Food Stamp Explosion

Concerned For America wrote:

What is the solution?

Eliminating food stamp abuse would be a start...

What a joke.

99% of food stamp recipients are obese. 99%.

I clicked the thread hoping for a literal explosion, but all I got was a figurative one. Bummer.

I get them. Quit my dead end job ands started my own business a few months ago, and the extra assistance has been a big help while revenue has been slowly trickling in.

And I am thin.

So count me as a non-lazy, non-obese person on food stamps.

Glad to know as part of your business plan you factored in us paying for your food.

Concerned For America wrote:

Last month, 42.9 million people in the United States were on food stamps.

How did our private economy get to the point where 42.9 million people need food assistance on a monthly basis?

What is the solution?

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Start taxing the uber rich. Take a look at what the tax rates on federal income tax brackets and the capital gains tax in the 195os while our economy soared and we had plenty of dough for education, infrastructure.

Combine that with cutting 2/3rds of our war machine budget and put Israel off the dole while we are at it and this country could return to economic greatness

Glad to know as part of your business plan you factored in us paying for your food.

Thanks! Not like the taxes I paid at for the past 8 years of crap work counted at all, huh?

Your perspective is an interesting one. I never considered people with a fledgling business being on food stamps, but I guess you are not alone.

Concerned For America wrote:

Your perspective is an interesting one. I never considered people with a fledgling business being on food stamps, but I guess you are not alone.

some graduate students too.

in related news, obese welfare "queens" driving cadillacs are not a significant portion of recipients.

a large portion of recipients are whites in appalachia and blacks in the south.

perhaps the most interesting part of the linked interactive map is the change since 2007 tab. (the linked map is a little more than a year old; i haven't looked for a more recent version). that map shows that most of the increase has taken place in regions hardest hit by the real estate bubble bursting - florida, arizona, nevada and atlanta; as well as the midwestern manufacturing states - wisconsin and ohio (i suppose michigan was already in dire straits by 2007).

Since we are at war, we have to make sure EVERY American is well fed and can protect our country from foreign enemies.

One of my classmates and friend in medical school is on foodstamps. His situation is no different than the rest of us who have taken out loans, in fact his are significantly less since he recieves minorty scholarships. The thought of applying for foodstamps never crossed the rest of our minds and I know even if it had our parents would be furious with us for accepting them. It's just a mindset where inner city kids who grow up around these handouts see nothing out of the ordinary about receiving them.

A few words from Walter Williams:

Moral or Immoral Government

Immorality in government lies at the heart of our nation's problems. Deficits, debt and runaway government are merely symptoms. What's moral and immoral conduct can be complicated, but needlessly so. I keep things simple and you tell me where I go wrong.

My initial assumption is that we each own ourselves. I am my private property and you are yours. If we accept the notion that people own themselves, then it's easy to discover what forms of conduct are moral and immoral. Immoral acts are those that violate self-ownership. Murder, rape, assault and slavery are immoral because those acts violate private property. So is theft, broadly defined as taking the rightful property of one person and giving it to another.

If it is your belief that people do not belong to themselves, they are in whole or in part the property of the U.S. Congress, or people are owned by God, who has placed the U.S. Congress in charge of managing them, then all of my observations are simply nonsense.

Let's look at some congressional actions in light of self-ownership. Do farmers and businessmen have a right to congressional handouts? Does a person have a right to congressional handouts for housing, food and medical care?

First, let's ask: Where does Congress get handout money? One thing for sure, it's not from the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus nor is it congressmen reaching into their own pockets. The only way for Congress to give one American one dollar is to first, through the tax code, take that dollar from some other American. It must forcibly use one American to serve another American. Forcibly using one person to serve another is one way to describe slavery. As such, it violates self-ownership.

because $200 a month in food stamps will only buy you food lacking in nutrition. not shut the hades up ya danged reptilian spawn!

Old Fogey wrote:

What a joke.

99% of food stamp recipients are obese. 99%.

no, eliminating the abuse of our economic system by banks would be a great start.let's see: food stamps, cost, several billionslet's see: banks tanking the global financial system, cost, trillions1 billion is 1000 millions1 trillion is 1000 billionscomprende compadre?

biggus dickus wrote:

Concerned For America wrote:

What is the solution?

Eliminating food stamp abuse would be a start...

Sgt Clawhammer wrote:

no, eliminating the abuse of our economic system by banks would be a great start.

let's see: food stamps, cost, several billions

let's see: banks tanking the global financial system, cost, trillions

1 billion is 1000 millions

1 trillion is 1000 billions

comprende compadre?

biggus dickus wrote:

Eliminating food stamp abuse would be a start...

I don't get your logic....and what is the primary reason for banks losing money....stupid people that borrowed money that they could not pay back, went broke and are now on food stamps. So what's the larger core issue, stupid people or evil banks? I say stupid people!

Whenever I am behind someone in the checkout lane and the pull out that LINK card I get very judgmental about what they are buying. Yesterday the woman had about 20 bottles of Snapple. I don't say anything, but you can still call me an asshole.

On the other hand...

My formerly unemployed friend had them, he now has a job, the card still had some value, we got a nice tenderloin to throw on the grill when watching a game.

Taxpayers are ripped off for 1000 times more money for Farm Subsidies an unnecessary communist program put in place to get votes. The Free Enterprise System should apply to farms like it does everywhere else in society. No more communist Farm Subsidies.

Lorenzo, I always like you, but today you've crossed over to the super pendejo column.

You started fine talking about morality and that is super duper mega important. I'm a big fan of it.

So we know, how roads can diverge greatly depending on where you start. And friend, you just drove off into a big o' bog of pig poop.

See, your theory is logical onto itself, hermetically sealed as it were. Yours is an ugly barbarian knot-headed version where people are left in the streets to starve. Ugly, eh? Aren't you ashamed of yourself? You should be.

Let me offer you a sweeter vision: we are responsible for ourselves, and for our neighbor. We don't just step over someone down on the street. Sure, it costs a little extra, but the alternative is to be inhuman, and baby, I am gloriously, magnificently human, king of the animal kingdom baby, and yet, I, like our primates, chimpanzees, do still sympathy! The praying mantis does not!

Question: are conservatives and Republican's insects?

It's not an idle question.

Perhaps you are part of an alien invasion force that will suck our life sustaining juices!

But I digress...

Just cause I'm mean don't mean I have to be noble all the time. I'll share a little secret with you. At night I pray that all you selfish guys wind up on the bottom.

Yep, I sure do. You know why? So, you can see first hand how life is unfair and bootstrapping isn't always possible. I want this so reality can sink in, and so the bourgeois Anglo conservative fantasy can face itself in all its horror.

But that's just a fantasy of mine: truth is, I still prefer helping out even those who would deny help to others. But that's just me...and millions like me who I hope will have the courage to start shoving conservatives heads in the cold water. I am the face of new Liberal. Fear the bright light of goodness you evil vampires sucking at society!

PS Only part of this was directed at you Lorenzo. Carry on!

@ Biggus DickusThe financial lobby fought for the deregulation that allowed those loans to be made. The financial industry looked the other way when making those loans because the CMO business was so profitable. Get it, dickus pendejo?

biggus dickus wrote:

Eliminating food stamp abuse would be a start...

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I don't get your logic....and what is the primary reason for banks losing money....stupid people that borrowed money that they could not pay back, went broke and are now on food stamps. So what's the larger core issue, stupid people or evil banks? I say stupid people![/quote]