Well this is still the US in spite of the foreign Btard Obozo. Our church has a food bank hand out every Saturday. Been going on for years. Salon is a bunch of leftist twerps who sees us as all mean cruel people, to our fellow men.
It is SUPLIMENTAL nutrition assistance. It is suplimenting the money people pay out of pocket for their own food. It is not supposed to buy every crumb of food that a family eats. Also: since they are now available to be used for fast food and other food establishments a little additional planning should make up the 5%-7% drop in cost.
The SNAP benefits are very generous. They are a gift from the upper and middle classes to the poor and working class. They are by no means a right, even if they are called ‘entitlements’. No one is entitled to other peoples money.
In March 2013, the Washington Post reported that one-third of Woonsocket, Rhode Island’s population used food stamps.
Good.
Maybe some of the lazy slobs who claim they cannot find a job will find work.
I may be softer or more liberal than many but Obama has given food stamps to millions of more people than ever before in American history. Some of whom Definitely do not look like they can’t feed themselves I would not want any genuinely needy people cut off the dole, but from everything I can see there are many UN - needy or able- bodied, and apparently sane , recipients who really should be stricken from the rolls. (In the long run, I would try to transfer welfare back to the states and local governments. It is not a proper federal concern and we can all see how crappily the fed govt is administering our tax money too. Just my two cents worth.
Hunger Games?
March 2013
Food stamp president: Enrollment up 70 percent under Obama
Enrollment in the food stamp program — officially the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — has soared by 70 percent in the years since President Obama first took office, a new report finds.
The government said the recession ended in 2009, The Wall Street Journal reports, but enrollment in the food stamp program didn’t wane, as would be expected in an improving economy. Since 2008, it’s been on a steady rise, The Journal reports.
A record 47.8 million people participate in the program, as of December 2012 — a figure that translates into a 70 percent rise since 2008,
>> Anyone else here old enough to remember when being on aid was looked down upon?
Of course, and this can be turned around once folks remember what it’s like to have self-respect through the dignity of labor.
Svengali is losing his charm.
I was the oldest of 6 hungry brats in a dirt poor family. In the 50s, we had pride and people were looked down on if they received charity. The most my mom every received was a couple of blocks of government cheese, We found was to work together and to make life work out.
I remember when the power was shut off, us kids liked it because it was kinda like camping.
LOL... Nowadays, if the power goes out, I just go start a couple of generators and that powers up most everything we need.
I am a long ways from poor and I don’t want to be poor again, but if it turns out that I must be, it will be fine because I know how to survive it and I would find way to have fun with it. I figure that God was with us then, He will be with us again.
Always typically???
They really said always typically happens the same way.
Funny.
It's not like their taking it from the middle class people who are struggling to feed their own families.
(extreme sarcasm)
A recent IRS inspector general report shows the agency giving out $110 billion to $132 billion in improper ‘Earned Income Tax Credit’ payments in the last decade. In that time period, between 21 and 30 percent of tax credit payments went to people who didn’t qualify for them. That’s 20 Billion per year in fraud right there not counting administration expenses.
A 5 billion cut in SNAP is small potatoes.
They might have to get frozen fish sticks instead of lobster. Yeah, there will be blood in the streets.
Many of those on welfare and/or on food stamps are probably too lazy to riot.
Not suggesting people riot, you know, just suggesting that riots should, I mean could, happen if y'all cut our free stuff.
Riots are great, since we get free food just like gummint programs. They're even better since we get free TVs! /s
I would like to see a real journalist interview some poor food stamp recipient this Friday, get their opinion on how “the man is dissin ‘em”, then follow them to Walmart on black Friday to see how much they spend on Christmas. It’s furr the chirrun.
I am. I had neighbors who had to go on food stamps temporarily years and years ago. They were so embarrassed that they shopped at off hours so no one would see them.
Looks like Sha’Queatha and De’NaShay may be going on a diet