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Burt Gummer User ID: 29696048 United States 12/13/2012 09:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The number of Americans enrolled in the government’s food stamp program has risen to surpass the previous month’s record. With 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for food stamps in September, the total has reached yet another all-time record. Quoting: JUST HERE The monthly increase in those enrolled in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was the highest since May 2011 and topped off numbers that were already dire. In August 421 thousand more Americans became eligible for food stamps and together with September's numbers more than a million Americans officially became poor. In total, there were more than three times as many new food stamp recipients than new jobs. The increase in food stamp eligible Americans came at a time when a campaigning Obama administration proudly reiterated the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report that private companies hired 201,000 new workers in August and the service sector added 185,000 workers. But at an average cost of $134.29 per month per food stamp recipient, the federal government is increasingly spending more to tackle poverty. “It is unclear just which atmospheric phenomenon will get the blame for this unprecedented surge in poverty, which comes at a time when the pre-election economic data euphoria was adamant that the US economy was on an escape velocity to utopia,” Tyler Durden wrote for Zero Hedge. Rising from 47.1 million food stamp-eligible Americans in August to 47.7 million in September, it is possible that the US the number of recipients will reach 50 million before the end of the year. [link to rt.com] |
JUST HERE (OP) User ID: 25610447 United States 12/13/2012 09:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The number of Americans enrolled in the government’s food stamp program has risen to surpass the previous month’s record. With 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for food stamps in September, the total has reached yet another all-time record. Quoting: JUST HERE The monthly increase in those enrolled in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was the highest since May 2011 and topped off numbers that were already dire. In August 421 thousand more Americans became eligible for food stamps and together with September's numbers more than a million Americans officially became poor. In total, there were more than three times as many new food stamp recipients than new jobs. The increase in food stamp eligible Americans came at a time when a campaigning Obama administration proudly reiterated the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report that private companies hired 201,000 new workers in August and the service sector added 185,000 workers. But at an average cost of $134.29 per month per food stamp recipient, the federal government is increasingly spending more to tackle poverty. “It is unclear just which atmospheric phenomenon will get the blame for this unprecedented surge in poverty, which comes at a time when the pre-election economic data euphoria was adamant that the US economy was on an escape velocity to utopia,” Tyler Durden wrote for Zero Hedge. Rising from 47.1 million food stamp-eligible Americans in August to 47.7 million in September, it is possible that the US the number of recipients will reach 50 million before the end of the year. [link to rt.com] :glp sign: |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7111634 United States 12/13/2012 10:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 34% of Puerto Rico is on Food Stamps [link to www.trivisonno.com] "So, in addition to the 46.7 million Americans on food stamps, we can add another 1.35 million Puerto Ricans, pushing the grand total to 48 million. For more details, see the “Puerto Rico” section on my food-stamps page."..a slight accounting error.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25332017 United States 12/13/2012 10:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The number of Americans enrolled in the government’s food stamp program has risen to surpass the previous month’s record. With 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for food stamps in September, the total has reached yet another all-time record. Quoting: JUST HERE The monthly increase in those enrolled in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was the highest since May 2011 and topped off numbers that were already dire. In August 421 thousand more Americans became eligible for food stamps and together with September's numbers more than a million Americans officially became poor. In total, there were more than three times as many new food stamp recipients than new jobs. The increase in food stamp eligible Americans came at a time when a campaigning Obama administration proudly reiterated the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report that private companies hired 201,000 new workers in August and the service sector added 185,000 workers. But at an average cost of $134.29 per month per food stamp recipient, the federal government is increasingly spending more to tackle poverty. “It is unclear just which atmospheric phenomenon will get the blame for this unprecedented surge in poverty, which comes at a time when the pre-election economic data euphoria was adamant that the US economy was on an escape velocity to utopia,” Tyler Durden wrote for Zero Hedge. Rising from 47.1 million food stamp-eligible Americans in August to 47.7 million in September, it is possible that the US the number of recipients will reach 50 million before the end of the year. [link to rt.com] :hopechg: That line of people is exactly what it would look like if food stamps wasnt feeding all the people |
