[PSYCHO-FREEP]

This is one reason not many are griping about no jobs. It is also generating false consumer numbers because these "sales" are included in Consumer Spending statistics.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Don’t let the food stamps statistic fool you. The reason more people are on food stamps is because of expanded eligibility. This is creeping socialism, pure and simple. You don’t need to be starving to get food stamps anymore.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think we are basically in a Great Depression, but people stay on "unemployment" for years, and foodstamps are amazingly common, and banks allow people to stay in foreclosed homes, and government figures for Inflation and Unemployment are basically doctored up.

In 1933, the country was less socialistic, so a deep economic breakdown really hurt. Today, an economic breakdown of similar magnitude is harder to see. But I think it's here.

[Defend Liberty]

BO’s/BS’s Cloward-Piven strategy is proceeding according to plan.

[EGPWS]

Before I consider any freebies that are paid for by another hard working person I need to find out if they will pay for Cuban cigars and hard liquor otherwise the paperwork really isn't worth filling out.

The tax return that I get from my unemployment will pay for my families food and shelter.

[choctaw man]

...and he’s payin’ my rent and car payment...lol

[Howie66]

Maybe these parasites need to send Present Stroker a “Thank You” note.

[cranked]

..must be part of that “hope and change” propaganda promised.... =.=

[GlockThe Vote]

Bingo. Bama has his reelection numbers in place.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Meanwhile, the Kenyan bass turd has one billion dollars in his “campaign chest” to purchase the Oval Office for another four years. Somebody needs to be in jail. ONE BILLION DOLLARS! Our system is definitely broken.

[CodeToad]

There are about 85 million households in the US, and now 44 million foodstamp recipients.

This is a Great Depression...we just don’t have soup lines, we have food stamps.

[PGalt]

Units of dependents/economic slaves endowed by their masters with certain alienable rights, among them food.

Redistibute the wafers. Where’s my cheese?

Defund the collectivists/totalitarians collectives.

[Yaelle]

The6 aren’t even stigma-inducing stamps any more. It’s a convenient debit card. Sheesh.

[denydenydeny]

Natural science recognizes the distinction between organisms that are merely parasitic and those that are parasitoidal: those that not only feed off the host organism but eventually kill it off.

That’s kind of the stage we’re in now.

[blueunicorn6]

A few years back, I was standing behind a lady in the checkout line at a supermarket. She had two lobster tails and two big T-bone steaks. I was thinking, “Somebody’s eating good tonight.” She paid for it with food stamps. Then, she went out and got into her new Ford pickup.

[Jack Hydrazine]