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Unprecedented: Food Stamp Enrollments Top 45 Million 3 Years In a Row

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 9 years, 7 months ago to Culture
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Pitiful. Hell, I don't know about everywhere else but there are big "We Accept EBT" signs on Jack-in-the-Box here in Phoenix. Food stamps, its not just for sustenance anymore.
SOURCE URL: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/25/Unprecedented-Food-Stamp-Enrollments-Top-45-Million-3-Years-In-a-Row

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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 7 months ago
    They have been advertising for customers since Obama took office. I was shocked to learn that grants were given out to organizations like Second Harvest food bank to place advertisements on radio and in print to encourage people making $10 or more per hour to find out how they could qualify. This is happening much more than most people realize. This is no surprise at all to me. But it is disgusting.
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    • Posted by Solver 9 years, 7 months ago
      A riddle asked which was more wise – To teach a person to fish or to feed them a fish?
      Their answer is to teach them to fish for food stamps, then give them the stamps, to get a fish.
      A very expense lesson.
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  • Posted by Solver 9 years, 7 months ago
    Now this is growth. A progressive number of people learning to be "unlucky" so they can demand their newly found "rights" derived from the forced servitude of others. Just a sampling of the promised hope and change America voted for.
    Makes me want to Shrug.
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  • Posted by H6163741 9 years, 7 months ago
    My best friend's husband manages a trader joes. He says people will buy the most expensive thing they can find with their food stamps, then return it the next day for cash.
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  • Posted by Kova 9 years, 7 months ago
    I don`t understand how anyone thinks it is logical to give out money to "people in need." At least, if assistance is going to be provided, it should be directly in the form of soup kitchens and shelter. No money (with the option to spend frivolously) should ever pass into the hands of the "needy." You want to create incentive for people to "get off the dole?" Simply treat them to socialism in its purest sense--and watch how quickly these "socialists" scramble for the privilege of liberty in choosing how to spend their own money...even if it means they have to earn it first.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 7 months ago
    According to estimates, the TOTAL US population is only 314 million. That means that a little over 14% of the nation is participating in this program. Consider that only 156 million are even working and that means that for only three people are working for every person on food stamps. That's simply not sustainable.
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  • Posted by radical 9 years, 7 months ago
    Businesses that take EBT should be boycotted. This is not always possible, or practical, but alterations in our life styles will be necessary to get the parasites off our back.
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 7 months ago
    This number almost perfectly correlates with the number of people below the poverty line. 30% of those living in poverty are children who do not qualify for a SNAP card. Which means 30 % of recipients are middle class receiving food subsidies. This is roughly doesn't take into account numbers of children per household.
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  • Posted by stadler178 9 years, 7 months ago
    I have to say, I can't understand how, when I look at my receipt from the store, I see boxed candy labeled with an 'F' for 'Food Stamp Eligible'. So are the American people paying for the less fortunate to eat candy? Well, I guess that makes sense. If they get chronic health problems, the American people will pay for that too. So all bases are covered.

    I don't know, I just assumed that maybe a Food Stamp program would disqualify anything that's not a truly essential food item. But those numbers are staggering. If the economy is improving, those numbers HAVE to decline. I haven't bought the notion that we're all doing better. The only thing I've noticed not going up is my paycheck. Everything else costs more, and my pay raises are just not keeping pace with higher rent, higher insurance costs and so on.
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  • Posted by brando79az 9 years, 7 months ago
    A pizza joint named Papa Murphy's accepts EBT so the moochers are allowed to have pizza parties with our money. My college job was in a grocery store and the way I remember it you cannot use food stamps for pre-prepared food. For example, they cannot go to the deli and buy their hot foods but they can buy their deli meats. If this restriction is still in place, Papa Murphy's gets around that because their pizza is served uncooked and the buyer then bakes the pizza later at home. See what they did there?
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    Posted by wiggys 9 years, 7 months ago
    since welfare got started in nyc in the 30's to help puertoricans coming to the usa EVERY president has increased the size of the public dole. since the economy tanked big time under the gwb error 0 has made sure that the economy isn't going to turn so he would have a larger base of recipients. also I do not believe for one second or nano second that the 46 million is accurate. if you could get an accurate count I bet it is double that number and probably then some. 0 and ALL of the congress of the usa ARE socialists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 9 years, 7 months ago
      Misleading. Welfare was started because of the need generated by the Great Depression of the 1930s and later morphed to help unwed mothers deal with unwanted pregnancies.

