Food Stamps are the bread line!
The bread line is now over 40 million people long, just because you don't see it on the corner, doesn't mean it isn't there.
The politicians couldn't make it go away, but they were successful at hiding it.
Posted on 08/22/2011 10:16:25 AM PDT by markomalley
Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son.
Saucedo, who earns $9.70 an hour for about 26 hours a week and lives with her mother, is one of the many Americans who survive because of government handouts in what has rapidly become a food stamp nation.
Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That's an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses.
At the same time, the cost doubled to reach $68 billion in 2010 -- more than a third of the amount the U.S. government received in corporate income tax last year -- which means the program has started to attract the attention of some Republican lawmakers looking for ways to cut the nation's budget deficit.
While there are clearly some cases of abuse by people who claim food stamps but don't really need them, for many Americans like Saucedo there is little current alternative if they are to put food on the table while paying rent and utility bills.
"It's kind of sad that even though I'm working that I need to have government assistance. I have asked them to please put me on full-time so I can have benefits," said the 32-year-old.
She's worked at Wal-Mart for nine months, and applied for food stamps as soon as her probation ended. She said plenty of her colleagues are in the same situation.
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It’s wealth redistribution disguised as government empathy.
How many food stamp recipients actually have their kids receive most of their meals at school cafeterias?
I recently read that some schools will now serve free meals to all students to avoid any stigma that may attach to the handouts.
Many schools now feed almost all, or all, students at least two meals a day.
Some serve two meals plus snacks.
Some serve three meals a day.
Some serve meals 7 days a week.
Some serve 2 or 3 meals daily even when school is not in session.
Just another way to use handouts to inculcate reliance on government starting with toddlers attending Head Start right up to college, then on to a government job for life.
You’re wrong.
The People’s Republic of Kalifornia recently clamped down on EBT cards when they found them being used in casinos in Las Vegas and on cruise ships.
With a little fraud, the parasite class has chance at a pretty good lifestyle.
The problem is people get used to these entitlements and don't want to do what it takes to get off. I don't begrudge people who really need them, but I do think we took a wrong turn years ago by starting welfare and so much of this.
I get torn about the more decent illegal aliens, but I think what country could Americans who were poverty-stricken illegally enter and get food stamps, put up in housing and education? Or steal an identity or forged papers to get a job. Forgery worked during WWII for some, but I wouldn't count on it today in other countries. I know if you travel in a socialist country and get injured or sick, you may or may not get taken care of gratus by their socialized medicine. Maybe a family might help you if you pitched in and helped and had a marketable skill. But word would get out, you'd be found out, and I don't know one country that woudln't boot you right out but ours.
Liberals don't seem to mind footing the bill for all this, not the pols but the supporters with means. I don't understand it. Do they have such generous hearts that they want to take care of the whole world and put out economy in the crapper, then blame conservatives for it?
Some of us conservatives have hearts, too, although some of us had to learn a lesson in a very hard way. Charity begins at home. And what it means to be an enabler.
“Welfare and programs that provide benefits to lower wage earners now total $930 billion per year and climbing.”
If we cut $930 billion in spending we would virtually eliminate our budget deficit. This sounds like a much more politically popular way to reduce the deficit than cutting social security and medicare. Why haven’t the Republicans been pushing these cuts instead?
you forgot...
the shiney chrome rims, fancy run flat tires, loud booming speakers, obnoxious music from many different CDs, gold teeth, weaves, long finger nails...
have you ever seen some of the “finger nailed weaved up” women trying to run the EBT card thru a machine and type in their code...the
CLAWS they have on their finger tips have rendered them
PHYSICALLY DISABLED!!!!!!!
With a little fraud, the parasite class has chance at a pretty good lifestyle.
It’s over. Last taxpayer leaving the state please turn off the lights.
The People’s Republic of Kalifornia recently clamped down on EBT cards when THE MEDIA found them being used in casinos in Las Vegas and on cruise ships.
There, fixed it
Hard to believe, in 2011 they still pay 9 bucks and change an hour...That's freaking nuts.
Food Stamps are the bread line!
The bread line is now over 40 million people long, just because you don't see it on the corner, doesn't mean it isn't there.
The politicians couldn't make it go away, but they were successful at hiding it.
thanks to the endless breeding and generational welfare of 14% of America still looking for the 40 acres and a mule...
white America’s ENDEAVORS of putting rockets into space, visiting Mars, and other frontiers that lead to jobs, science and JOBS!!!!
have been given up to support parasites..
destroy NASA to throw more good money at thankless mau mauing welfare parasites...
They pay 9 bucks an hour in 2011? And she's a supervisor?
Good grief!
Which they are still being used at fast foods and gas station snack shops. They seem to be adding to the idiocy
No one has the political courage to push for cuts in welfare and medicaid. An articled posted a couple of weeks ago showed that the unfunded liability for medicaid dwarfed the same for medicare and SS.
But the only thing that can ever solve that without causing mass riots and destruction is decent paying jobs that people can live on without the government payouts.
I’m afraid so. Problem is, this issue is nationwide. And the UK just showed us what happens when the parasite class get mad because someone cut down on their pie.
Many folks on food stamps have no concept of the following:
1) Coupons
2) Buying on sale
3) Budgeting
4) Substituting hamburger for steak
5) Cooking rather than buying microwavable pre-processed food
6) Eliminating luxuries—soda, ice cream,chips
7) Tupperware for lunch at work rather than McDonalds
I could go on forever...
You are too kind. There is A LOT of fraud with this. My nephew who works checkout at a grocery store points out that the "food" gets paid for with Food Stamps, and the alcohol, beer, cigarettes, lottery tickets then gets rung up seperately and paid for in cash. Is extremely common.
I see more EBT cards used in gas stations than at grocery stores. They live on junk food bought at 50% higher prices from a quickie mart. Meanwhile there are hardworking mexicans, southeast asians, and africans working 70+ hours per week and buying staples in bulk from various ethnic markets at very low prices. They eat very very well for not much money.
I’ve been saying for years food stamps need to be limited to what you can buy. I think they should just get the basic staples...beans, rice, milk, eggs, bread, butter, cooking oil, flour, sugar, salt...and not much more than that. Let them learn to cook from scratch.
That's an unchallenged lie. The total cost to the taxpayers is triple that. The $68 billion figure is just the total that makes it onto the EBT cards, as if there was no government overhead, advertising, black limousines, bloated salaries and pensions. As a rule of thumb half of all wealth that passes through the government beast is destroyed.
“Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren’t enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son”
Yes they are. This reminds me of how, in the rare case that a budget is ever cut, governments immediately rid themselves of the stuff its citizens actually need, like police and fire fighters. No doubt this mother can’t pay for something, but it’s not food. This article and liars everywhere highlight food for the obvious reason that a mother and child starving is the worst possible outcome of low wages they can imagine.
It’s also the least likely outcome, given how obvious it is that people need food more than anything short of air and water. Any mother prioritizing shelter and clothing—let alone cable tv—over sustenance is a monster as well as criminal. But outlandish stories sell best. As someone once said:
“[The credulous man] finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are, the easier they pass with him; but he never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.”
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