[vision-master]

Proverbs 30:8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

[crude_intentions]

Do these statistics count only the people who's names are on the card or does it also count their dependents as well? If it does not include dependents then this number could go much higher.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') record 32.2 million people -- one in every 10 Americans -- received food stamps at the latest count, the government said on Thursday, a reflection of the recession now in its 16th month.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') record 32.2 million people -- one in every 10 Americans -- received food stamps at the latest count, the government said on Thursday, a reflection of the recession now in its 16th month.

[vision-master]

Try the 'erb next time, maybe you will see G-O-D.

[misterno]

Another record in people receiving food stamps

Every month we have a record so who was saying there was recovery????

http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/data.htm
--------------household------persons
Oct 2010 ---20,183,177-------43,201,052
Nov 2010--- 20,404,895----43,596,084
Dec 2010----- 20,668,184---44,082,361
Jan 2011 ---- 20,748,799--44,187,874
Feb 2011----- 20,791,408--44,199,479
Mar 2011 ----- 21,045,909---44,587,275
Apr 2011 ----- 21,071,256 ---44,647,861

[Novus]

The commission to re-elect Obama says there is a recovery. Wall st also says there is a recovery since corporate profits are at all time highs right now. Something is not right in this country when the Democrats get in bed with Wall st. Who is fighting for the little guy.

[Bill Hicks]

Here are some recent thoughts I had on this issue:

http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/201 ... stamp.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')’ve long argued that the untrustworthy and manipulated official unemployment statistics are no more reliable an indicator of what’s going on in the real economy than is the completely rigged Dow Jones Industrial Average. If you want a true picture of what is really happening on Main Street you need look no further than the SNAP figures, which show a tsunami-like surge of people living in abject poverty. The chart also shows that the percentage of Americans receiving food assistance has risen from just 8.7% at the beginning of 2007 to about 14.3% today. Sadly, according to Wikipedia, nearly half of all SNAP recipients are children.

Becoming a food stamp recipient means you have slid all the way down to the lowest rung of the socioeconomic ladder, since in order to qualify you have to have no better than a poverty-level income. More importantly, being reliant upon the SNAP program means that your very survival is dependent upon the ability of the United States Government to service its debt and come up with the $133.12 it sends out to each recipient every month. The overall cost of the program is skyrocketing because of the huge surge in enrollment, and is just one of many factors putting upwards pressure on the federal deficit at a time when the nation's credit card is coming within sight of being maxed out.

It's also an indicator showing why the “debate” going on in Washington right now over lifting the federal debt limit is just so much sound and fury signifying nothing. For while it’s true that our nation’s “leaders" long ago stopped caring about the poor, that is only so long as they can manage to keep them invisible and their plight away from the national spotlight. Let the SNAP payments lapse for a few months and I’ll bet even our lapdog mainstream media might begin to notice when a large number of kids start showing up to school in poor areas looking like Ethiopian famine victims. For this reason alone the debt limit will eventually be raised, unless things really have gone completely off the rails in the nation’s capital.

So here we are, faced with yet another intractable problem that has been made exponentially worse by a feckless national political leadership that has allowed the wealth of the nation to be stripped down and stolen by the greedy elites who finance their campaigns. It was bad enough when huge numbers of blue collar and middle class jobs were being shipped overseas in the name of the corporate bottom line. But now, by driving America to the brink of insolvency they have virtually assured that the day will come in the not too distant future when the SNAP cards will fail to recharge at the beginning of the month. And that will unleash a humanitarian tragedy the likes of which this nation of historical food abundance has never seen before.

[Novus]

Food stamps aren't the reason the deficit is out of control. Problem is human brain can't comprehend the difference between $1 trillion banker bail out package, a $2 trillion war endless war on 3 fronts, and $40 billion spent on the poor. You could completely eliminate all welfare and food stamps and it wouldn't even make a difference in the deficit. Any talk about deficit reduction that doesn't involve cutting the war and wall street is just politically motivated hyperbole.

[Bill Hicks]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'F')ood stamps aren't the reason the deficit is out of control. Problem is human brain can't comprehend the difference between $1 trillion banker bail out package, a $2 trillion war endless war on 3 fronts, and $40 billion spent on the poor. You could completely eliminate all welfare and food stamps and it wouldn't even make a difference in the deficit. Any talk about deficit reduction that doesn't involve cutting the war and wall street is just politically motivated hyperbole.

[rangerone314]

Maybe someday Wall Street will recycle people on food stamps into Soylent Green so the rich can continue to eat.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'P')roblem is human brain can't comprehend the difference between $1 trillion banker bail out package, a $2 trillion war endless war on 3 fronts, and $40 billion spent on the poor.

[TreeFarmer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'P')roblem is human brain can't comprehend the difference between $1 trillion banker bail out package, a $2 trillion war endless war on 3 fronts, and $40 billion spent on the poor.

[Daniel_Plainview]

Food-stamp usage SKYROCKETS by the most in years — a huge jump of 1.1 million — as total usage now tops 14.5% (45.8 million)



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ecause the just announced jump in foodstamp usage of over 1.1 million is entirely out of the blue, and as the chart below shows, is the highest single monthly jump in Foodstamp participation since mid 2009, when eligibility requirements were adjusted. Yes, that's 45.8 million people (obviously an all time record) living on foodstamps which amount to the whopping $133.80 per person (an increase of $0.54 M/M) and $283.65 (an increase of $1.29) per household. Obviously, annualizing the latest monthly rate of 1.1 million people, it means that over 13 million Americans will live on about one third what the cheapest iPad costs in about a year.

[Cog]

Wow.

This is something I've been tracking since 2007 and this number is astounding.

Something it reflects that no other economic data point does, is that the middle class is being absolutely destroyed right now. Because to qualify for the food stamp program, you have to show income and its apparent a lot of those 99 weeker's are ending up right here.

[Cog]

By the way, the program costs for the SNAP program are now roughly 73.5 billion a year. Small change in Washington but increasing steadily.

[Cloud9]

I think the middle class works for government. There is one hardware store and one lumber yard that is not owned by a chain in my county of 100,000.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', ' ')Because to qualify for the food stamp program, you have to show income and its apparent a lot of those 99 weeker's are ending up right here.

[Serial_Worrier]

Let 'em starve. Darwin at work.