Shocking: 28 million Americans on food stamps, the most ever

[Mega]

http://www.independent.co.uk:80/news...on-803095.html

VERY UPSETTING, THESE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO FACE THIS!
Mike

[zoog]

Re: Shocking: 28 million Americans on food stamps, the most ever

http://www.independent.co.uk:80/news...on-803095.html

VERY UPSETTING, THESE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO FACE THIS!
Mike

Context can be enlightening...

[Guest]

Re: Shocking: 28 million Americans on food stamps, the most ever

Context can be enlightening...

Thanks for saving me from having to put that in text (since I don't do graphs or attachments well). I was about to have to look it up to confirm my suspicions.

[metalman]

Re: Shocking: 28 million Americans on food stamps, the most ever

Thanks for saving me from having to put that in text (since I don't do graphs or attachments well). I was about to have to look it up to confirm my suspicions.

mine, too... the fake 'recovery' since 2001 sent prices through the roof and raised food stamp participation by 30%, from 6% to 9% of the population.

are you serious? almost one of out 10 americans is on food stamps?

[pwcmba]

Re: Shocking: 28 million Americans on food stamps, the most ever

It's a growing market!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,7896640.story

[don]

Re: Shocking: 28 million Americans on food stamps, the most ever

Who said there weren't green shoots

[zoog]

Re: Shocking: 28 million Americans on food stamps, the most ever

Who said there weren't green shoots

Both customers and retailers say it helps that the stigma once attached to pulling out paper coupons is gone.

An EBT card can be used just as discretely as a debit card. It is indistinguishable and efficient.

Government helping people feel more comfortable about their reduced standard of living. For years we've relied on credit to finance a middle class lifestyle. Now we increasingly rely on Uncle Sam, but still want to maintain the illusion that everything is fine.

As of June 2009, there were 35,122,123 people in the program.

[rj1]

Re: Shocking: 28 million Americans on food stamps, the most ever

Context can be enlightening...

Context from Mr. "Start a Thread, Put Up a Link, Ambiguous One Sentence Statement, and Sign My Name" Man? Surely you jest.