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The 46 Million Foodstamp Man March - An Infographic
America has over 46 million people on Food Stamps. The food stamps program's real name is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The Food Stamp program is "hidden" from view through Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Cards that work just as credit cards. This article visualizes the size of the program and the vast amounts of people participating.
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they are fostering a welfare state with it's "citizens"
while at the same time, the carpenter, brick layer and roofer that wants to work is being squeezed
tell it to the corporate .gov't - it's all part of a grand systemic equalising plan, including getting people to resent those who might seem to benefit simply by virtue of being born outside the imaginary nationstate lines. . .
Those damnable THEMS anyway.
THEY keep taking until there's nothing left for all of the WE who are just honest, law-abiding folk who never dreamed of gaming the system or taking something that wasn't ours and nobody was looking.
Your statement reminds me of Obama’s comment when asked about H-1Bs and unemployed engineers in America: “What job shortage?”
Yet, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that, counting only U.S.-born individuals, there are 101,000 with an engineering degree who are unemployed, another 244,000 who are not working or not looking for work and therefore not counted in unemployment statistics, and an additional 1.47 million who have an engineering degree but are not working as an engineer.
In the face of that, Obama has made expanding H-1Bs a feature of his re-election campaign, according to a report by Phyllis Schlafly in H-1B Visas Take American Jobs, “trying to broaden the program that already allows the importation of 65,000 H-1B visa aliens annually.”Says Schlafly:
“A good example of how the H-1B visa system works was described in a lawsuit filed against Molina Healthcare Inc., which handles Medicaid and Medicare paperwork for the government, and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., which recruits H-1B workers in India. On Jan. 14, 2010, one day after the Department of Labor approved Molina's application for 40 H-1B workers, Molina fired approximately 40 competent U.S. programmers, managers and analysts and hired 40 H-1B replacements imported by Cognizant from India.”
“That is how H-1B visas work in the real world to take jobs away from Americans,” and, I might add, buys votes for Obama and the Democrat Party.
http://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2012/03/20/h1b_visas_take_american_jobs/page/full/
My friend, who is about 60 and lives in a rural area with many farms, said that when he was a teen, all the American teenagers worked the fields. However some farmers, heavily lobbied for and pioneered expansion of immigrant labor, not so much because immigrants were cheaper than teens, they were easier to keep under thumb, worked harder, and were more likely to show up for work day-after-day.
Can an American get a job working the fields today? They sure can, but few would consider such physically intensive jobs and fewer still can tolerate it. A seasoned cucumber picker can earn $20/hr when paid by the bushel, but even the most fit will wobble home on unsteady legs by the end of the day.
What about the carpenter, bricklayer and roofer? These jobs are now subcontracted out to the bidder. It would be easy to outbid someone without paying taxes. Dontcha think?
I personally knew a woman who was a "permanent resident" for 19 years and is still here working. Now why isn't she a "citizen"? Beats the fuck out of me
Looks like a TREND to me
would you voluntarily be labeled a "citizen" if you could have knowingly avoided it?
as to the "carpenter, bricklayer, roofer" stuff - who's making bank on the backs of cheaper labour? why not focus on them, and not the folks actually doing the work for pay.
"worked harder"
and your worked harder is total bullshit. I have personally worked with these people. No different than any other fuck in this world. I have seen them literally shit all over the toilet in the mens john a FEW times. Never seen anything like that in my life. Tequila and burritos. I like tequile though...lol
I'm well acquainted with agricultural workers through my friends and my ancestors. Concerning both immigrant laborers and sons of farmers, those observations tell me that your information is incorrect, to the point that American farmers and their families have characteristically been among the hardest working, most industrious and most dependable farm workers in the world.
The American farmers’ self-reliance begot hard-working individualism and from that trait they and their descendants became the most industrious and prosperous people of the world. Now, those who would aspire to the fruits of their labors and industry are demonizing them for their own self-serving interests as they push for one-world control and governance of the world’s resources, including labor and liberty and individual sovereignty.
I only have one greenie to give.
Yes nmewn
Sometimes the most important posts (usually mine :o) get only a few greens.
And i think JR has hit the nail on the head about how hard work and what the common man can build for him/herself is always under threat... from the ancient enemy...
JR, I've played with some folks who are small Iowa (and other states) farmers who bust(ed) their asses and have a chance (because of being smart) of truly succeeding. Same-Same with some folks I know in the finger-lakes region of NY (where Hillary notoriously failed to come up with one single job).
But my friends from Aroostic County ME (where a guy who I slept with for ..., oh nvm) who used to get school breaks to pick blueberries and potatoz, now are on Maine EBT plus all of their other programs, so the invited immigrants have set up their own ghettos (in the traditional sense, and for the traditional reasons). That has let in e.g. M-13 etc.
