Posted on 01/17/2014 11:38:30 PM PST by Innovative
The number of Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) receiving food stamps zoomed from 1.7 million to 3.9 million between Fiscal Year 2007 and Fiscal Year 2010. In that same period, food stamp recipients in total grew from 26 million to nearly 40 million.
Spending on food stamps now totals somewhere around $80 billion, twice what the number was in Fiscal Year 2008.
Presently, the work waivers foisted on the states by Obama allow ABAWDs to receive food stamps indefinitely--without working or preparing for work.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
They are human bovines.
Let’s get some terms straight here. I do not consider myself at 73 to be an old goat. I think you’re in the same age group. Therefore, using your own criteria...
Yes, you do meet my definition of a poor slob, a person who has so few financial assets that he felt it necessary to retreat from this country to be able to exist. That’s why you’re crowing about being immune from the political system here in the USA rings so hollow. You moved for financial reasons, not political ones.
Do I count?
“This is NOT like the depression.”
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The main difference I see is that there is much more coverup of the situation now. One man who was old enough to remember the thirties told me a couple of years ago that this is NOT a depression “because we don’t have soup kitchens now.” Well, we may not have the soup kitchens of the thirties but we do have soup kitchens plus a HUGE percentage of people being supported by the government. The TRUE rate of unemployment is very much like the thirties but numbers are juggled to pretend otherwise and most people now have far less ability to make do with whatever comes to hand compared to the Americans of the thirties. My parents came of age in the thirties and they knew how to survive in the same circumstances in which many today would sit and starve or go out and steal whatever they can find. I don’t think I am exaggerating in saying that.
One thing that has not changed is that govenment is largely responsible for the situation and it will not improve as long as people look to the same government that caused the problem for a solution.
Here in PA the full " benefit" is $50 a week per person. That's a lot of money.
It's common to see "single" mothers that get the full welfare ride while living with a working male. They do very well. Welfare takes care of the necessities and his salary is all gravy.
Last night I was in line behind a fat chick that was trying to buy an energy drink with her food stamp card. When denied she said "All the other stores let me".
Rural folks have other costs that city dwellers. In most rural areas there is no public transportation so a vehicle is a necessity, along with insurance and $4 a gal gas. Where I used to live the nearest grocery store was 23 miles away.
The Entitlement Army.
Pulled off an almost unimaginable win in 2012.
Probably assuring Dems control national elections until the markets implode.
Yeah the last thing i see around me is starving people.
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So very true. When your’e in line behind 2 behemoths with a cart full of nothing but garbage snack foods and they use their EBT, lumber out of the store and heave themselves into their Lincoln Navigator. You can only shake your head in wonder.
"One reason for the catastrophic growth in the number of ABAWDs is Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill, which opened the door for states to waive the work provision required of ABAWDs. That work provision mandated that to continue receiving food stamps, after three months of being unemployed ABAWDs must work or perform some type of work activity 20 hours per week."
THIS is the point -- that people who are ablebodied, NOT old, need to maintain a habit of work, the states gave them things to do, (not forced to get jobs, if there aren't any) based on their abilities, rather than just live off the dole almost permanently. That way since they did have to do some work, they had an incentive to look for and find a job. But Obama removed that requirement. This removed the incentive for many to find work.
I at least understood the point of the article but theres zero doubt it’s insinuating that all the single able bodied people getting aid are only getting it because of the law and not because of need. That sir is precisely how the vast majority on here are reading it.
and traveling to work in NYC is 5 bucks a day,every day. Roomates here still have to cough up as much if not more than someone in a rural area pays for a 2 bedroom apt and i’m being kind with my comparison. I’m not talking about Manhattan either.
I don’t know why i even bother posting on these articles. It’s about 99% of the people here are convinced that everyone capable of working can find a job that will pay their bills and feed them. The ability to see outside their own circumstances is totally lacking. We’ll never win back the white house until people start to comprehend what others go through.
Everyone’s situation is different and anyone can fall on hard times — too bad that the word “compassionate conservative” fell out of favor.
In many states those who couldn’t find a job and had a need, but were indeed able bodied used to be required — and they should be willing to actually do some work — usually “volunteer-type” work, but it accomplished two things: people who had pride were able to maintain their pride, that while they can’t find a job, they are still contributing for the help they are getting, and it helped maintain a work ethic, which helps when they try to find a real job.
The problem is that if able bodied younger (I am not talking about older people)people just keep getting money deposited into their account, they have no incentive to work.
FoxNews did an interview, it was a while ago, with a young, healthy guy in California, who surfs all day, gets food stamps, which he uses to buy lobster and other delicacies. And unfortunately this is not an isolated incident.
” But Obama removed that requirement. This removed the incentive for many to find work.”
You’ve broken the code!! Obama’s agenda is to create a dependent society sufficiently large to insure the re-election of RATs. That, and “income redistribution” are the sole elements of his presidency.
Taking money from one person, ultimately, at gunpoint, to give to another person just because that person doesn’t have “enough”, is wrong.
Even if done by government.
AMEN!
When Romney dissed the “47%” he hit a lot of good people who were just going through bad times and I wonder why on earth Romney thought that would be excusable.
This is why I’m shying away from these types of threads too.
I'm sure that I can live much better here on $30K than someone in NYC making 2-3 times as much.
The only way you could get me to NYC would be bound and gagged in the trunk of a car.
That being said this thread is about the feds taking my money at the point of a gun to give to able bodied adults with no dependents.
“I do not have to be there to get it.”
My point precisely!
The local idjet with all the resources at his finger tips can’t solve the equation. Suffering obviously from severe blood loss to the optic nerve.
Check out this thread’s posts ‘DOGGIES! The America bashing, (Remember, he calls America the USSA), little man is at it again! I think you hit the nail on the head ‘Poss. Things got a little to rough here in the good old USA for the little man and all he had left was to take a run out powder over to the third world. Hell, they can keep him. We have to many gutless pussies here as it is.
There you go again with that “I live a free life” line again.
You’re only free because you’ve chosen to abdicate even your most fundamental of responsibilities.
And when you die you’re going to leave the rest of us paying survivor’s benefits to your widow for decades.
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