RE: Back in the 1970s, about one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps. Today, about one in every 6.5!

I wonder how many "pro" runners are on food stamps? I bet almost all without a shoe contract are.

True story: my son is going to Northwestern next year and my wife and I don't qualify for financial aid so we'll be paying full freight. What do you think of that?

We are also libtards.

salaries are too low. Compare the distributions of income

and wealth with that of the seventies and you understand why.

yyy wrote:

salaries are too low. Compare the distributions of income

and wealth with that of the seventies and you understand why.

Here you go

This one only went back to 1998, but real wages have been falling since the 80s when we started saying "a rising tide floats all boats".

I'm on food stamps.

elzorrodorito wrote:

I'm on food stamps.

How can you be on food stamps? Your job does not pay you enough???

How can the US dollar still be so strong? I guess that everything is relative. Things are not going so well in most other countries...

However, if you think about it. 1/10 is a complete lose or has some sort of severe physical or mental impairment. Couple that with an aging population ( people that may not have had a severe physical or mental impairment, but now do). A big proportion of the elderly were not successful enough to save up enough before their impairment years. The stats therefore kind of make sense. At all times you would expect that more than 1 person out of 10 would require some type of aid. With the aging population, you expect this number to go up.

1 person out of 10 is successful. The rest fall in the 80 percent...

1 in 10?

Try 1 in 10,000.

That's where all the money and all the power is now.

With dupes like defending this abomination

Klondike5B wrote:

1 in 10?

Try 1 in 10,000.

That's where all the money and all the power is now.

With dupes like defending this abomination

I guess that we have to define "success"

Yes, 1 in 10,000 are super successful... And they own a crazy amount of the wealth (in percentage terms)...

...but 1 in 10 still have a decent amount of success... They are successful lawyers or doctors or top researchers or top tier executives in ranging size of businesses...

That just shows that food stamps are doing their job. The whole point of the food stamp program, TANF, Section 8, etc is to create dependence on the government.

The government is basically like a heroin dealer. The more people they hook, the more power they have. They don't want the number of users to go down. They want everyone to be a user. Print money, dole it out to a public that is addicted to public funds, and the vote will go your way every time.

You're missing a key variable. It's called the internet. Being on food stamps for some May be considered embarrassing. Today anyone can find out how it works or if they qualify without talking to a real person, or asking people they know. In 1960 probably way more people qualified than took advantage. It's also a different time, different work force blend of sex, different rules. You'd have to be an idiot to quote stats like that as if they are comparable. F'tard.

Hnuuhnnhiijn wrote:

Klondike5B wrote:

1 in 10?

Try 1 in 10,000.

That's where all the money and all the power is now.

With dupes like defending this abomination

I guess that we have to define "success"

Yes, 1 in 10,000 are super successful... And they own a crazy amount of the wealth (in percentage terms)...

...but 1 in 10 still have a decent amount of success... They are successful lawyers or doctors or top researchers or top tier executives in ranging size of businesses...

Nonsense. If you are in the 10th percentile you are struggling to maintain a lower middle class lifestyle in the year 2014

You're right. I don't believe them. You are a liar. Just because you read it on the internet, (Yes, I found the nutjob news sources that you read.) doesn't make it true.

Food Stamps are an indirect way to benefit the agriculture industry. The lawmakers from the farm states are some of the biggest supports of the program. Food Stamps are very easy to qualify for. A few years ago thee was a push to get more families involved. They were cut back a bit this year, but a single person making less than 30,000 a year could get 189 per month.

Most people on food stamps are very religous

USA STATS U WONT BELIEVE wrote:Ten years ago, the number of women in the U.S. that had jobs outnumbered the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin. But now the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps actually exceeds the number of women that have jobs.

Are you making this sh*t up? Your "facts" are made up.

Total number of food stamp recipients (men AND women): 40 million

Number of women employed: 72.4 million

Teenager wrote:

Most people on food stamps are very religous

Most poor people are very religious because they have little education and little hope in this present world. Most poor people also spend a lot on lotteries and gambling hoping for a way out of their poverty.

The root of the problem started with "The Great Society" programs in the 1960s. Every problem they were supposed to eliminate ended up growing because they fostered dependence on Government. Poverty, illegitimate birth rates, dropout rates, disability rates, etc all increased. It was truly a disaster. And we will forever pay for it.

exthrower wrote:

There used to be shame involved when a person was leeching off society, now, there's so many it's passe.

I think this is a big factor. People used to have pride in taking care of themselves/their family. Whether it was accepting welfare, food stamps, allowing your home to fall into foreclosure, filing for bankruptcy, etc, people did everything possible to avoid these situations. Unfortunately, that isn't true today.

When I was a freshman in college, I had a professor who predicted the collapse of the middle class. He attributed the collapse on the growing need for "intellectual power" vs. less of a need for "physical strength". In particular, men used to be able to graduate from high school, go to work at the railroad, steel plant, etc. performing physical duties that required very little intelligence, but paid very well. However, the world changed and those with either little ability to learn - or too lazy - would fall further and further behind. Of course, the professor had no idea the U.S. would allow millions of illegals to cross the border and speed the process along at warp speed. However, his premise was correct.