USA on Food Stamps
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- GeorgesII1
*bump, because nobody answered where I could get some!!
- version30
“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.”
E. E. Cummings
- GeorgesII0
soon
- version30
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle”
Winston Churchill
- akrokdesign0
isn't this the side effect of all the outsourcing etc. we are hardly making anything in the states any more.
- you make some classic right-wing conservative racist homophobes pretty well.airey
- LOOK THEIR IS NO FUCKING JOBS!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK DO I CARE WHO SAID WHAT OR WHAT, THEN.akrokdesign
- THANKS TO ALL BIG FUCKING COMPANIES WHO MOVED THE PRODUCTIONS.akrokdesign
- airey0
food stamps are the new black.
- Knuckleberry0
I was going to write this long post about the state of the USA, blah blah blah too much money for war blah blah blah not enough for education blah blah blah socialism, yes please (i mean that its not some poke at Obama, because I dont think he is a socialist... he is a politician) blah blah blah
- utopian1
"The U.S. should start another war in the Middle East, perhaps with Iran to get the U.S. economy jumped started." - Sarah Palin
- sauce!?
exador1 - You don't happen to have the source of that quote, do you?
That's fucking gold.Super_Black - Fox News I believe!utopian
- O gawd utopian is at it again.FredMcWoozy
- sauce!?
- utopian1
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND BABY JESUS TOO!
- FredMcWoozy0
Actually you can trade the VISA debit cards for diamond ear rings and TV's if you so choose.
- CAPITALISM ROCKS!utopian
- your free market at work!DrBombay
- Haha right? Except it's not free market, it's government. Free market would imprint names on the VISA cards :) so that wouldn't happen.FredMcWoozy
- happen.FredMcWoozy
- wtf visa card are you talking about, food stamps aren't VISADrBombay
- DrBombay0
Ring Ring... Callin Mista Welfare
- PonyBoy1
We're pure fucking evil over here... we hope you all die unless you're white.
- lowimpakt0
it's just another example of moral hazard..
but the moral hazard originating from a few people on food stamps doesn't compare to the moral hazard originating from the bail out of the banks recently or the subsidisation of businesses always.
- ItTango1
what they don't report is that 1/3 of the folks on welfare probably shouldn't be. the system is extremely easy to scam. i know assholes (i wish i had an "unknow button") who are on welfare for no other reason than a severe case of "somethin' fo' nuthin".
then there's the secondary market: selling the stamps for cash so they can buy other shit.
finally there are those who are legitimately on, but getting off is fairly "ham-handed". it's sort of like stepping off of a cliff, nothing gradual about it.
a friend of mine, a single mother, is dealing with that now. after being out of work for over a year and burning through her savings, she finally gave in and applied for food stamps. she found a job last month at about half what she was making previously. boom! no more aid, as though that first paycheck would cover everything.
my wife and i treated her to groceries and school supplies for the little one.
system restart!
- Last line. Wonderful. Good for you.FredMcWoozy
- she didn't want it, we tricked her.ItTango
- Super_Black0
If only the US could be more like Norway... that'd be awesome.
- ukit0
The U.S. has been through recessions like this before, it's a bit premature to say it's dead. I do think Europe has a more sustainable system overall though.
- <--Delusional. What is unemployment in europe? Riots in france last year? remember?FredMcWoozy