Posted on 04/03/2011 6:51:10 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
Because why have a nice, sunny morning? We probably can’t afford those anymore, anyhow.
Primed by the financial meltdown; took off like a rocket in January 2009, and is now reaching for the stars. Over 44 million on the rolls (somewhere around 14.3% of the population), which is about 14 million or so more than when this administration took office. The graph is sufficiently grim and depressing on its own to make further commentary largely unnecessary, but I will add one sardonic comment. If current conditions are what the White House considers to be “our economic recovery,” then let me be clear: You’re Doing It Wrong
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The other day, a Latino Lady who could not speak a word of English, pushed 4 shopping carts through the line at Wal-Mart, fully loaded with huge Beef Roasts, Large Turkeys, Meats, Chips, vegetables, candy etc, and she fanned out several Hundred in cash for Magazines, smokes & Beer.
Don’t let the food stamps statistic fool you. The reason more people are on food stamps is because of expanded eligibility. This is creeping socialism, pure and simple.
There is also a more pragmatic reason for expanded eligibility. Affirmative Action college "students", hooked on three free meals daily from HeadStart-K-12 expect the benefits to continue indefinitely, so it has been expanded there. Also, with engineered higher food prices, to keep the feral classes from revolting, the inflation is hidden from them in the form of Section 8, food stamps, energy and utility subsidies et al.
Finally, the expanded eligibility allows formerly two-income households the ability and ease to stay on unemployment for as long as the benefits last. Since the Fe'ral Government is actively encouraging people to stay unemployed, the States aren't seeing normally employable men and women looking for work, rather preferring to stay unemployed and draw down on State budgets which causes the individual States to beg DC for "stimulus money" and any other form of cash to put off the inevitable.
This is an engineered destruction of the united States and this is one of many tools used by them to accomplish their task of destroying a people and their nation.
“Can you imagine the stupidity?”
Considering that Present Stroker was ever elected to occupy OUR White House in the first place...the answer is YES.
Why are they not required to pay it all back? This program should be a loan program. Just don't charge interest. A small handling fee would suffice. Welfare should be the same way!
If this were in place, there would be far less scamming it, and those who try to skip out on their debt, should be penalized and charged interest by the IRS or an agency like them if we ever go to a flat tax system.
There are about 85 million households in the US, and now 44 million foodstamp recipients.
This is a Great Depression...we just don’t have soup lines, we have food stamps.
Yup!
And they are sitting comfortably in their homes, not having to make payments, getting free food and entertainment and watching their Big Screen TV’s. Who needs to work? There is no incentive for them to get back to work!
What this country needs is starvation. Let those people find themselves without any welfare at all, no food stamps, to WIC, no public housing, no extended UI, etc., and watch just how fast this country turns around.
Well, AFTER the riots and Civil War more than likely!
Since Michelle Obama wants to be sure that children eat a healthy diet, there should be strict limits on what can be purchased with the food stamp program. Prepped foods such as Totino’s pizza and State Fair corndogs should not be allowed. All food with large additions of corn syrup or sugar such as Sunny Delight citrus drink, Regu pasta sauce, and Oreo cookies would no longer be permitted. What would be allowed are basic food stuffs such as whole wheat flour, sugar, frozen orange juice, canned and fresh tomatoes, ...
The problem is that many people have no idea how to prepare food for their families or themselves.
Units of dependents/economic slaves endowed by their masters with certain alienable rights, among them food.
Redistibute the wafers. Where’s my cheese?
Defund the collectivists/totalitarians collectives.
Good idea. And Drug Test all of them first.
Now we all know that would be “Unconstitutional”! The HORROR!
The6 aren’t even stigma-inducing stamps any more. It’s a convenient debit card. Sheesh.
Given to Obama Crony JP Morgan, and they are making Billions off of it.
“I think we are basically in a Great Depression,”
I think you are correct!
If the the government subsidies of laziness were suddenly removed there would be (will be) the end of civilized society.
(buy more ammo...............)
This needs to be said again.
And they had a good start with the FED, and the policies of FDR. DeathCare is just the latest in a long string of building blocks used to destroy us.
Americans have never been mislead or lied to so often, ever before in history.
Natural science recognizes the distinction between organisms that are merely parasitic and those that are parasitoidal: those that not only feed off the host organism but eventually kill it off.
That’s kind of the stage we’re in now.
A few years back, I was standing behind a lady in the checkout line at a supermarket. She had two lobster tails and two big T-bone steaks. I was thinking, “Somebody’s eating good tonight.” She paid for it with food stamps. Then, she went out and got into her new Ford pickup.
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