Cafferty: 28 million Americans on food stamps

[DeepModem Mom]

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[Donnachaidh]

1. only 28 million? That seems low to me, considering how bad it's getting

These stats seem low. Bet we'll see OVER 20 million by the end of the year. Remember, the folks losing jobs now are the ones who will be applying for them when their unemployment runs out.

[defendandprotect]

2. This is simply the GOP's "third world America" they've been working on for decades ---!!!

The GOP are record-breaking destroyers and criminals ---

I'm only surprised that these people were able to get food stamps ---
the GOP is probably working now on eliminating them!

[kevinbgoode]

6. Oh, the conservatives are already wailing about entitlement programs

and the mortal danger to America if the "socialists" Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama are elected President. They've suddenly discovered "big" government again.

If there is one thing a conservative cannot stand, it is the idea of spending American tax dollars on the American people living in America. They have no problem with big government spending to bribe tribal groups in Afghanistan, or to fund public works projects (being built by overcharging private corporations in Iraq).

And THAT should be a campaign slogan.

[defendandprotect]

13. You and I are picking up the same theme ... GOP moving from "liberal" to "Socialist" ---

That's just short of "Commie" --- in the old Nixon style --- !!!

As neither have they ever had any problems with "Socialism for the rich!" --- !!

[provis99]

3. I guess the Republican solution would be to cancel the food stamp program

Then they could say, "See? No more poor people on food stamps! Aren't things better now?"
That's already been their attitude towards the fuzzy unemployment numbers the Bush regime uses, or their ideas on welfare.

[gateley]

4. Add to that the millions of people

who are in dire need of help, but don't qualify for one reason or another.

I read (here on DU, I think) where someone was denied food stamps because their car was worth more than....trying to remember...$3000?
Something like that.

And I agree, this need to be addressed during the campaigns. Ask them to their faces -- how are you going to help these people NOW?

EDIT to add: Thinking about this, the inane squabbling going on between the campaigns now is disgusting. What the fuck????

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Amen to your added edit. nt

[Peanut Butter]

7. We tout ourselves as the richest ...

most powerful country in the world
The number of Americans receiving Food Stamps is projected to
reach 28 million people this year.

The NYT reports that its the highest number of people on Food Stamps since
the program started back in the nineteen sixties

The record number of people around the country who have near poverty incomes
that are necessary to qualify for Food Stamps, Staggering...

Fourteen States have seen record increases in the number of people on Food Stamps
just since last December.

Among them Michigan where its one and eight, West Virginia one in six , Ohio,
One in Ten. Of the fifty States forty saw their numbers rise with several of them
actually seeing increases of ten percent or more .

While the Federal Government is busy bailing out investment banks like Bear/Sterns
an estimated two million people are looking at the possible loss of their homes
through foreclosure.

Last month the U.S economy actually lost 63,000 jobs while the cost of food is expected
to go up four percent this year, Average cost of a gallon of gasoline, Three Twenty Nine,
Almost a dollar more than it was a year ago with experts predicting four dollars per gallon
for gasoline this spring.

What's the answer to a record twenty eight million Americans being on food stamps ?

Jack Cafferty.

[hazardballsaem]

8. FIRST OFF

I believe that we should not have a food stamp program at all.....it is just like the welfare program......an easy way for lazy Americans to get food instead of working and having to bust their ass for everything that they get.....they would rather get a free handout. That is not the gov. responsibility to give us free hand outs.........all of that is just b/s 28 million......yea right they need to cut that # in half and exclude the ones who can work and make enough money to buy food.

[ProfessorPlum]

10. A hearty welcome to DU! Your compassion for your fellow

human beings is duly noted. I hope that you never need any kind of help from your fellow citizens.

[Limelight]

11. Get back under your bridge troll...

Hey jackass has it ever even occurred to you that that vast majority of these folks would rather being doing anything other than depending on the government to help them eat? Do you think these folks, many of whom have probably worked all of their lives and now find them selves in a bad situation where they've either lost a job or have a job, but the pay hasn't kept up with the cost of living therefore leaving them unable to make ends meet, would much rather have the pride of providing for their themselves and their families all on their own?

You're an ignorant idiot who, despite surely flying the flag in the front yard and never making a public appearance without your flag lapel pin, doesn't have a damn clue what the hell America is about. America isn't about the law of the jungle, only the strong survive. It's about this country being a group of citizens that help one another when times get tough. No doubt your utter ignorance is proof that it is a high ideal that goes against the baser instincts of human nature, but the thing is as long as the rest of us hold on to our humanity and empathy we can always minimize simple minded animals like you.

[RainDog]

12. what a stupid fucking idiot you must be

do you know what a living wage is for the U.S.?

do you know what minimum wage is? do you think that a married couple making minimum wage can afford to raise two kids (for the sake of an avg.) do you think that divorced mothers (just for the sake of humanity, assume the divorce was not b/c of their doing) who try to raise children and work should work a second job - or should they spend time with their kids? should Americans have to make a choice between food for their kids or oversight for their kids?

it might interest you to know that in San Diego, for instance, MILITARY FAMILIES have resorted to food stamps/free food programs to survive. If you think the ppl deployed in Iraq are not busting their asses for everything they get, then why don't you volunteer to see what it's like?

there are also ppl in this nation who qualify for food stamps... the working poor... who do not apply for them b/c of the stigma and their personal embarrassment. should ppl in this nation have to choose between food and health care?

Do you also think the govt shouldn't give free handouts to corporate welfare queens? I mean, who actually costs the govt more money - someone hit hard by the economy, or Halliburton, charging billions for work not even done, costing trillions of taxpayer dollars for a war that was created by their former CEO who also happens to benefit?

Have you so fallen for the Rush Limbaugh bullshit that you cannot see what an embarrassment you are to anyone in this country who is aware of the massive, massive fraud and waste that comes from the richest in this nation???

Ever try to unpack that stupidity and see what you've got there?

not much, I can already tell you.

[underpants]

14. (aside for the other well stated posts here) Why did the Romans give the poor bread and grains?

Yes the Roman Empire



Think about the basic responsibility of those who govern......




















They did so because if even the poorest of the poor at least have something to eat (or aren't starving) they won't TAKE TO THE STREETS to find food. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd and when, say 15, people start raising hell because they have no alternative others tend to think HELL YEAH and join in. Pretty soon you have civil unrest and that does NO ONE in the ruling party any good.

Look it ain't the guy next to you digging for scraps who is screwing you-it is the ones up top throwing out the scraps from their bountiful tables. You have fallen for the "blame the poor" propaganda. Granted a lot of people have, see a crowd attracting a crowd.

In our groupthink world imagine what might have happened had the masses really been able to just SEE that some of us knew how this war, for instance, was going to turn out--why they might have thought it okay not to "support" it and THEN where would we be?

[Gonnuts]

9. It's working!!!

Yup, those bush tax cuts are working!

This has been the plan all a long. Destroy our economy and then merge Canada, Mexico and American economies to the AMERO. It's part of the One-World-Government bush and his ilk have been planning for generations.

In the mean time the great dog & pony show rambles on keeping us distracted to the fact that our lives are being destroyed.