Posted on 04/14/2014 10:19:37 AM PDT by SkyPilot
People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau.
In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of Agriculture, there were 46,609,000 people participating in the food stamp program (formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). That contrasts with the 44,059,000 women who worked full-time, year-round in 2012, according to the Census Bureau’s report on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States.
For each woman who worked full-time, year-round in 2012, there was slightly more than 1 other person collecting food stamps.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Gosh, I wonder what happened in 2007-2008. Can someone remind me?
Thanks SkyPilot.
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
good thing Obama gives them free rubbers and pills because they’ll need to work harder to pay for the men..
Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
“2 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”
They discuss politics with Republicans while giving our money to Democrats.
About "70 million" people are receiving good incomes but are also steeped in debt and can't borrow more for big ticket items. Meanwhile,...
More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3005481/posts
What Cooked The World’s Economy?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209313/posts
And...
Here’s the link for the evidence in the information from the “Bank for International Settlements,” as mentioned in the full version of the excerpted article linked above.
http://www.bis.org/publ/otc_hy0805.pdf
...and a quote from it.
“The over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market showed relatively steady growth in the second half of 2007, amid the turmoil in global financial markets. Notional amounts of all categories of OTC contracts rose by 15% to $596 trillion at the end of December (Table 1), following a 24% increase in the first half of the year.1”
China’s imploding US ally (AIG)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084468/posts
AIG: Inquiring Minds Want To Know
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192489/posts
(China)
Fed won’t say who helped by AIG rescue
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200398/posts
Top U.S., European Banks Got $50 Billion in AIG Aid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2201213/posts
China appeals to Washington to safeguard assets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205693/posts
U.S. Federal Reserve to buy up to US$300B long-term Treasury bonds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2209403/posts
Good point.
Yes, contractors, those who do business with the government - all reliant upon tax dollars. Add in another "shadow statistic" to that article.
The Federal Reserve is not a Federal agency as most informed people know. It is a cabal of private bankers, who due to incredible stupidity and corruption, are allowed to print out money and set interest rates.
But the hundreds of Billions of dollars in profits these bankers make via interest payments (that we HAVE to pay each year....or default) is funded by the taxpayers.
The entire financial industry is now dependent on Federal "pumping." Every financial managers, stock broker, and trader is relying (in part) on taxpayer money to keep the magic cow giving milk - or the whole shebang collapses.
Amazing. This was written in 2009 (from the link you posted:
"The basic story line so far is that we are all to blame, including homeowners who bit off more than they could chew, lenders who wrote absurd adjustable-rate mortgages, and greedy investment bankers. Credit derivatives also figure heavily in the plot. Apologists say that these became so complicated that even Wall Street couldn't understand them and that they created "an unacceptable level of risk." Then these blowhards tell us that the bailout will pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the credit arteries and save the patient, which is the world's financial system. It will take time—maybe a year or so—but if everyone hangs in there, we'll be all right. No structural damage has been done, and all's well that ends well. Sorry, but that's drivel. In fact, what we are living through is the worst financial scandal in history. It dwarfs 1929, Ponzi's scheme, Teapot Dome, the South Sea Bubble, tulip bulbs, you name it. Bernie Madoff? He's peanuts."
When it crashes this time, I don't think anyone will be able to pick up the pieces. The world will be looking for anyone to save them. If I were Satan, I would use that occasion to bring the Antichrist on the scene.
That's just silly. Of course, coming from the Village Voice......
Credit derivatives also figure heavily in the plot. Apologists say that these became so complicated that even Wall Street couldn't understand them"
Credit default swaps, if that's what he's whining about, really aren't that complicated.
I bet $1000 that you'll default on your mortgage. 1rudeboy takes the other side of my bet, he thinks you won't default.
You make all your payments, I give 1rudeboy $1000. You default, he gives me $1000.
and that they created "an unacceptable level of risk."
They don't create risk, they just move it around.
But of course it is.
It is a cabal of private bankers, who due to incredible stupidity and corruption, are allowed to print out money and set interest rates.
They only set the overnight rates.
But the hundreds of Billions of dollars in profits these bankers make via interest payments
The Federal Reserve does not make hundreds of billions in profit a year.
(that we HAVE to pay each year....or default)
You only have to pay interest when you borrow money.
is funded by the taxpayers.
It's true, taxpayers are on the hook for debts run up by the idiots in Congress and the White House.
Some of those worthless derivatives likely financed Chinese projects. See my tagline for a clue on tomorrow’s real estate values.
It is not a Federal agency, and does not operate as one. There is no oversight, laws governing it employees are not Federal, and it is accountable to no one but itself. Our government makes arm gestures that it has oversight, but it does not. The Federal Reserve claimed a profit of about $90 Billion last year, but I don’t believe that number. And since the last independent, outside audit of the Fed was, well.......never, neither should you. Our interest payments on the debt are in the six figures of Billions per year.
Feminism’s promise: we are equal to men and don’t need them.
Feminism’s reality: Uncle Sam is my sugar daddy.
SkyPilot: chaplain? I was infantry-related enlisted and only in the Guard except for 13 weeks of initial training at Ft. Leonard Wood.
Thank you for the kind and informative replies. Yes, we’re all to blame. In past generations, Americans saved more. I should have listened more to my grandparents.
On the food stamp issue, quite a few Freepers have mentioned over the past few years that they had no choice but to get the benefits. Here’s the only answer that I’ve found. I’m not on food stamps but not well off for now. It could happen to anyone.
Those of you willing to do so, become more self-sufficient as a hedge against less pay and future periods of unemployment. There are quite a few collaboration efforts that can be found around the Net for building home energy solutions, gardening, making needed tools at home and so on.
Frugality is quite a low tech. science, and some truly surprising things are being done. Work hard, be very frugal and save, when work is available. Put every penny into finding a cheap lot if possible.
Don’t be diverted by the hipster terms often used. For most, they are no more than a cover. Most people involved are trying to get by, save money, avoid trouble with possible shortages and help others to do so (”shortages:” firewood price hikes and scarcities after other energy price hikes, for example). Ruralize, and do it stubbornly. Try, and try again. Don’t let go of that pursuit. Before long, there will be no one to regulate against it.
rocket stove mass heater (very little smoke, very little wood required, safer than wood stoves if properly built and maintained)
http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
$2K Solar Space + Water Heating — One Simple DIY System
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/SpaceHeating/DHWplusSpace/Main.htm
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture
http://www.richsoil.com/sepp-holzer/sepp-holzer-permaculture.jsp
There are also discussion boards for efforts to make castings and many other things.
On prophecies, by the way, there are several older prophecies that mention a trend of folks being deposed to poverty after a period of corruption. So yes, for those willing to do so, old fashioned ways of getting by and even being productive may be worth learning along with some newer ways.
All:
As for defense, there will always be national defense efforts, but we need more of ‘em now than ever. Civilian contractors should also tighten their administration belts and get involved for our nation, before worse times prompt the government to do it for them (see WWII). For one, don’t be fooled by popular propaganda stating that we were more in danger of nuclear exchanges during the ‘60s than today. That danger is becoming far greater each year. We need much smaller government for civilian matters, but much larger portions of our national revenues should also be going to defense.
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