[cuban leaf]

Food stamps are the modern equivalent of depression era soup lines.

[kearnyirish2]

It is probably more accurate to describe food stamps as the scheduled feedings of farm animals; much of our population has become bipedal livestock with food, clothing, and shelter provided by others’ toils.

Like public education, poverty has become a huge pseudo-industry that keeps the Democratic Party in business. They are both massive wealth re-distribution schemes, and the ONLY economy in real sh!tholes.

[RatRipper]

Couldn’t sell your soup for cash. . . .

[hanamizu]

Food stamps are the modern equivalent of depression era soup lines.

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I get your point, but I think you’re wrong. Soup lines were usually provided by private charity rather than the government. The pictures I’ve seen the participants looked somewhat ashamed at being in the line—they don’t look entitled. And, of course, the soup and bread served as basic nutrition. There weren’t “steak lines” or “lobster lines” and the people being fed weren’t able to trade their soup for cash.