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I'm curious as to what the 13% are in the unknown bracket.
Whites have 64% of the country and receive 40% of the food stamps...blacks have 12% and receive 26%
Theres 45 million ppl (15%) in the US on food stamps out of 300 million ppl....there's 36 million blacks in this country...meaning 12 million of them or a full 1/3 (33%) receive food stamps....theres nearly 200 million white ppl and 18 million of them (9%) receive food stamps.
The only thing blacks need to learn in school is directions to the Human Services Dept and how to use their EBT cards
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Looks like Obama did something right- The rate of children living with married parents who receive food stamps has doubled since 2007.
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How the heck are married couples getting that much support? Unreal.
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Know a guy who went to university of cincinnati. White guy who got stamps and a handout while in college. His father was a professor at uc so he went for free. He used his friends house so that he could get stamps. He is computer programmer for p&g that is against govt handouts to this day.Comment -
Usually most people that get food stamps are working for a walmart type of company.
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Apr 15, 2014 - Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion ... well assome context on the other side of the coin: Walmart's huge share ... of Walmart employees receiving Medicaid is similar to the percentage for ..Comment -
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anyone on food stamps is a fukkin loser, end of story
on my 2nd bottle of champagne that I bought with money!!
its cool when you earn money, you can spend it!!!
food stamps
what kind of loser do you have to be to accept food stamps
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Growing up, I was broke and homeless and someone told me about going to the office and getting food stamps and explained how it worked. I said fcck that and sometimes went days without eating.
I'd rather starve than take money out of another mans wallet to eat. Money another man worked hard for. And I starved like a mother fccker too. There were nights when I was out in the cold in a dark area with nowhere to go, but I still had my pride and dignity.
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That's noble but I think ppl are starting to miss my point here....it is the culture of long-term welfare dependence I am ranting about. Look if you are looking for a job and trying to get back on your feet it's fine for a very short-term emergency help. But all these lifelong free rent, food stamps, cash, utilities, etc etc fuckin gravy train welfare programs are an absolute joke and will destroy 10000x more than they will help.Comment -
I'm from a generation where foodstamps didn't exist. As far as abolishing them, I think once something is entrenched, it's very hard to undo. Lax research standards by government officials (doing due diligence to see who legitimately qualifies) encourages widespread abuse; and here in Mass it's abuse is widespread. Obviously no bank account (or a bank account with little in it) is a requirement, along with no employment.
I forget what the "free money" cards were (are) called here in Mass, but they've been tracked to strip joints and Foxwoods. My feeling is that 10% of the recipients of foodstamps are legitimate whereas 90% are not.Comment -
I agree that most are scamming and should not get it. But sometimes you have to give the benefit of the doubt. We were at Acme a few months ago. A lady in front of us was using them which took longer. She brought nothing but that were necessities.She had a baby and a toddler. She looked embarrassed when she looked at us. She was dressed very common nothing flashy no jewelry.
My wife said figures we get behind one of them. I said yea but you do not know her situation maybe her husband just left her who knows.Or he lost his job . There are times when i think it is Ok for someone to use them.Comment -
Problem with this board is you have people that have never dealt with being poor or being around people of color. They talk about govt. handouts as if it is coming out of their pockets. But are to ignorant about how much we give to corporations. There was some teabag congresswoman that was bitching about welfare. Then it came out that she was getting a 750,000 farm subsidy. If you believe in the bible than how are you going to meet your maker. He will surely say to get out of there because you have a bad heart. If you don't believe in the bible than how can you look in the mirror at yourself. the oracle who has been blessed in life gives away a boatload of money. Steve jobs who loved money died a horrible death with all that money. As someone who was blessed to make good money; I can tell you your health is the most important.Comment -
It's a very complex plan...it's called cut em off. If some moronic lazy bums that are totally dependent on the government starve...they starve...most others will become self-sufficient. I mean seriously ONLY IN THE USA could someone ask how does the govt stop it....THEY FUCKIN TELL PPL THE GRAVY TRAIN OF LIFELONG WELFARE HAS LEFT THE TRACKS AND WE GOT A NEW SYSTEM IN TOWN CALLED WORK OR STARVE! THIS NEW PROGRAM STARTS IN 3 MONTHS SO START FILLING OUT JOB APPLICATIONS OR GET IN LINE AT THE SOUP KITCHEN BUMS!
If you're a normal human being this will not make one bit of difference but if you're a lazy welfare abuser shooting for lifelong welfare dependency this will have you shaking in your boots.Comment -
Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime....look despite their destructive reality public schools were not intended to just be gang member hangouts and aspiring rapper training programs...the intention was to educate everyone so that they could have the tools necessary to survive and live independently. We need to get back to our core values and quit creating a criminal welfare dependent society.
