You are being sold a pup

[thunderdownunder]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100507/...ood_usa_stamps

Food-stamp tally nears 40 million, sets record (Ok 1 in 8.)
Follow me here---- thats 12.5 % Families (and single people in America) actually getting aid to just eat. Now a family is generally regarded as Mother and Father + 2.5 children - Do the Maths and allow for the single people
Now I know Governments, they give F#%K all away until you can prove, in triplicate that you need the funds then give you half.
Ive done a back of the bar tab bill and it tells me you DO NOT have a 9.9% unemployment rate ------------------- By a long way.
Green shots my ass, good people eating grass to survive.
I want the Truth, the Whole truth and nothing but the Truth, So help me God. Because you are being lied at,through and diddled and you can't see these little truths that slip through the Censorship. Matrix has nothing on your Media - Lying snakes in the grass.
Look I may be wrong and they count every person who is listed through the parents and if thats so (Clarification Needed State side) You have 12.5% that is so disadvantaged that Pride, Hope and Prayer have failed and the last hope is to jump through flaming hurdles to just frigging eat. That Is so third World that you should be ashamed. You Guys are the rest of the Worlds hope. Get off your Fat Butts and agitate for Christs sake. This is appalling. Wealthiest Country in the World I don't think so !. I give not a jot For Lloyd B, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, JPM, GM or that wonderful company of death Raytheon. You need to give a hand up to your people not hand out. This is Disgusting ,forget everything and fix this, lest they eat you.

[Master Shake]

Re: You are being sold a pup

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100507/...ood_usa_stamps

Food-stamp tally nears 40 million, sets record (Ok 1 in 8.)
Follow me here---- thats 12.5 % Families (and single people in America) actually getting aid to just eat. Now a family is generally regarded as Mother and Father + 2.5 children - Do the Maths and allow for the single people
Now I know Governments, they give F#%K all away until you can prove, in triplicate that you need the funds then give you half.
Ive done a back of the bar tab bill and it tells me you DO NOT have a 9.9% unemployment rate ------------------- By a long way.
Green shots my ass, good people eating grass to survive.
I want the Truth, the Whole truth and nothing but the Truth, So help me God. Because you are being lied at,through and diddled and you can't see these little truths that slip through the Censorship. Matrix has nothing on your Media - Lying snakes in the grass.
Look I may be wrong and they count every person who is listed through the parents and if thats so (Clarification Needed State side) You have 12.5% that is so disadvantaged that Pride, Hope and Prayer have failed and the last hope is to jump through flaming hurdles to just frigging eat. That Is so third World that you should be ashamed. You Guys are the rest of the Worlds hope. Get off your Fat Butts and agitate for Christs sake. This is appalling. Wealthiest Country in the World I don't think so !. I give not a jot For Lloyd B, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, JPM, GM or that wonderful company of death Raytheon. You need to give a hand up to your people not hand out. This is Disgusting ,forget everything and fix this, lest they eat you.

People eating grass to survive? LOL. America has the fattest poor people on earth.

[thunderdownunder]

Re: You are being sold a pup

America has the fattest poor people on earth. You laugh at that. They are fat for a reason. Read what I wrote. You should not have people 1:8 on food stamps. You laugh at the PIGS of Europe but in reality these figures show you are far far below them in the sty. This is a Depression, its just you hide it away.

[dummass]

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People eating grass to survive? LOL. America has the fattest poor people on earth.

This is a widely misunderstood topic. A healthy body that receive's proper nutrition, does not get fat! Fat people, believe it or not, are malnourished.

[chr5648]

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Food stamps are another illusion of helping the poor and 'disadvantaged'. They are nothing more than another subsidy for the agricultural industrial complex and the massive corn lobby. Big gov and big biz, you can find them everywhere.

This is a widely misunderstood topic. A healthy body that receive's proper nutrition, does not get fat! Fat people, believe it or not, are malnourished.

Very true, thank you corn lobby.

[thriftyandboringinohio]

Re: You are being sold a pup

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100507/...ood_usa_stamps


You need to give a hand up to your people not hand out .

This became a topic on Mother's day last week, with my 85 year old stepmom giving first hand accounts of the depression, how her family in Appalachia survived only through president Roosevelt's public works programs, WPA and CCC. We concluded that such would make sense today. When unemployment is low, it’s more practical to just send checks to scattered individuals out of work for a few weeks. But when unemployment is widespread and long term it looks more sensible to pay wages to create public infrastructure as was done in the 1930's. Taxpayers get something tangible for the dole money and people would be working instead of sitting. Many of the WPA and CCC projects are still in daily use these 70 years later. We have roads, bridges, pipelines, school buildings and flood control dams in need of attention. Today such projects require work from engineers, accountants, IT people, many of these are on the dole now.

