[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'L')et 'em starve. Darwin at work.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('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.

[Sixstrings]

Ohhhh.. this isn't good.. foodstamp use DOUBLED in Alabama in just one month:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')igging into the numbers reveals something pecuiliar: virtually the entire surge in monthly SNAP participation is due to one state alone: Alabama, which saw those living on foodstamps jump from 868K to 1.762MM. That's 36% of Alabama's population. Is this merely a grand rehearsal for the Jefferson County bankruptcy? Did the state see a mass surge in foodstamp use as hundreds of thousands are trying to game the system in advance of what will be an apic Chapter 9? And if yes, what does that mean for all the other states which will promptly follow in the footsteps of Jefferson County, and for US foodstamp participation?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/food-stamp-use-surges-most-years-alabama-foodstamp-recipients-double-may

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'O')hhhh.. this isn't good.. foodstamp use DOUBLED in Alabama in just one month:

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Foodstamp use has been creeping up, but doubling in just a month is very anomalous. What the heck happened in Alabama.. there wasn't a natural disaster..

Also I wonder whether so much food stamp use inflates the cost of food, making it even harder for the working poor to buy food and then you get a vicious cycle with more and more on foodstamps, with foodstamps themselves fueling inflation.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('the48thronin', 'H')MMM no natural disaster? HMMMM lets see 150 tornados some on the ground for over 100 miles... over 10,000 homes demolished in one day... nope you are right, nothing unusual happened there!

[the48thronin]

yes

[dohboi]

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2011/08/us-becomes-food-stamp-nation-15-percent.html
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')
Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son.

Saucedo, who earns $9.70 an hour for about 26 hours a week and lives with her mother, is one of the many Americans who survive because of government handouts in what has rapidly become a food stamp nation.

Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That's an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses.

At the same time, the cost doubled to reach $68 billion in 2010 -- more than a third of the amount the U.S. government received in corporate income tax last year

[nobodypanic]

what we have here is a means of subsidizing american business.

you see theoretically wages cannot drop below the level necessary for the reproduction of variable capital (the workers), as the labor force would simply perish. this is a physical limitation to the intensity of exploitation. however, if the government makes up the short-fall, then the rate of exploitation can go beyond this physical limit and business can generate more surplus value than would otherwise be possible. it's a response to the declining rate of profit and an attempt to make accumulation once again possible.

[babystrangeloop]

"Genna Saucedo"? What kind of American is "Genna Saucedo"? Some lazy foreigner no doubt. She(?) needs to learn how to work harder, much harder--then she wouldn't need food stamps.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('babystrangeloop', '&')quot;Genna Saucedo"? What kind of American is "Genna Saucedo"? Some lazy foreigner no doubt. She(?) needs to learn how to work harder, much harder--then she wouldn't need food stamps.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nobodypanic', 'w')hat we have here is a means of subsidizing american business.

you see theoretically wages cannot drop below the level necessary for the reproduction of variable capital (the workers), as the labor force would simply perish. this is a physical limitation to the intensity of exploitation.

[prajeshbhat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'G')osh. Again?! For the last time , workers live in China and other third world countries. (most of the) People in America are redundant, they pretend to be busy at best so they can get some of the stuff they did not make.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('prajeshbhat', 'T')he people is America that you are calling redundant, had no say in the decision making process when some geniuses decided their jobs should be outsourced to low wage poor countries.

[prajeshbhat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'O')f course they did, no one forced them to go for the lowest price always. In fact, people told them they were killing their towns by letting in WalMart and the very deep discounters but they couldn't wait to have their very own.

Now their towns are just another franchise of WalMart, Home Depot and McDonalds. There is less and less locally owned retail and even the service business are chains.

America is one big Chinese outlet center and now cheap crap is all we can afford on a clerks wage.

[Pops]

I lived in the Sierra Nevadas at just about that time and spoke at the city council meeting in our little gold rush town that wanted their very own WalMart, I was booed.

Couple of years later half the local business had closed.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('prajeshbhat', ' ') $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'G')osh. Again?! For the last time , workers live in China and other third world countries. (most of the) People in America are redundant, they pretend to be busy at best so they can get some of the stuff they did not make.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'I') lived in the Sierra Nevadas at just about that time and spoke at the city council meeting in our little gold rush town that wanted their very own WalMart, I was booed.

Couple of years later half the local business had closed.

[dsula]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'I') lived in the Sierra Nevadas at just about that time and spoke at the city council meeting in our little gold rush town that wanted their very own WalMart, I was booed.

Couple of years later half the local business had closed.

[peeker01]

Germans have a fierce nationalism. They love their country. They are proud of their country.
From the top management down to the rank and file worker, they are patriots. They seem
to have realized faster than America, your people have to work if they are going to eat.

Germany doesn't allow foreigners to pour across their borders. If you work in German as a
foreigner, you must have a work permit. When your permit expires, they come looking for you
and throw you out of the country.

[dsula]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'G')ermans have a fierce nationalism. They love their country. They are proud of their country.