I’m going to get flamed, but in this economy, I am not as prejudiced against people getting help putting food on their tables. This is a depression and unlike the 1930’s we at least have the ability to help people avoid starving. It’s all well and good that families came together in the Great Depression, but a lot of people watched their loved ones starve to death and I don’t see how we should be too begrudging given the bad times we’re in.
In thriving times, yes, I agree, but not in this economy.
You help people who CAN’T help themselves, not people who WON’T help themselves.
This article is about Able Bodied Adults.
As my Father used to say, there is always a Job. It may not be the Job you want and it may not pay you what you think you deserve, but it is a Job none the less.
Yeah the last thing i see around me is starving people.
i get flamed for this all the time. If one reads the article notice they give you numbers then state the law. The article doesn’t say able bodied people without dependents are getting food stamps while not working or while not preparing for work. It simply puts the two in a position so that is the assumption.
I live in NYC. A single person working at Starbucks cannot afford rent and food. The usual rebuttal here, overlooking the fact we are not creating middle class jobs, is oh those jobs are starter jobs. Again, thats in a normal economy. People in rural areas are more or less shielded from the costs of living in a big city.
Most likely at least 30-50% are SCAMMING the system.
Not going to flame you although you are grossly misinformed. This is NOT like the depression. And unlike the depression people now are unwilling to move to find a job.
Certain parts of the country ARE economically depressed others are not and people must be willing to locate where they CAN find a job. Also people must be willing to accept a job that might be “beneath” their expectations.
"One reason for the catastrophic growth in the number of ABAWDs is Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill, which opened the door for states to waive the work provision required of ABAWDs. That work provision mandated that to continue receiving food stamps, after three months of being unemployed ABAWDs must work or perform some type of work activity 20 hours per week."
THIS is the point -- that people who are ablebodied, NOT old, need to maintain a habit of work, the states gave them things to do, (not forced to get jobs, if there aren't any) based on their abilities, rather than just live off the dole almost permanently. That way since they did have to do some work, they had an incentive to look for and find a job. But Obama removed that requirement. This removed the incentive for many to find work.
I don’t know why i even bother posting on these articles. It’s about 99% of the people here are convinced that everyone capable of working can find a job that will pay their bills and feed them. The ability to see outside their own circumstances is totally lacking. We’ll never win back the white house until people start to comprehend what others go through.
Taking money from one person, ultimately, at gunpoint, to give to another person just because that person doesn’t have “enough”, is wrong.
Even if done by government.
“...in this economy, I am not as prejudiced against people getting help putting food on their tables.”
Newbie since Jan. 2. Suspect liberal newbie. WE DON’T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY $80 BILLION in food stamps every year and the amount of money spent that we don’t have will rise every year as long as no effort to work is left out of that law.
“Spending on food stamps now totals somewhere around $80 billion, twice what the number was in Fiscal Year 2008.”
Might as well hasten the crash...
But even if I were to go on foodstamps for any reason whatsoever, I’d continue to get my systems in place to feed my family when the food supply falters.