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This Chart Disproves Republicans' Food-Stamp Nonsense
TNR ^ | 09/03/2014 | Danny Vinik

Posted on 09/03/2014 6:40:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: skeeter

Or that the numbers were clearly pumped-up to get him through an election cycle.


21 posted on 09/03/2014 7:22:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

Government handouts are like Heroin, once you start taking them you just can’t stop.


22 posted on 09/03/2014 7:22:49 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: SeekAndFind

The WSJ. LOL!


23 posted on 09/03/2014 7:22:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp or woman's shelter for illegals! It's my home! !)
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To: glorgau
i.e. we found a temporary dip in the upward slope of the graph and use that to predict a permanent downward slope.

Exactly. Saved me some typing!

24 posted on 09/03/2014 7:25:53 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Yeah! Charts! Leftist internet boobs love charts.


25 posted on 09/03/2014 7:28:54 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: glorgau

I wonder why that same logic doesn’t apply to the global warming chart.


26 posted on 09/03/2014 7:30:25 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Vigilanteman

Yes.

The ratio is different (we have had a lot of job losses around here recently and John Deere scales down), but you are right.

I actually talked to one woman about this. She said that the benefits were such, her and her family couldn’t afford to go off the Stamps, so she and her partner (can’t remember if she said husband or not) work under the table for cash.


27 posted on 09/03/2014 7:39:15 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: SeekAndFind

SNAP *IS* an employment wage. SNAP recipients are professional workers.

They are skilled to vote the right way, and I wouldn’t expect the numbers of SNAP workers to decrease anytime soon... they are sorely needed for the 2014 election.


28 posted on 09/03/2014 7:41:32 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: SeekAndFind

How can they project a dip when mr. mulato is inviting in every unskilled mexican, guatemalan, honduran, el salvadoran, blah, blah , blah there is to suck at the American taxpayer trough?


29 posted on 09/03/2014 8:02:24 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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"Over the next few years, the number of food stamp beneficiaries will likely continue to fall."

Ah! The New Republic now believes in prophecy!
30 posted on 09/03/2014 8:08:31 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: SeekAndFind
For all those chanting for a minimum wage increase, saying that it would reduce food stamp usage.

What percentage of the population is at or near minimum wage?

How many of those at or near minimum wage, are part time?

There are 47 million people on food stamps. Another report says 20% of US households are on food stamps.

Simple math.
US minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
Raising it to $10 an hour, would be a $2.75 an hour raise.
For a 40 hour week, that's $110 a week. GROSS.
On the check, more like $82.
About $330 a month.

Let's be REAL HONEST.
How many people would be off of food stamps if they were bringing home an extra $330 a month?

How much of that $330 would be spent on cigarettes, pot, beer, alcohol and tattoos?

$330 is only for FULL TIME workers employees.
The majority of minimum wage employees are part time and minors.

Also, for those making over $7.25 but less than $10, their "raise" will be less.

A full time employee, making $9, will only make $40 a week more. About $30 on the check or $120 a month.

The average SNAP benefit is $133.85

31 posted on 09/03/2014 9:32:08 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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