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Food Stamp Use Surges By Most In Years As Alabama Foodstamp Recipients Double In May
It appears that GDP data revisions are not the only thing that the administration enjoys fudging with in order to make the Chinese ministry of Truth seem like a real ministry of truth. After last month the data for April food stamp recipients indicated the we may, just may, be reaching an inflection point in the foodstamp participation following a mere 60 thousand jump in those receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), today's just released data confirmed that the BLS and BEA may have had a hand or two when determining this latest data series. Because the just announced jump in foodstamp usage of over 1.1 million is entirely out of the blue, and as the chart below shows, is the highest single monthly jump in Foodstamp participation since mid 2009, when eligibility requirements were adjusted. Yes, that's 45.8 million people (obviously an all time record) living on foodstamps which amount to the whopping $133.80 per person (an increase of $0.54 M/M) and $283.65 (an increase of $1.29) per household. Obviously, annualizing the latest monthly rate of 1.1 million people, it means that over 13 million Americans will live on about one third what the cheapest iPad costs in about a year.
But wait, there's more. Digging into the numbers reveals something pecuiliar: virtually the entire surge in monthly SNAP participation is due to one state alone: Alabama, which saw those living on foodstamps jump from 868K to 1.762MM. That's 36% of Alabama's population. Is this merely a grand rehearsal for the Jefferson County bankruptcy? Did the state see a mass surge in foodstamp use as hundreds of thousands are trying to game the system in advance of what will be an apic Chapter 9? And if yes, what does that mean for all the other states which will promptly follow in the footsteps of Jefferson County, and for US foodstamp participation?
Which begs the question: will Obama be the first president under whose rule total foodstamp usage hit 100 million? Surely, by then there will be a Nobel price for destroying one's middle class better and faster than any communist in the history of the world, so at least there will be something to memorialize it with.
h/t Papa and John L
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and brushed your teeth with pine tar
did someone say Piggly Wiggly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXcuqdgOgz8&feature=player_detailpage
uhhhh...im kinda pissed off about the whole "food stamp" program...it's hard enough for me to get laid while im explaining to someone that other people are hungry...good luck guys...SNAP
beg to differ dude...SNAP
This actually is transitory. April 27, 2011, the worst natural disaster in our states recorded history, shut down a LOT of factories, restaurants, dry cleaners, gas stations. A lot of people lost their homes and their employers on the same day.
North Alabama track map:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/hun/stormsurveys/2011-04-27/tracks/HUN_prelim_tracks_small_web_2.jpg
Mid Alabama track map:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/bmx/GIS/042711_OutbreakMap.jpg
Donate to the red cross if you can.
ohh that makes possible sense. Forgot about those...it actually could be the weather!
When Katrina hit they set up a giant food stamp registration expo at the civic center. Never seen it so easy for so many to get food stamps, and their was no shame in it because all industry was shut down for repair work. Check the stats on that one. The food stamps only lasted for a month unless you reapplied for extended food stamp benefits.
Well the tornados hit end of April and this report was for May...so if it continues in June (which we won't know until November) then it is something other than tornados...or the qualifiers have changed or some as yet to be determined cause.
I am a storm survivor in a different state, thanks for posting this and reminding me what is what.
I would have forgotten too if it wasn't for the daily reminder I have from living here.
I hate food stamps. I hate that somehow there are people that, after 20 years on the dole, never "get back on their feet" ( how hard are they trying after xx years?)
This, however, is the kind of disaster that justifies food stamps. Their would be a lot of starving kids in Alabama without them right now.
And the other problem we are having is that a lot of the LARGE facilities that employed hundreds, are having second thoughts about rebuilding. Here is one that finally decided to rebuild this morning, after a promise of a big tax break from the state:
http://www.franklincountytimes.com/2011/08/02/wrangler-plant-will-be-rebuilt/
<-------- I donated
<-------- I don't tip. I don't believe in it.
