Great depression era style lines forming.

Trendytrader · Sep 17, 2012

Quote from noob_trad3r:

Foodstamps is a great example of Lemon Socialism. Walmart for example does not have to pay real wages on an inflation adjusted level because they know the Government makes up the slack by giving its employees Foodstamps and Medicaid.

And of course the remaining Middleclass taxpayer gets the shaft.

Come to MA they actually advertise on the radio during NFL games "if you are x y z you could be eligible for and EBT card....call this number..."

I understand that the state gets a bonus if they meet sign up targets. Must be the only social welfare program where the issuer gets a bonus for signing up more no hopers and bludgers.

cdcaveman · Sep 17, 2012

Quote from Trendytrader:

Come to MA they actually advertise on the radio during NFL games "if you are x y z you could be eligible for and EBT card....call this number..."

I understand that the state gets a bonus if they meet sign up targets. Must be the only social welfare program where the issuer gets a bonus for signing up more no hopers and bludgers.

that sounds totally like the gov is setting up dependence to steal rights away..

chisel · Sep 17, 2012

A lesson in irony: The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves. This ends today's lesson.

LincolnArmy · Sep 17, 2012

Quote from krazykarl:

I'd like to see a chart showing the percentage, not quantity, of Americans receiving food stamps over this same time...

I can't see that adding any more than marginal value. Unless you're suggesting something like millions of Mexicans have come over here to get foodstamps which I can't see being the case.
The absolute numbers speak for themselves don't they?

achilles28 · Sep 18, 2012

Quote from chisel:

A lesson in irony: The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves. This ends today's lesson.

Brilliant.

deucy28 · Sep 18, 2012

Quote from deucy28:

A lesson in irony: The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves. This ends today's lesson.

LOL LOL

cdcaveman · Sep 18, 2012

yeah... everywhere i go i see animals being treated better then people... this is just another case... treat people like they don't know how to take care of themselves and they won't know how..

badvestor · Sep 18, 2012

Quote from krazykarl:

we've added more people the last 10 years than we did from 1900-1910: that's a fact.

The chart posted earlier in this thread doesn't tell anything of value, at best it provides misdirection for someone's position.

The spike is from all the illegal mexicans getting on the govt dole

deucy28 · Sep 19, 2012

Quote from krazykarl:

I'd like to see a chart showing the percentage, not quantity, of Americans receiving food stamps over this same time...

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Because you believe that population spiked as massively during the last three years?

Quote from badvestor:

The spike is from all the illegal mexicans getting on the govt dole

I d u n n o about the illegals impacting to the extent of a spike.

I DO know it was the straw (ONE BIG STRAW) that broke California's back.

Reminds me of when I was in Spain 3 1/2 years ago and the financial cable channels had not heard of Spain's plight. There was no one who had coined the PIIGS countries yet. I was flabbergasted to come to understand when there it had reached 17% unofficial unemployment. (Much higher now.) The U.S. was pushing 7% at the time. The recently, well educated Spanish college grads were not getting jobs. All youth unemployment was about to become 40% (now 50%). The country did not have enough laborers during the earlier go-go years three or four years earlier to build their real estate boom. It gave work visa's to laborers from Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and other Caribbean countries. When the bust came, Socialist President Zapatera refused to send them back home to those "poor countries." Good intentions. Bad economics. It became the straw that broke Spain's back.

When many of this nation's states decided to offer safe harbor (no deportation, medical and education support) we became a big Spain. Many states don't have the wherewithal to pay its current or future pension liabilities or a lot of other things they are supposed to do. The acronym gets longer: US PIIGS.....us pigs.

MKTrader · Sep 19, 2012

Absolutely wrong conclusion from the OP. Soup lines have been replaced by the EBT card.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/09/20/watching-walmart-at-midnight/