dollar. Then that soda is sold to the next EBTer and so on with a nice profit for the store.
Can’t be right! Everyone knows Mississippi is always bottom and ...Where is Arkansas!
New Mexico and DC, super Liberal Oregon? Tennessee? then Louisiana? What is going on here!
To simplify it, which state would you rather be in, a state with 1 in every 5 on the stamps or a state with 1 in every 10 on stamps?
1 in 10 would be much better and again, this is why they use per capita. It tells the real story, because all populations are not equal.
“D.C.?
You would think with all those government jobs and government money floating around, they would not be #2 on the list.”
A lot of people in DC are unemployable.
...some American workers simply cannot afford all of their groceries on top of everything else they already have to pay for like other peoples’ food stamps and welfare, the soaring national debt, huge wasteful government programs, foreign aid boondoggles, and replenishing the SSI funds the government has thrown away on Midnight Basketball etc.
This is why the government offers food stamps.
US government: “Giving back pennies on the dollars we take!”
US media: Telling you that’s a generous thing for the government to do LOL!
Or the food banks/pantries.
What you said. And the older I get, and the more the takers feel more entitled to the fruit of my hard work, the more angry I am getting over the situation.
Every 5th person?
I’m not even IN one of those states and I can’t recall a time when I didn’t pay for groceries of the person in front of me at Walmart.
If they never allowed tens of millions of foreigners and illegal alien into the U.S. every few years, there would be no problem regarding food stamps, social services etc...
We’re being choked off by import people.
And government is bringing them in by the jumbo jet and freight trains full... Every day.
The main reason that liberals defend these programs is that they can feel righteous without actually having to do or sacrifice anything.
And that seems reasonable, because I don’t want the govt involved in those charitable programs at all.
But the govt knows every kid on the school lunch program already.
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