Posted on 02/16/2013 11:16:40 AM PST by Lorianne
Edited on 02/16/2013 11:34:57 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Two thousand dollars a month. That
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Don't stop there.
Think of tactics to protect yourself and your family.
Anticipate hiding places and defensible positions with escape routes.
Make friends with like minded people and compare notes on tactics and survival methods.
Prepare for the fact that paper money will shortly be worthless.
Prepare for the fact that food will become scarce or even nonexistent.
Prepare for the fact that neighbors will sell you out in a heart beat if they are not like minded.
Prepare to disappear.
Always think and study techniques of self preservation.
why has food stamp costs skyrocketed? perhaps it has to do with the eligibility “standards” -—??????????
surprise
surprise
(NOT!)
the one that got me was her statement that she had to pay for her tortillas and ham with her “own money”.
I read the article as a story without analyzing the author (journalism degree) nor how she got there.
The lady told a story which, for all we know, may be a lie.
I've been on food stamps for about 9mo maybe 15 years ago because we were in hard times and between jobs.
I've (we've) learned to garden and can our food, and I've always been a cheap prick (that's what my brother calls me, anyway .. ) when it comes to buying anything, so I don't relate to Campberll's soups or any name brand anything ... (except minimal salt Wheat Thins .. they are worth the extra money) .. I buy generic and house brand.
“What gives? Decades of research says that lack of education and poverty go hand in hand. The overwhelming majority of food stamp recipients still lack a college degree, but now there’s a surprising subgroup: 1 percent of food stamp recipients have a graduate degree, a number that’s tripled since 2007. “
Gotta love research. correlation without causation.
They think that it’s like the Wizard of Oz conferring a degree upon the scarecrow, that somehow a “degree” keeps you out of poverty, rather than correlating the actual effort, hardship, sustained delayed gratification and hard work required to get a degree that keeps you out of poverty.
So like the Wizard of Oz, universities handed out “degrees” to millions who did not actually earn anything useful.
The way things have been going, this moron will someday look back at these times as being ‘the good old days’.
it does sound like satire, doesn’t it?
$800 for 2 bicycles? They would have been fancy around 1972.
College is, for the most part bulls***.
It is, for 85% of college “students”, a titanic waste of money and time.
The idea that it is a path to some sort of secure employment is idiotic.
Fraternity's and sorority's are places you meet lifetime business contacts
College is where you get hustled into doing stupid things that stay with you for a long time and evil people use against you later in life
College is running away from home in a sanctioned enviornment
If you consider all of that an education ... well then, college IS a place of education.
SNAP Balance: $618.86. I’m rich.
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What is a snap balance?
I hope that isn’t for food. That is $124.00 short of my retirement budget (I don’t have a mortgage) for everything including food for just myself.
SNAP Balance: $618.86. I’m rich.
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What is a snap balance?
I hope that isn’t for food. That is $124.00 short of my retirement budget (I don’t have a mortgage) for everything including food for just myself.
I understand. The difference however between you and them is that you git off them. They will never. They will clamor and whine for more while sitting on their ass.
That was from when GWB was President.
If she doesn’t have money and the bikes are unused, she should sell the bikes for money.
SNAP no longer takes wealth into account, just income.
You might enjoy this podcast:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/mulligan_on_red.html
“The fedgov is like that family in 2007 riding a wave of false prosperity based on maxxed out credit cards and helocs on a house with negative equity.”
You’re right, I was in DC last October and saw the White House for the first time in my life.
Sadly, it looked like a swanky check cashing operation to me, you know the ones where a guy goes in and gives a post-dated check for $100.00, and they hand hime $60.00 cash, minus the fee for the two week loan.
Only we’re the ones paying the fee and the loan....
Thanks for that info.
The new Medicaid eligibility requirements under Obamacare also won’t take into about assets, just income. You an even have more than one house, lots of cars other things. As long as they are paid for so you don’t have to have the income to pay them off, you can be eligible for Medicaid if you make under a certain income.
Pretty good deal if you have lots of assets but low income.
Take a listen to this. There’s also a transcript:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/04/autor_on_disabi.html
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