The economic recovery rolls on. The number of American households receiving food stamps has hit 23 million. This is 23 million out of 115 million households. That’s 20%.
The government has a solution. Stop calling them food stamps. It has now issued cards that look just like credit cards.
Also, it has changed the name of the program. It’s now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. You know. As in snap, crackle, and pop. Snappy, snappy, snappy.
But, you ask, what about Obama’s economic recovery? If the recovery is real, why are more Americans on food cards? Because, come rain or come shine, recovery or no recovery, the farm bloc wants its subsidies, and the welfare bloc does, too.
It’s a matter of supply and demand. If demand stays high, farm prices stay high. There is nothing like free food to increase demand. Food cards offer free food. Rising demand proves there is rising need. Rising need proves that more food cards are necessary. It’s all logical — circular.
Do families ever get off food cards? Occasionally. But there are never enough families getting off to match the number of families getting on.
And the beat goes on. And the beat goes on.
Did you ever think that maybe the reason 20% of the US is on food straps is because they’re in poverty, because they’re not being paid a livable wage by the businesses you hold up as gods? Raise the minimum wage to $10/hour, better yet, $15/hour. It can ONLY boost people out of poverty and get them off government assistance. There is no downside, not even to the businesses, since they pass on all expenses to customers anyway.
What an idiot. If the minimum wage was raised to $15/hr. there would be massive unemployment, larger than it is now, and prices would go up significantly. We would pay almost twice as much for anything run by minimum wage workers, such as fast food. Either prices would syrocket to cover the new, higher costs, or many business would fold because they could not afford to remain in business while paying workers so much.
You would be wrong; take some collage level economics classes. All raising the minimum wage would do is create more inflation and or decrease the amount of people companies hire. I know for a fact a lot of people on that program are milking it and abusing the system. There should be a time limit on how long you can be in them instead. I remember seeing people applying for them driving new Lexus or Caddys.
WHY NOT JUST PROVIDE EVERY BODY WITH FREE FOOD STAMPS, FREE PHONES, AND MAYBE FREE HEALTH CARE?? OH, I FORGOT, WE ALREADY DO THAT WITH OBAMACARE. I CHECKED OUT INCOME REQUIREMENTS FOR FREE PHONE AND I FALL WELL WITHIN THE $$ LIMITS TO QUALIFY. I AM ALSO PRETTY SURE THAT I WOULD QUALIFY FOR FOOD STAMPS-BUT I WON'T. IT IS CALLED-HAVING PRIDE AND NOT PLAYING OFF GOVERNMENT-AND OTHER PEOPLE, WHO PAY TAXES MONEY.
IN 1970, I WORKED FOR $3.00/HR-AND TOOK NO FREEBIES! AND I SUPPORTED A WIFE AND 2 KIDS.
PERHAPS WE OUGHT OT START BY "REDUCING" GOVERNMENT WORKERS TO YOUR EVEN $15/HOUR=$31,200/YEAR, INSTEAD OF THE $187,000 THEY AVERAGE??
What would Jesus do?
Did you ever think that maybe they are on food stamps because they're in poverty because the "recovery" trumpeted by the Muslim leader you hold up as a god is as phony as he is? Instead of raising the minimum wage to $10/hour just raise it to $25/hour and end all poverty, except that will ensure that even more people will be out of work. There is a downside, however you are not willing to follow the chain and understand that product cost would necessarily have to skyrocket to support your insane idea which would change nothing but the magnitude of the numbers involved. This is nothing new, try economics 101. Businesses do not hire people out of the goodness of their hearts. They hire people because they need their skilled labor to produce goods and services to sell.
"Raise the minimum wage to $10/hour, better yet, $15/hour."
Wow Shane, I didn't know you are such a cheapskate. Why stop at $15 an hour? Why not tell us to raise it to $1 million dollars a year for everyone who works, and in a year everyone will be millionaires.
If you aren't too stupid to understand why that would be a disaster Shane, then you should be able to extrapolate and understand why raising the minimum wage solves nothing.
Read more: http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/04/26/food-stam…
Let's go with St. Paul with 2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NIV) : "For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."
And you know that all those receiving food stamps (not straps) are eligible and entitled to them OR do you just suppose many of those receiving this assistance, that is paid by the tax-paying Americans, are not deserving of them and our Government really doesn't care?
" I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." Benjamin Franklin
Who said anything about not working. We're talking about people who work like dogs (the vast majority) and still can't make ens meet. Turn off Fox News and think harder.
Muslim leader! You're admitting you still believe Right Wing Propaganda. Nice going.
You are so right Bob
You would not believe the percentage of Mexicans invading the USA and getting food stamps.We advertise free food via food stamps in Mexico. It is like an invitation to be a free loader. So they do. We also give them free housing, free medical care, free transportation, just about everything and anything you would need to be able to sit and watch tv all day long seven days a week.
Over half are on it illegally and have learned from the Black population in the cities how to manipulate the system. I have reported two that I know of and the Dem controlled Fed bureaucrats will not do a thing! It will end real soon and they will get nothing as there will be nothing to get. Bankrupt Fed bureacracy.
You keep feeding the mouse free cheese and it will always come back for more. Putting fancy labels on this out control program is not going to change anything. There is a lot of abuse and people buying cigarettes and booze or trading the value of the card for something else. We know that illegal aliens are not suppose to get freebies from the government but is is going on just like sancturary cities are in violation of feredal immigration laws but that is a joke also.
To all illegal immigrants, I do understand your plight, but here is the deal. We need you to go home and make your country a better place and let us American born have your jobs and food…. We really do appreciate all your needs and unpleasant life, we at one time had the same struggle when our for fathers came to these shores hoping for a better life we fought with blood, sweat and tears, we have lost loved ones trying to share the beauty of America in other parts of the world. Yet now we are over burdened we can not sustain you and us too. So please go home you have learned much rise up and make your home and country like ours. It is possible with blood, sweat and tears…
Lol. Thanks, Seymour. Sometimes I think I’m the only person reading this stuff who knows it’s BS. Frustrating, yes. But also amusing at times. I’m not a “troll”. I just believe in knowing the enemy;-)
It never ceases to amaze me how a filthy rich ruling class manages to convince people to not only passionately believe in ideas that are against their own interests, but to vote for them too. If most of you guys could get away from the right wing propaganda, religion, and bigotry for a while, you might be able to see that you are getting SUCKERED! But no. Because the rhetoric has you feeling like you know what’s REALLY happening. Come on.
Patronize much?
Aaron it never ceases to amaze me how liberals are more than willing to give everything they have and what they don't have away to people who have never done one form thing to achieve dreams..