Blind folk touching a fucked up elephant, imnsho.
- Ned
{and the immigration pollution is also in my view part of breaking down the barriers just as Francis and Richard A. laid out}
{{Lindsay broke that strategy that was metastacizing out of Columbia. There might be several lessons in here.}}
left coast is finding a shortage of crop harvesters as folks abandon the states. . .
http://whitmanpioneer.com/opinion/2012/10/04/apple-picker-shortage-highl...
http://www.opb.org/news/article/cherry-picker-shortage-leads-growers-mac...
i miss those green stamps.......those fuckers were EMBARASSING !!!!
Mexifornia is a book by college professor Victor Davis Hansen that explains how immigration – both legal and illegal – is destroying the entire state of California.
At an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington DC in 2004, the former governor of Colorado Dick Lamm related in a speech on “How to Destroy America” that if we don’t get “this immigration monster stopped quickly,” it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Nearly 3 times as many Hispanic households receive food stamps compared with non-Hispanic whites -- 29.9% compared with 10.7% -- according to a 2003 paper by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
CNN Money reported in August 2011 that “the highest concentration of food stamp users were in California, Florida, New York and Texas -- where more than 3 million residents in each state received food stamps in May (2011).” Accordingly, states with the highest Hispanic populations are: 1) California; 2) Texas; 3) Florida; 4) New York with more than half of the U.S. Latino population living within California, Texas and Florida.
Already, 72 percent of California students are of color, says the Center for American Progress. Four American states were majority-minority as of 2010: Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Texas.
As for SNAP expenditures, “from 2007-2011 spending on the SNAP program increased 135 percent to reach a cost of $78 billion in 2011 alone, according to SNAP.
Nice racist spin, but lying with statistics is the most obvious kind of propaganda.
When it comes to sheeple, divide and conquer is the easiest way to maintain status quo, doncha think?
"According to demographic data, 43% of SNAP participants are white, 33% are African-American, 19% are Hispanic, 2% are Asian, and 2% are Native American."
http://www.snaptohealth.org/snap/snap-frequently-asked-questions/
If using statistics on race is racist, then so be it. But it’s a national crisis when race has become not only an important driver in politics, in government programs and in voter registration, but also as a spectacular buildup of the welfare society.
Speaking of statistics, your analysis may be bordering on the charge you made earlier: propaganda.
I and the American Journal of Nutriton are talking percentage of demographic households that received food stamps -- Mexican households versus white households -- not the percentage of the overall population. Of course there are more whites on food stamps in that whites, for the temporary time being at least, are the largest percentage of the American population. To report SNAP figures any other way than by household, if race is to be used, is inaccurate
Well, these days, you're only half right ;-)
- Ned
The official statistics are racist enough, so to speak. African-Americans are 13% of population but make up 1/3 SNAP participants. That's not good.
It's our own damn fault!!! We benefited from cheap labor for decades. It is hurting a little more each month. We are too un-wise to stop it before it is too late. It will be interesting to see what the immigrants do when things get bad. Leave or adapt? The lazy, unskilled, ignorant whiners will all freak out and be unable to cope and put the blame in the wrong place.
centuries, actually.
"The lazy, unskilled, ignorant whiners will all freak out and be unable to cope and put the blame in the wrong place."
My GPS says theres a McDonalds right here honey...who are these people surrounding our Prius? I need to call 911!!!...no service? Wait. Stop!...why are you doing this?!? We're the "good people"...lol.
Only in delusional dreams.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/romney-campai...
Romney campaign sign set ablaze in Loudoun
http://myfox8.com/2012/10/23/guilford-county-voters-say-they-voted-for-t...
Guilford Co. voters say ballot cast for Romney came up Obama on machine
Long popcorn and bullets!
Another good reason not to vote drunk!
either MDB is all sarc or his/her idea of extra compensation pre-supposes hyper inflation...
XOR
is not necessarily ZERO.
They do not want all these people hanging out together in a bread line. They might get ideas in their head. Best to give them all a credit card and keep them from knowing one another.
dr. gonzo. of all the fun speculation i have lots of fun reading here at zh. that is briliant. i never thought of that.
according to the USDA there are currently a tad over 47 million SNAP recipients...
now, I wonder what is the magic number where even bernankebucks will no longer be able to fund what is quickly becoming wal-marts' main source of revenue.
now imagine the lay-offs once that happens, thousands of suddenly unemployed former wal-mart associates, all looking to apply for SNAP only to find that particular well has run dry.
we the people will then be required to bail out TBTF retail, in order to save SNAP thereby saving (creating) jobs for the "green shoots" recovery which will be entering it's 5th or 6th year by that point....
there will be 80 million people getting snap benefits 4 years from this election whoever wins. the labor force participation rate will be at or below 50%.
unemployment will be 4%.