      I'm not sure where your angst against Puerto Rican's come from but its kind of telling.

      http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in...
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      • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 7 months ago
        I have nothing against Puerto Ricans, I knew many and we were friends while I grew up in nyc. but I do believe that was one of the earliest welfare programs.
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        • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 9 years, 7 months ago
          Even so, the idea that a social welfare program was specifically created to help a particular class of people.... Everyone, almost literally, was greatly affected by the Great Depression (my Grandparents too) so to create the program to help one segment of the population - even for Ds - seems unrealistic and even immoral.
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          • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 7 months ago
            "to create the program to help one segment of the population - even for Ds - seems unrealistic and even immoral. "

            Hey, AJ... ever hear of a class of people called "illegal aliens"? ever hear of "comprehensive immigration reform"? ever hear of "path to citizenship"?

            Since when did morality ever stop Ds from pursuing their fundamentally immoral agenda?
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          • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 7 months ago
            mind you I wasn't boren when the PR migration into NYC started. further I was equally unaware of welfare around the country. it was something I became aware of years later. You might want to research the subject. But I do know they were given the assistance. not that it matters any longer since those elected want to give our money to those who do not work or for that matter even want to work.
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            • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 9 years, 7 months ago
              but everyone was given assistance who would take it. My Grandfather did not.
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              • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 7 months ago
                My grandfather drove - and worked on - his own truck during the Depression - and drove a set route - Furniture and wooden goods to LA, Citrus and Vegetables to Northern California, Oregon, and Washington, and wood back to South Dakota to be made into furniture... their family were some of the few that had somewhat decent (by depression standards) clothes on their backs and enough food to not only not starve, but to feed others when times got rough.

                Did they like having a dad who was not home 95% of the time, and of the other 5% it was when he as lucky enough to be able to route home (and usually it was for a couple hours at night).

                I remember the stories they told (when I was quite young), and it fascinated me. Sadly, the town they lived in... is one of those towns that somewhat dried up, being bypassed by the interstate system.

                I am rather quite proud that, no matter how bad I got (and it got bad sometimes), I *never* took food stamps, public assistance, WIC, section 8 housing, or anything from those socialistic moocher programs that take from the working and give to the worthless. Even when I was a leftist-leaning fool. I think (and I am eternally grateful for this) it had to do with how I was raised, by parents who were raised that way as well by their parents, who could look at themselves in a mirror, and not shrink back or shudder...
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                • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 9 years, 7 months ago
                  My grandfather threw his father out of his home for beating his mother during the depression, taking responsibility for his mother and 5 sisters as a teenager. He took a job as a butcher apprentice and worked it, with a break for WWII, until he retired.

                  I remember massive feasts for the holidays (5-6 courses) AND his insistence that everyone eat bread and butter with every meal (literally). He had no tolerance for indigents, welfare or excuses.

                  He passed away 19-20 years ago, before my son was born. I think of him quite a bit, regret that my kids never knew him or my grandmother and I miss his character.
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                  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 7 months ago
                    My other grandfather was a dairyman and ran a butcher shop during the same era. Maybe the act of putting steel to muscle to break down an animal to go in the case and then feed families made them what they were to end up making us what we are... (I remember my dad - who I suspect had the duty of "taking care of the cows" - telling he swore he'd *never* work a farm as long as he lived... tho he could dress and pluck a pheasant or duck in a matter of seconds, and breaking down a deer, sheep, or cow like it was nothing. Probably all that practice when he was a kid.)

                    I remember being told one solid truth from that side of the family over and over... when people can't afford anything else, they have to eat. It was the lesson they learned in the Depression, and it was brilliant business advice - find something people can't do without, and produce it to provide good quality at a fair price.
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              • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 7 months ago
                not everyone. my family did not get any, and I never knew of any family that received it. it was never a discussion that I am aware of, until I found out about the PR folk getting it after the exited the airplanes at now kennedy airport.
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      • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 7 months ago
        Please elaborate and explain how federal government food stamp programs were *needed* because of the Great Depression.
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        • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 9 years, 7 months ago
          Many were out of work and out of food. With jobs growing more an more scarce a safety-net was constructed - welfare, job corps, etc. Right or wrong Roosevelt helped make matter worse to facilitate a socialist program to make people dependent on government - many took advantage of these programs because they couldn't stand to watch their children go hungry. Got to love the migration to the cities, no?
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