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Burt Gummer User ID: 29696048 United States 12/13/2012 10:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The number of Americans enrolled in the government’s food stamp program has risen to surpass the previous month’s record. With 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for food stamps in September, the total has reached yet another all-time record. Quoting: JUST HERE The monthly increase in those enrolled in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was the highest since May 2011 and topped off numbers that were already dire. In August 421 thousand more Americans became eligible for food stamps and together with September's numbers more than a million Americans officially became poor. In total, there were more than three times as many new food stamp recipients than new jobs. The increase in food stamp eligible Americans came at a time when a campaigning Obama administration proudly reiterated the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report that private companies hired 201,000 new workers in August and the service sector added 185,000 workers. But at an average cost of $134.29 per month per food stamp recipient, the federal government is increasingly spending more to tackle poverty. “It is unclear just which atmospheric phenomenon will get the blame for this unprecedented surge in poverty, which comes at a time when the pre-election economic data euphoria was adamant that the US economy was on an escape velocity to utopia,” Tyler Durden wrote for Zero Hedge. Rising from 47.1 million food stamp-eligible Americans in August to 47.7 million in September, it is possible that the US the number of recipients will reach 50 million before the end of the year. [link to rt.com] That line of people is exactly what it would look like if food stamps wasnt feeding all the people When the economy crashes...and it will... ...probably over this new derivatives and money printing bubble....that will be the SOUP LINE since the government printed money will be USELESS. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29635112 Ireland 12/13/2012 11:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stupid question... But what is SNAP? Is that the real name of food stamps? Or is it another program? Please educate me. Quoting: Jervis and V-Honey Supplemental nutrition assistance program... the NEW and Improved version of FOODSTAMPS!. it comes on a debit card that gets recharged monthly. I make roughly 20K a year.... i own my home, own all of my vehicles and don't ask anyone for a fucking thing. i hunt my meat and grow a garden. Fuck these useless eaters. I had a spinal cord injury in 1987.. i am not fuckin whining, crying poormouth. I work as much as i can and have real skills that I supplement with. Shut that shit off all of it. fuckin parasites will figure out how to eat when they have to. bring the pain, POS lib voters.. let em starve. I for one am tired of supporting generational fucking sloth and entitlement mentality. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20566260 United States 12/13/2012 11:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stupid question... But what is SNAP? Is that the real name of food stamps? Or is it another program? Please educate me. Quoting: Jervis and V-Honey Supplemental nutrition assistance program... the NEW and Improved version of FOODSTAMPS!. it comes on a debit card that gets recharged monthly. I make roughly 20K a year.... i own my home, own all of my vehicles and don't ask anyone for a fucking thing. i hunt my meat and grow a garden. Fuck these useless eaters. I had a spinal cord injury in 1987.. i am not fuckin whining, crying poormouth. I work as much as i can and have real skills that I supplement with. Shut that shit off all of it. fuckin parasites will figure out how to eat when they have to. bring the pain, POS lib voters.. let em starve. I for one am tired of supporting generational fucking sloth and entitlement mentality. So snap is a debit card like? do you get this and a food stamp card? or you just get the snap card? What all do they give you? I never really understand how it all works, just know its income based, and that you get assistance at the beginning of each month. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29635112 Ireland 12/13/2012 11:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stupid question... But what is SNAP? Is that the real name of food stamps? Or is it another program? Please educate me. Quoting: Jervis and V-Honey Supplemental nutrition assistance program... the NEW and Improved version of FOODSTAMPS!. it comes on a debit card that gets recharged monthly. I make roughly 20K a year.... i own my home, own all of my vehicles and don't ask anyone for a fucking thing. i hunt my meat and grow a garden. Fuck these useless eaters. I had a spinal cord injury in 1987.. i am not fuckin whining, crying poormouth. I work as much as i can and have real skills that I supplement with. Shut that shit off all of it. fuckin parasites will figure out how to eat when they have to. bring the pain, POS lib voters.. let em starve. I for one am tired of supporting generational fucking sloth and entitlement mentality. So snap is a debit card like? do you get this and a food stamp card? or you just get the snap card? What all do they give you? I never really understand how it all works, just know its income based, and that you get assistance at the beginning of each month. I get nothing.. the LEECHES on the other hand get their debit cards recharged monthly to buy what they want.. i watched some leeches pull the old "Ill buy your groceries" shit the other day. Followed some guy to the check out, paid for his shit with the card and then he gave them money.. which they promptly spent on booze and cigarettes. it was all i could do not to shoot them in the face. Its not INCOME based.. it is NO income based. From what I have seen there is SNAP.. the food card. Then WIC which is more cash for food for kids Then housing assistance, section 8 and full paid. then they get a free cellphone, gas vouchers and even fuckin diapers. all of it on our dime. fuckin parasites. |