This is a very large disaster across many states and Red Cross workers are deploying from all over the country to help. Many people have suffered tremendous loss and are depending on the Red Cross for assistance. The Red Cross is helping people today and will still be helping them in the weeks ahead as they try to get back on their feet. This severe weather has been non-stop for several weeks, leaving devastation across many states. Since the beginning of April, more than 2,500 Red Cross workers have assisted with relief and recovery efforts on 23 operations, stretching across more than half of the country. They have:
DONATE HERE TO THE ALABAMA RED CROSS
http://www.alredcross.org/general.asp?SN=8722&OP=8724&SUOP=15620&IDCapitulo=DRGYJ0Q5XZ
i've donated...proudly. Folks, T-town (tuscaloosa) is still in shambles...the more rural areas will NEVER recover (see waveland and diamond head, mississippi). all my issues with organized Christianity notwithstanding, the collective efforts of the church have been meritable if not miraculous; but, needless to say, much work remains. for the most part, that means materials -- which means money.
PS to my fellow SAEs: the University of Alabama just so happens to be your MOTHER MU, bitchez! so pony up, Phi Alphas! (from my experience, most finance guys were also frat boys...not trying to start some sort of petty Greek vs. GDI thing)
perhaps anonomity is best; we can help just fine from the faceless fringe. moreover, as JC said, 'when it comes to givin, it's best that your right hand not know what the left is up to'. Christ was no fool, He knew all the Good Stuff comes from the left.
Hedgeless,
May God bless you. But, if He fails to find favor with you, I'll be making my August donation to ZH in your honor (it'll be mid month, mr. durden; tithing is tricky, and it's all about timing).
half-step, mississippi up-town toodle-oo/
hello, baby, i'm gone good bye/
have a cup of rock n rye/
farewell to you ole southern skies/
i'm on my way,
janus
Hi MsCreant. Hope you're still getting along ok.
I am, thanks for asking. Got the house removed, the land cleared of other big trees, we are prepping for geothermal. It is going slower than I would like but we are very okay.
This Alabamian completely lost his home on 4/27 and has been having to battle State Farm tooth and nail ever since (I'm gonna win!). As a long time (2 years), but mostly passive ZHer who follows regulars like you daily, sometimes I wish we weren't so anonymous so we could help each other . . .
did you say State Farm? you're gonna need a really expensive lawyer.
i was friends with Trent Lott's daughter in college, have been to his desolated place on the coast (pre-desolation...tacky kitch EVERYWHERE in the Lott home), and can tell you that it was an open and shut case for SF to pay; but, still, the former majority leader of the US Senate was force-fucked with a bright-green pine cone over katrina a la State Farm...there may have been a resolution since 05, but the point stands: FIRE is (are) an devouring flame that does not esteem persons.
PS the new AG here in bama ain't yer friend.
prima facie, bitchez!
need some unskilled labor? i show up drunk, and late, but...i've got a good feeling about this!
That is doubtful. Many of them were barely surviving before the disaster. How will they "get back on their feet" in the middle of a new recession?
Recovery in sight!
http://www.aintmymedia.com/
How do you eat with no teeth?
Same way your bouncy avatar services your unit....
it's pronounced "teeph"
Your avatar has the answer(s)!
Hey, you might be findin' out with that smart-ass Yankee attitude.
e-Tough Guy alert
Baby take your teeth out. MOO-AHHH!
Zappa of course.
http://youtu.be/nc66EzWzM0o
Zappa's face does not belong on this rabid rightwing hate-jerkoff website.
Somewhere, he's laughing at you for not understanding him or his music, whatsoever.
You might want to start with his autobiography, "The Real Frank Zappa Book," to get a more direct expression of his ideas and political leanings if you don't have the wit to read into the beautiful [and vicious] subtlety of the content of his songs.
As for the rest of you, try harder. Your supposed recollections of welfare queens and government moochers are about as stale as Reagan's corpse. Grow a little courage and just come out and express which races and creeds you'd like to kill. It'll help you unite with other nazi wannabes via the wondrous power of Google analytics...that and identify your "community" for what it actually is: a semi-affluent and boorishly bigoted armchair-investor support group. Forget analysis, guys. You already know what you want to believe. You wouldn't even need to visit this site if it weren't for your deep-seated insecurities that require constant affirmation. Enjoy your hateful wankery.
I am pretty sure you are welcome here. based on the following facts:
I do think gold is kinda creepy and is not money. They let me post here. The Federal reserve is tax free and has gold.
The arch nemesis of this interwebs site is Jim Cramer, but he has a tax free charity that invests in gold.
The leader of the Tea party has an LLM in taxation and likes gold and worked for reagans opponent, Jimmy carter.
