40 million Americans on Food Stamps

[indahook]

Quote from Free Thinker:

that would be a dumb solution. if all the food stamp people in the cities hunted in a couple years all species of game animal would be extinct.

I think the poster was simply saying "teach a man to fish..."

Gardening, raising chickens, fishing or hunting is all the same. Get off the govt lifeline and recapture your spirit.

Personally I think food stamps are okay to get thru a rough patch. When I was a wee child we had to go to the church to beg for food and clothes for a spell. Life has a way of throwing some serious curveballs. But its up to the individual to get back up after that high and inside ball comes at you.

But there should be limitations on what you can "buy" with them. You should not be able to receive any processed junk food products with them. Fruits, veggies, meats or fish.

 

[achilles28]

Quote from Retief:

The problem isn't what to do. The problem is HOW to do it. It's like some fat-ass asking what to do to lose weight. What to do is obvious: diet and exercise. The question is how to do it. How to regularly drag his fat lazy ass out of bed at dawn and get in a hard 5K run. How to hit the gym and lift weights three days a week, and pass up the Big Macs with a large side of fries.

What to do is get the government the hell out of everything. Government programs distorted housing, education, and health care to the point that it is completely FUBAR. Get government out of health care and a hospital visit will cost about the same as taking your pet to a veterinarian. It will cost pretty much about what people can afford and are willing to pay, because if it costs more the hospital will be out of business. It's basic economics.

The problem is tough choices won't be made. Bureaucrats care too much about re-election. And half the voters depend on the welfare/perks/medicare/Social Security they'd be marching to abolish. Nobody has the stomach to end the free lunch because over the half the country benefits from it, in one form or another.

This is why the most likely outcome is Greece. Ride the train until it goes off the cliff. It's also why ethics, morals (spiritual, or otherwise) are so fundamental to an upright society. The freeloader culture destroys the incentive to work and seduces with the lure of something for nothing. Today's America is a long way from the self-reliant, upright America of the 30's.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from indahook:

I think the poster was simply saying "teach a man to fish..."

Gardening, raising chickens, fishing or hunting is all the same. Get off the govt lifeline and recapture your spirit.

Personally I think food stamps are okay to get thru a rough patch. When I was a wee child we had to go to the church to beg for food and clothes for a spell. Life has a way of throwing some serious curveballs. But its up to the individual to get back up after that high and inside ball comes at you.

But there should be limitations on what you can "buy" with them. You should not be able to receive any processed junk food products with them. Fruits, veggies, meats or fish.

when i was a kid there were no food stamps.if you were poor once a month you went down to the county courthouse and they gave you commodities..a chunk of hard cheese,powdered mild,meat packaged in a tin can and flour and sugar.
lets be practical though. you really want people in the cities to all start raising chickens? chickens are a dirty bird.

 

[Ivanovich]

Quote from Retief:

Now you're making this personal? Based on personal, anecdotal evidence? What is the reported obesity rate for the US? Here's a report from John Hopkins, a rather prestigous institution:



The US has the fattest poor people in the world.

So you're going to stick by your comment that 98% of those on food stamps are obese?

 

[indahook]

Quote from Free Thinker:

when i was a kid there were no food stamps.if you were poor once a month you went down to the county courthouse and they gave you commodities..a chunk of hard cheese,powdered mild,meat packaged in a tin can and flour and sugar.
lets be practical though. you really want people in the cities to all start raising chickens? chickens are a dirty bird.

You missed my point. Practical would be encouraging people to fend for themselves. That is all. It would get them outside and feeling more confident..thus leading to work, we hope.

I remember neighbors gettting the "govt cheese blocks"

Oh, and chickens arent dirty if you clean the coupe every day.

 

[copa8]

Quote from Retief:

And 98% of the 40 million on Food stamps look like marine mammals beached in front of a large-screen plasma TV with a cell-phone stuck in one ear.

sometimes they do go out in their cadillac escalade, though.

 

[NumLock]

Quote from NumLock:

Nutmeg I have you pegged as better informed than average don't make me UNpeg you

US military budget was anything but normal for the last 30 years. Hundreds of billions.

Pentagon 'to boost covert missions in Middle East

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10154696.stm

Read this article carefully it blatantly shows you that Through assassinations sabotage false flag events US covertly keeps screwing the world over and over again.

Now they are going after Iran. This is how you make enemies. This is how you go broke.

US foreign policy is THE NUMBER ONE fiscal and security problem and that will collapse the USA.

In this article

"Its goals are to build networks that could penetrate, disrupt, defeat, or destroy militant groups like al-Qaeda, and also prepare the environment for future attacks by American or local military forces."

The paper says the document appears to authorise specific operations in Iran. <<<<< anyone see the connection.

But there is not enough money for American people LOL

 

[Kassz007]

Quote from NumLock:

In this article

"Its goals are to build networks that could penetrate, disrupt, defeat, or destroy militant groups like al-Qaeda, and also prepare the environment for future attacks by American or local military forces."

The paper says the document appears to authorise specific operations in Iran. <<<<< anyone see the connection.

But there is not enough money for American people LOL

Nobody cares about your anti-American conspiracy theory bullshit. Create another alias and try again tomorrow.

 

[clacy]

Quote from NumLock:

In this article

"Its goals are to build networks that could penetrate, disrupt, defeat, or destroy militant groups like al-Qaeda, and also prepare the environment for future attacks by American or local military forces."

The paper says the document appears to authorise specific operations in Iran. <<<<< anyone see the connection.

But there is not enough money for American people LOL

Just get on board with the destruction Cold.

 

[NumLock]

Quote from Kassz007:

Nobody cares about your anti-American conspiracy theory bullshit. Create another alias and try again tomorrow.

Pentagon reported to BBC and BBC made an article. And you are calling it a conspiracy.

You seem to have me mistaken with someone.

You are a certifiable lunatic. I hope you are a shill because no one should be that stupid.
I also hope you are infertile hehe LOL