Doomalicious User ID: 1376927 United States 12/13/2012 11:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Santa hat is so you Chip! SMILE...you're not as stupid as they think you are! "Once a government is committed to the principal of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in terror" - Harry S Truman "The single most inspiring source for us is the human struggle." Jared Leto “Money, without brains, always is dangerous. Properly used, it is the most important essential of civilization.” - Napoleon Hill “Failures see the hole in the donut, but do not see the donut around the hole.” - Napoleon Hill “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” ― Milton Friedman Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. - Samuel Johnson |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24152885 Canada 12/13/2012 11:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Officially poor? Does that mean they moved into a home with A/C, washer and dryer, two color TVs with cable or satellite service and an XBOX? "Data from the Department of Energy and other agencies show that the average poor family, as defined by Census officials: - Lives in a home that is in good repair, not crowded, and equipped with air conditioning, clothes washer and dryer, and cable or satellite TV service. - Prepares meals in a kitchen with a refrigerator, coffee maker and microwave as well as oven and stove. - Enjoys two color TVs, a DVD player, VCR and — if children are there — an Xbox, PlayStation, or other video game system. - Had enough money in the past year to meet essential needs, including adequate food and medical care." [link to www.nationalreview.com] Hell, I'm not even poor and I still live in a rented apartment (by choice, housing in my city is very overpriced and I'd never pay what they want for a condo here) with a communal laundry room. What is described above would be a step UP in standard of living for me in many ways. |
Saddletramp User ID: 812002 Puerto Rico 12/13/2012 11:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll be getting EBT cards soon...It will be an EBT Recovery!!! Obama EBT Recovery It's Obama EBT Recovery, a big ol' party fo you an me; We suckin' da tit of the one percent, doncha know some pink person gonna pay my rent; In this Obama EBT Recovery. It's Obama EBT Recovery, send the middle class the bill fo you an me; You know workin' a job's fo fools, stupid pinky jus our tools; These days in Obama EBT Recovery. It's Obama EBT Recovery, money fo 40's fo you an me; Welfare done gave me a vota registration, gonna save this here nation; With this Obama EBT Recovery. It's Obama EBT Recovery, Obama phones fo you an me; Call my babies up an tell em not to pout, mamma be back when dat money run out; Party on in Obama EBT Recovery. It's Obama EBT Recovery, they even givin' that Social Security money to you an me; I think I'm hearin' voices in my head, better get's on that disability bread; Crazy about Obama EBT Recovery. It's Obama EBT Recovery, they even givin' technology to you an me; They better prints us some mo money, I need's some iPads fo my baby honey's; Got my number in Obama EBT Recovery. It's Obama EBT Recovery, better than 40 acre and a mule fo you an me; That Obama better not let us down, we'll burn this motherfucker to the groun'; USA on fire in Obama EBT Recovery... Copyright, me...REPOST AT WILL!!! "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 21277120 United States 12/13/2012 11:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Bottom up....top down....inside out." ~Van Jones (Communist) The "inside out" in the "middle class" which is HATED by the Commies. This was applied in Venezuela. I suggest people watch. [link to www.youtube.com] |
SFC_Swede User ID: 26708534 United States 12/14/2012 12:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The number of Americans enrolled in the government’s food stamp program has risen to surpass the previous month’s record. With 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for food stamps in September, the total has reached yet another all-time record. Quoting: JUST HERE The monthly increase in those enrolled in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was the highest since May 2011 and topped off numbers that were already dire. In August 421 thousand more Americans became eligible for food stamps and together with September's numbers more than a million Americans officially became poor. In total, there were more than three times as many new food stamp recipients than new jobs. The increase in food stamp eligible Americans came at a time when a campaigning Obama administration proudly reiterated the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report that private companies hired 201,000 new workers in August and the service sector added 185,000 workers. But at an average cost of $134.29 per month per food stamp recipient, the federal government is increasingly spending more to tackle poverty. “It is unclear just which atmospheric phenomenon will get the blame for this unprecedented surge in poverty, which comes at a time when the pre-election economic data euphoria was adamant that the US economy was on an escape velocity to utopia,” Tyler Durden wrote for Zero Hedge. Rising from 47.1 million food stamp-eligible Americans in August to 47.7 million in September, it is possible that the US the number of recipients will reach 50 million before the end of the year. [link to rt.com] SERVICE SECTOR, read minimum wage/low wage jobs. Thats what America has become. They keep talking about the divide in America...and the real divide now is you either can work in the service sector for serf wages, or the professional sector and fare better. Gone are the days of graduating high school, getting into a trade or manufacturing/industrial job, working your way up the ladder and earning a middle class wage. Those jobs have either been lost to illegals in the trades, or out sourcing to foreign nations. Thats all that is left unless you have an idea to start your own business that provides a service people want. And of course you could go into that debt ridden and explosively expensive college education route to make it into the "professional class". Last Edited by SFC_Swede on 12/14/2012 12:05 AM "Problem solved, Problem staying solved...Rangers lead the Way" Action Figure Therapy "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin |