It's also hard to ignore the fact that he's also one of the main proponents of raising the national minimum wage. What he's trying to do is create a class of economic serfs beholden to the federal government.

And if you win, then you can play. That's why they need government coercion to let them "win".

In his weekly address today OBlamer bragged about how great all those low paying jobs are doing and all those out of work. What a loser!

So far the only folks who are saying the economy is
fine are the sheeple who follow the libtarts.

When you can't find work in your profession, you do what you can to survive. You keep on applying for work, improve interviewing skills all while flipping burgers. Perhaps you might figure out how to get a loan and start your own business. In any case, it reminds me of the pro gambler who was listening to someone expound on how the odds in Las Vegas were stacked against you, and he said, "It's true, but if you don't play, you can't win."

That one is sitting on my shelf at home and is probably next in my reading que. Thanks for the reminder!

I work two jobs. My jobs are both professional positions requiring years of study, licensure and registration. The guys I know with one job are almost ALL paycheck-to-paycheck. If they actually make minimum wage $15 you'll see very educated people flipping burgers...

Sure. I'm just using the government's own numbers and official definitions. I've heard it argued that we are in a mild, drawn-out depression. Frankly, I can see that point.

The conditions around where I live are very much like the Great Depression - the Sacramento region.

No one deserves them if they are provided by the government at taxpayer's expense. However in our present situation, at the very least, only the very poor and disabled, through no fault of their own deserves them. The traditional charities are doing less in this area because of the government's largesse.

we retired as early as it was feasible, 59 and 47,
and it was like a shrug....... -- j

Who deserves food stamps? At who's expense?

Speaking for myself... I shrugged.

That's what knowing people think.

they're more equal than the other animals! -- j

and why are 92 million able folks out-of-work? -- j

how about the numbers of young people who have nothing to do so they become protesters. if they had jobs they wouldn't have time to protest. but they do have to eat, welcome 0. he will feed them but it will not be a ny strip. any way there are so many signs that the economy is no longer in the toilet but it has been flushed.

Good question. Can it be that some who receive food stamps don't deserve them? Add to that the fact that the economy truly stinks on the level of the average citizen. The doctored statistics force rose colored glasses over the public's eyes. Unemployment is much higher than reported. The price of everything is increasing, but wages are not. I talk to guys working two jobs and whose wife has a job and raises the kids which is probably equivalent to working three jobs. If I tell them the economy is getting better, I get responses anywhere from "are you kidding" to "shove it up your ass."

I KNOW the economy is still in the toilet. I work in the food industry, and all I have to look at are the escalating food costs every year due to transportation costs and inflation and compare them to the actual volume being moved to see the farce. Monetary values of food sales keep going up, but volume sales are flat. That tells me all I need to know right there - that the economy is NOT as rosy as the politicians want you to believe.

Collectivists think that welfare is a normal part of an "economy". They _want_ an economy of redistribution. They don't think that massive use of government entitlements are a sign of a poor economy at all.

Especially the pigs.

(nod to Animal Farm)

That's what thinking people know.

the recession began in september of 2000 and has continued except for one break even quarter in 2005, non stop. shadowstats.com

and have been since 2001

and of course if you are single you cannot get food stamps

The book The Forgotten Man I recently learned about in the Gulch explains it all. History is repeating itself and the idiots in Washington are pathologic. We truley need John Galt.