[Master Shake]

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This became a topic on Mother's day last week, with my 85 year old stepmom giving first hand accounts of the depression, how her family in Appalachia survived only through president Roosevelt's public works programs, WPA and CCC. We concluded that such would make sense today. When unemployment is low, it’s more practical to just send checks to scattered individuals out of work for a few weeks. But when unemployment is widespread and long term it looks more sensible to pay wages to create public infrastructure as was done in the 1930's. Taxpayers get something tangible for the dole money and people would be working instead of sitting. Many of the WPA and CCC projects are still in daily use these 70 years later. We have roads, bridges, pipelines, school buildings and flood control dams in need of attention. Today such projects require work from engineers, accountants, IT people, many of these are on the dole now.

Good luck with that. When it was proposed several years ago that welfare recipients and those living in "the projects" actually do some work to earn their handout, like picking up trash and doing minor maintenance in their project, you would have thought that slavery was being re-instituted. There is a deep, inbred sense of entitlement among America's dependent class.

[Master Shake]

Re: You are being sold a pup

This is a widely misunderstood topic. A healthy body that receive's proper nutrition, does not get fat! Fat people, believe it or not, are malnourished.

Irrelevent. They made bad/stupid choices about what to buy with their food stamps: corn curls and orange soda instead of rice, beans, and cheese. They are not starving and could live off their accumulated blubber for quite some time.

[Master Shake]

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America has the fattest poor people on earth. You laugh at that. They are fat for a reason. Read what I wrote. You should not have people 1:8 on food stamps. You laugh at the PIGS of Europe but in reality these figures show you are far far below them in the sty. This is a Depression, its just you hide it away.

I don't laugh at the PIIGS, but I do wonder what the fuck "being sold a pup" means.

[Diarmuid]

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I don't laugh at the PIIGS, but I do wonder what the fuck "being sold a pup" means.

be sold a pup (British informal) to be tricked into buying something that is not worth anything. Swindled due to lack of due diligence. I'm afraid you've been sold a pup there. You should always get an expert to look over a second-hand car before you buy it.

Origins

SOLD A PUP
If you bought a piglet the seller placed it in a bag or sack. Sometimes, with his hands out of sight, the seller would slip a puppy into the sack. If you were swindled in that way you were sold a pup.

[ggirod]

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SOLD A PUP
If you bought a piglet the seller placed it in a bag or sack. Sometimes, with his hands out of sight, the seller would slip a puppy into the sack. If you were swindled in that way you were sold a pup.

That is, unless somebody let the cat out of the bag.

[thunderdownunder]

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Good luck with that. ............There is a deep, inbred sense of entitlement among America's dependent class.

And now the April deficit is in and it tells of further troubles. Sweet mother of God I want a credit card like that. Dependent class seems to be the whole Nation.
Can you say Unsustainable

[thriftyandboringinohio]

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Good luck with that. When it was proposed several years ago that welfare recipients and those living in "the projects" actually do some work to earn their handout, like picking up trash and doing minor maintenance in their project, you would have thought that slavery was being re-instituted. There is a deep, inbred sense of entitlement among America's dependent class.

First, you're probably correct that it would never be accepted politically.
Second, you may miss the point. Those recieving unemployment checks now are not the dependent class. They are people who usually work. I expect political oposition would come from the right, with howls of "government takeover" and socialism".

[globaleconomicollaps]

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you provide free day care and I will be behind your workfare project. until then It doesn't sound so hot.

[Starving Steve]

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Maybe if the central bankers would wise-up and raise interest rates to 7% for new federal funds, we wouldn't be in this mess. Maybe if the brain-dead morons running the central banks would raise federal funds to 3% in real terms, we wouldn't be blowing-up bubbles and rewarding speculators.

I keep wondering: after a lifetime of work and saving, why am I starving? And I just get madder and madder at the governing class, especially at the economists who led us into this economic swamp. Why am I getting zero or even a negative real return on my savings and taking risks?

My blood is boiling, and I think voters around the world are outraged at what we are now experiencing.

I despise conservatism, especially in America, especially the Republicans, but how could voters now be anything but outraged at these deficits? The bail-out of Goldman-Sachs Bank and AIG, Nancy Pelosi and la TARP just make my blood boil. The Putz from Princeton and his old boss, Alan Greenspan, just make me boil..... Students in universities should walk out of their economics classes and organize sit-ins.

Has anyone in Canada and the USA noticed the food prices now hyper-inflating away to the stars? Hyper-inflation and zero interest rates--- a fatal combination to be sure.