Zappa is pleased.
gold is no creepier than plutonium...elemental, my dear.
keep up the wise folly.
reagan's opponent was not jimmy carter, it was the United States of America...but lots a folks make the same mistake, can't blame your age on that one.
zappa will never be happy; and that's sort of the point...unless i missed it.
Frank ...
I want a nasty little jewish princess
With long phony nails and a hairdo that rinses
A horny little jewish princess
With a garlic aroma that could level tacoma
Lonely inside
Well, she can swallow my pride
I want a hairy little jewish princess
With a brand new nose, who knows where it goes
I want a steamy little jewish princess
With over-worked gums, who squeaks when she cums
I don't want no troll
I just want a yemenite hole
I want a darling little jewish princess
Who don't shit about cooking and is arrogant looking
A vicious little jewish princess
To specifically happen with a pee-pee that's snappin
All up inside
I just want a princess to ride
Awright, back to the top...everybody twist
I want a funky little jewish princess
A grinder; a bumper, with a pre-moistened dumper
A brazen little jewish princess
With titanic tits, and sand-blasted zits
She can even be poor
So long as she does it with four on the floor
(vapor-lock)
I want a dainty little jewish princess
With a couple of sisters who can raise a few blisters
A fragile little jewish princess
With roumanian thighs, who weasels n lies
For two or three nights
Wont someone send me a princess who bites
Wont someone send me a princess who bites
Wont someone send me a princess who bites
Wont someone send me a princess who bites
I don't want no troll
I just want a yemenite hole
You may want to add a comment about this song and Zappa's conflict with the ADL before posting lyrics without context. I'm sure the Nazis here will enjoy these lyrics without any pesky historical reality.
Since we're posting some of Frank's words, here's a few more worth applying within the context of this conversation:
"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open."
"Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity."
"If you wind up with a boring misrerable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your preacher or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT."
"The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that's happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe ... I really think that. … When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun."
snap-o-licious!
I will barter to breast feed.
>> How do you eat with no teeth?
Same way you think with no brain.
Anecdotal traffic report. I am on the road a lot. After the 2008 debacle, ALL traffic dropped to almost nothing. Excruciatingly slow, the truck traffic ticked up barely. It was nice for awhile, no shoppers, old geezers clogging up the day time roads. Then, "consumer" traffice bumped up, usually after 12pm, when the nonworking got up out of bed. I was wondering where they were getting the money for gas to drive around all day when unemployed. Now, stay off the roads on the first of every month. All the goobermint $$ gets doled out and traffic is terrible. Till about the fifth, when we are back to early morning traffic nice, afternoon traffic always bad. Gas must still not be expensive enough.
I noticed the same thing. I walk my dogs every morning and not a morning would go by without us almoat getting run over. Now some mornings we don't see a single car.
Send me your address and I will be glad to swing by every Wednesday morning and attempt to run you and your dog down. Will a black Hummer be suitable or would you rather I swing by in the Caddy? Perhaps a few other ZHers could help pick up the slack on my off days??
Thanks, but no thanks. My medical deductable is pretty high, and I don't need any pre-existing conditions next time around.
Anecdotal traffic report, huh? I wish I had your worldview when I was stuck for almost three hours trying to get over the GW bridge when they closed just *one* of the ramp lanes down for construction.
Note: most of this is traffic through NYC; not into it.
Going to pontificate about global warming on the next cold day? Sheesh.
The four horsemen of Obama's Apocalypse:
Foodstamp numbers, unemployment numbers, gas prices, home prices
ah, so who benefits off of the food stamp program? oh, yes jpmorgan.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-more-americans-that-go-o...
Buy silver and you won´t need food stamps. As a side-effect CRASH JPM.
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North Dakota is losing weight.
spam will go back to just spam. traded on the black market
Sweet home, Alabama.
Did everyone forget about the worst tornado outbreak in history that swept across the state of Alabama on the evening of 4/27/11? It really wasn't that long ago. Although it didn't stay in the media for long, and the true scale of the devastation was never covered in the media, I'm somewhat disturbed that it seems to have faded from the collective consciousness of even the most well informed of citizens. I've heard the damage being compared to Katrina, but spread over a greater area. It will take years for them to rebuild, and in an economy that was already one of the most depressed in the nation, you can be sure there will be elevated food stamp usage for some time to come in the state.
see my post above, but you are correct
The media had a pretty good bead on covering one of the worst of the storms, Tuscaloosa, but when Osama was killed, the devastation in Alabama got shoved out of the news cycle. The damage across this state makes Katrina look like a cake walk. Seriously.