Btw chico you're awfully full of yourself considering you spent your entire Christian life as a swindling financial adviser (best financial advice would have been to tell your clients to RUN) and insurance broker who spends his days jacking ppls premiums up and milking them out of their money. Just remember that when casting stones and when burning in tha hellfire
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DEAR DUMB ASS I sold car insurance, home owners insurance and a other types. Agents don't set the premiums companies do. I know that is above your janitorial mind but every company is expected to make a profit. We are not a socialist country. When you go to your public employer to ask for a raise if your company isn't profitable than you quit being in business But I guess with your 7th grade education you were never taught that. The problem with guys like you is that you have always depended on society to take care of you. That is why your an hourly employee. I'm not knocking you because it takes someone with big balls to go out on their own. But please don't knock people that have done their own thing. It must suck to be you worried that any hood guy is smarter than you. Also they can do your job better. So make sure you wash those windows really good today gomer pyle mfer.Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime....look despite their destructive reality public schools were not intended to just be gang member hangouts and aspiring rapper training programs...the intention was to educate everyone so that they could have the tools necessary to survive and live independently. We need to get back to our core values and quit creating a criminal welfare dependent society.
Btw chico you're awfully full of yourself considering you spent your entire Christian life as a swindling financial adviser (best financial advice would have been to tell your clients to RUN) and insurance broker who spends his days jacking ppls premiums up and milking them out of their money. Just remember that when casting stones and when burning in tha hellfireComment -
Republicans Created Welfare, Not Democrats
It's become common knowledge now: The Republicans are beholden to specials interests - corporations and the wealthiest among us. The Democrats represent the average working people and the needy, those who were once averaging working people too - before the Republicans drove them into poverty. Most of us aren't rich, so if you have a job now (and could also lose it like 15 million other Americans have so far), then why would you even vote for a Republican? (Unless of course, you really believe that one day you'll have a very good chance of becoming a wealthy CEO of a major American-based multi-national corporate conglomerate.)
For decades the Republicans have enabled American corporations to reduce average middle-class incomes to increase corporate profit margins as the cost of living has risen, pushing many into poverty (and forcing them to use government social services), while at the same time the Republicans were pushing legislation to reduce those services, making it almost impossible for them to survive.
It was the Republicans who created the welfare state by outsourcing jobs - thus driving more people into unemployment. It was the Republicans who created the welfare state by busting labor unions and depressing wages for common working people. It was the Republicans who created the welfare state by allowing the cost-of-living to sky-rocket so much over the last 30 years, all to enrich the corporations more.
In turn, this forced millions of working Americans into poverty and made them co-dependent on government services such as jobless benefits, Medicaid, and food stamps - and drove many into early retirement for reduced Social Security benefits at the age 62 - all to enrich the corporations more.
Then after the Republicans created this welfare state, they attacked those in the welfare state by attempting to deny them of all the government benefits they needed just to survive, while at the same time, allowing the corporations (and wealthiest 2%) have more tax breaks to further under-fund the federal, state, and local governments - denying the funding of all these social services.
The Republicans, for the last 30 years, have been successfully waging a two-pronged attack on the average working American...squeezing every penny they could from them, sucking them dry, and then leaving them to shrink, shrivel and die on the vine. Then afterward, denying them help from their fellow countrymen with reduced government services...and vilifying them as just lazy free-loaders on the government dole, just looking for a free government "hand-out". The Republicans and their corporate masters have been winning this class war that they have cleverly waged on the American working people.
It's wasn't enough that the Republicans (who are only beholding to the banks, corporations, and the wealthy) had killed off the middle-class for average working Americans and reduced them to poverty as the "new poor" in America, but also the Republicans have been attempting to deprive them of any humane existence at all.
The Republicans are now trying to prevent us from curbing ever more Wall Street abuse, greed, and corruption by under-funding the SEC to investigated and prosecute all the other Bernie Madoffs, those who helped destroyed the economy and housing market for the middle-class and average working Americans.
The radical Republicans have been accusing the liberals as being the "radicals", when really, who has been doing the most to break the backs of working Americans, increasing their "worker productivity" (squeezing more), just to enable the few to further enrich themselves that much more?
It was the Republicans who created the welfare state, the Democrats only supported "welfare" (social services) to care for the needs of those that the GOP created and wanted to completely destroy.
Let's be honest, who are the REAL "radicals" in this country today? The greedy Wall Streeters and corporate CEOs (with the help of their political GOP enablers)? Or the average working people who only wanted to earn an honest and decent living...like they once could 30 years ago?
Oh, and don't you know? The Republicans also created the CORPORATE Welfare State.
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