ObamaRomney will claim "mission accomplished."
winning.
Um...fund? You think the fed won't be buying treasuries when the mythical bond vigilanties show up, after they take down the rest of the world?
Wal*Mart has always worked the system to their advantage, be it through local "incentives" to build a superstore, or .gov subsidising their cheap ass wages-no-benefits-crew-workers, or "Made in America" smiley happy-face dropped in favour of cheap-china imports.
you-the-people are already bailing out corporate retail as plastic debit cards are handed out to subsidise supermarkets selling corporate fud-crap, and even TacoBell lets the drivethrough swipe for wood pulp fillah. . .
In perspective, SNAP was only $71.8 Billion dolllars in 2011 for the entire year.
The FED is spending $40 Billion PER MONTH to buy Mortgage Backed Securities (toxic crap) to feed the banks and bankers.
Where is the real bread line here?
That would be "vast number of people," not "vast amounts," Demon-ocracy.info.
One glaring difference between today's Depression and the 1930's is that the bread lines were full of people that had respect for themselves and dressed in suits, compared to the lard-ass retards in skin tight sweatpants that comprise much of America today. The US has been finished for quite some time, and only the twinkies keep hope alive.
In British Columbia we have SWAP - Super Weed Assistance Program - we're high and mighty yup.
Why, that is Initiative Question No. 3 on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' November Ballot. There were sufficient legitimate signatures (despite chemically altered mental states) to cause the question to be placed on the ballot.
A'yuh.
- Ned
Seriously, knock off the annoying popup ads Tyler, please....very difficult to read on mobile and play whack a mole w the X
Says Investor’s Business Daily in Fat And Furious: Obama Pushes Food Stamps In Mexico:
“Among the materials the USDA encourages the Mexican government to use (to get the word out to Mexicans regarding food stamp availability in the U.S.) is a poster with the Orwellian title, “Food Stamps Make America Stronger.” The fact that we have an administration that believes that helps explain the economic predicament we are in."
The New American reported in August 2012:
The government has enlisted the help of the Mexican government to get the word about food stamps out to Mexicans living in the United States. Reported Joe Wolverton, quoting the Agriculture Department’s website, “USDA and the government of Mexico have entered into a partnership (begun in 2004 under the Bush Administration) to help educate eligible Mexican nationals living in the United States about available nutrition assistance.”
The agency explains the program on a web page titled “Reaching Low-Income Hispanics With Nutrition Assistance,” which reports that “Mexico will help disseminate this information through its embassy and network of approximately 50 consular offices”… to ensure that Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals working in America were apprised of how to go about qualifying and applying for food stamps.”
Beyond that, top Democrats assure Americans that food stamps stimulate the economy — ignoring the fact that the money government spends on such programs must be siphoned out of the economy to begin with.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/12325-food-stamp-rules-change-adds-$460-million-to-cost-in-fiscal-2010
the Security and Prosperity Partnership begun with Dubya, Martin & Fox, building on the NAFTA success,
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/2-security-and-prosp...
later disappeared as an acronym, but obviously not as an agenda. . .
Futile infographics; all those pallets of fiat money can be replaced with a single sheet of paper.
and give the whole country foodstamps and that is the same amount of Benny printing each month.. $40bil
Oh well all empires end.
40 odd million angry people will get more furious once they realized that the got gamed, as the Fed pumps money directly into Wall Street ala the mythological trickle down effect and/or housing ATM gift (at this current rate good for another month), but if you are watching the markets via Wall Street, you'll see it is having a wonderful time now skimming the profits from Mario's July pump and QE infinity Aug/Sept/Oct.
...but there is no soup for you.
http://youtu.be/svSGKJFSl-8
I'm carefull when I use my foodstamps. Doers not look good when you put the the bag of food into the Ferrari. My wife loves the thing we do. Were multi-millionaries but we don't give a shit. Were for ourselves and fuck the system.
have a conversation with your local party store clerk. she'll tell you that, while making minimum wage, she watches people buy soda and potato chips with their SNAP card, then pull out a $20 bill of their "own money" for a scratch-off lotto ticket. "all the time," she says. buy 2 cases of soda with your SNAP card in Michigan, empty them out back, then buy a pack of cigarettes with the 10 cent deposit return money. the creativity of man knows no bounds.
We put up with this shit instead of demanding justice.
Guess that makes us the fools.
The rabbit hole goes deeper than you think.
We send dollars to the Middle East. They send us oil. We spread that oil over our agricultural fields, making a ton of corn and food products. We then ship the food back to the Middle East (and elsewhere) to support the huge populations around the world.
In the process, the global population keeps rising and rising and the banks, oil companies, and big. ag. make out like bandits.
And if you point this out you are a "nazi" who wants people to starve.
Were also suck'in up the Medicare and SS. You don't like it! Fuck You....
This program not only benefits the individual.
Think for a moment of the massive corporate entitlements the large multinationals rely on. Each and every grocery chain benefits, as do the the food processers, General Mills, Keebler, Kraft, etc... all sucking on the gub'mint tit, fully expecting their hand out.
WE ARE FUCKED!
This program is not going to get smaller.
By design, the enablers and handlers created a massive welfare state, from bottom to top.
Imagine when they "officially" open the border and make Mexico a state.
Did you get your Ameros?
http://www.amerocurrency.com/buyameros.html
Tequila and Burritos for Everyone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDZBzvTDhGU
Anybody who is so obsessed with immigrants is showing themself to be part of the Duopoly, since word is Obama has the hispanic vote. As if the other half is the answer.
Personally, I don't really care anymore. The sooner the better that they open the border. The working man in this country is taking a beating. Them Mexicans can be just as lazy as anyone else.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/video/how-is-the-morale-at-goldman-sachs-JJ39rX...
Goldman’s Cooper: Why People Stay at Our Firm
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just to punctuate the point, at the link it clearly insists
“our number one asset is our people”. so we can see people
are assets or collateral depending on the leverage, the market
and the deal being made.
those people being outed for “ripping the faces off” or “blowing
up” their clients. it is what they call “market making” at the
highest levels of ownership today, revered as power. fest. destiny.
… did she say “special sauce?” yea, she really did
and one more hideous display of narcissistic projection as
it has entirely overwhelmed and possessed the host.
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24 October 2012
Greg Smith of Goldman Fame Walks Into the Wall Street Lion’s Den
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/10/greg-smith-walks-into-l...
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so, people are objects or commodities in a volatile market?
this is what we pray to, what we revere and respect?
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I think we all knew inside our hearts that Thatcher’s a necrophiliac
Posted on October 24, 2012 by maxkeiser
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http://maxkeiser.com/2012/10/24/i-think-knew-inside-hearts-thatchers-nec...
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and this ..
Pro-Romney Firm’s Purchase Of Voting Machine Company Raises Alarms
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/pro-romney-firm-voting-machines...
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if the choice is not clear to the voters the owners certainly
have the means to declare a clear victory. then they will
proceed with extreme conviction and ongoing prejudice
, cleaning up their balance sheets and what not.
upvote for mentioning "Thatcher" and "necrophiliac" in the same breath. . .
Jonathan Edwards: Sunshine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyTJqn7GT5s&feature=relmfu
YouTube - Here's a Voter Who Wouldn't Take It Anymore
man checks and credit cards have changed the world
OT but I'm just watching some Capital Account (somehow get it on some obscure channel on comcast here) and that Mike Norman keynesian clown is pretty much acting like Biden in the VP debate x 10. To him, money printing is fine because goods and services are going up more than dollars printed are. So many things wrong with that 'argument' not the least of which is that inflation is a heck of a lot higher than .gov's definition of it.
'An Act of Treason ?!' Deliberately orchestrated too destroy America through Keynesian liberated obfuscation!
'Reiterating the obvious through insanity justifies only ones master... that of a fugacious moment-- severing ones illusions from reality, where the latter was forever and always the enablers narcissistic lover?'
"The following Accord principle for Fed credit policy: (1) liquidity assistance should not fund insolvent institutions [1*BS/ WAMU/ ML/ Wachovia, et.el., etc,.etc]; (2) credit policy should not fund expenditures that ought to get explicit Congressional authorization [2** FOIA/ Sanders and Paul expose`]; (3) Congress should not direct to the Fed to transfer assets to the Treasury in order to reduce the Federal deficit [3*** straight forward, no ambiguity... and needing on further explanation, period!] END
http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/economic_quarterly/2001...
Thankyou Tyler
;-)>
Sanders and Paul, strange bedfellows on Fed bashing. Could my dream of libertarians and progressives joining to defeat the duopoly ever come true?
Hey shmucks, stop HAVING LARGE FAMILES so you can feed 1 or 2 of your :
adolescent, anklebiter, babe, baby, bairn, bambino, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, dickens, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, minor, mite, moppet, neonate, nestling, newborn, nipper, nursling, offspring, preteen, progeny, pubescent, shaver, small fry, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, tadpole, teen, teenager, teenybopper, toddler, tot, tyke, urchin, whippersnapper, young one, youngster, youth
and not have to go begging to big O'DADDY to put food in their mouths.
Kapish, you imbeciles?
The Gooberment subsidises NFL Football, there is another clue.