Thanks to both of you.
Talked to a friend from there a couple weeks ago. Yes, the devastation is horrendous. And yes, the MSM blew it off for OBL. My friend, who is a VERY strong person, was shattered. She was actually getting angry with me, cuz no one is paying attention to what a hardship they are having. I was clueless too, I remember seeing the news about it, but didn't realize the impact. So, remember, this fall, when the banksters are getting their newly printed bonuses, that money could have been going to rebuild areas trashed by the storms, instead of a few more $10K hookers and blow, gold plated toilet seats and another yacht. This country is so fucked.
My sig on TF for the past few years: The banksters thank you for your sacrifice. Their bonuses this year will be epic and record breaking and they shall think of you fondly as they pull into the garage of their mansion in the new Ferrari that they gifted to themselves in your honor.
Never forget that folks. Ever. Because there will come a day.
You are more right than you know in contrasting the prosperity of the Wall Street banksters with the increasing poverty of the people of Alabama. JP Morgan is the firm that sold the complex interest rate derivatives to Jefferson County, which of course blew up in their faces during the financial meltdown, and are a big reason why the county is now on the brink of default. Party on banksters... just beware that people are waking up to your malicious exploitation, and someday it will all come back to you.
As an Alabama tornado victim who lost his house and 5 of his 6 precious oak trees, I can attest to how screwed up the system is. My State Farm homeowners insurance has already conceded $103,000 more than their first insulting settlement offer and we're still battling while my ruins are molding. Total estimated insured losses in the state are estimated at $4 billion, yet State Farm, one insurer, is still trying to screw me along with countless others despite earning $8 billion in 2010. The biggest sham is FEMA. The MAXIMUM payout under ANY circumstance is $30,200. So, if your house, cars, and all your possessions were blown away and you had no insurance, the most FEMA will ever give you is $30,200 (I'm not sure if this number is published, but it came directly from a hat wearing horse's mouth). So, the big banks and big business get trillions in their moment of need. Mainstreet? We get insulting pennies on the dollar when making all of us little guys whole would be inconsequential in the big scheme of things. WTF?
I live in earthquake country and don't currently have earthquake insurance.
If we have a big one I'm fucked a bit.
Not sure why you feel you're entitled to FEMA giving you anything(hypothetically speaking of you's who had no insurance), let alone bitching that it's only $30k
Am I missing somthing here?
Why should every one else shell out $30k per for people who didn't bother to carry insurance?
I don't approve of the banks getting handouts either but people need to be responsible for themselves and not look to uncle sugar because they chose not to carry insurance.
I post so rarely that I had forgotten my password, and by the time I reset it and logged in, I must have missed your posting on the matter. I haven't seen the damage in AL firsthand, but I have heard about it, and I have no doubt that these food stamp numbers are directly correlated to that disaster. It's quite rare to see Tyler and virtually everyone else here make an error in interpretation, so I felt the need to speak up. On the other hand, Tyler may be right in drawing a connection between the food stamp usage numbers and Jefferson county's impending default. That county was hit very hard, with many businesses being completely wiped out. So it would be safe to say they will see at least a short term - and possibly longer term - drop in revenues, which cannot improve their fiscal situation at all.
And along these same lines, when will the Missouri effect be, next month? Why are those numbers exploding like in Alabama? I agree with what you saying, which is basically, let's not forget the state was ripped a new one and needs all the help it can get. Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina all were blasted as well this year by cluster tornoados and we should see their numbers rising accordingly, hopefully, not like in Alabama.
YEs, another friend of mine in Joplin, we grew up together in the Chicago area, not unfamiliar with tornadoes, said the one that blew her house away left a huge trench in the soil. We were both discussing how the tornadoes are getting stronger than they were when we were young. It is pretty frightening what is happening in the Midwest with tornadoes. When I was young, the tornadoes usually hit farmland or forest. Now those places are full of people, houses, shopping malls.
I don't know if tornadoes are getting stronger. Remember that one in 1939 that dropped a house on Nancy Pelosi? Remember how pissed Hillary got?
Are you sure? Hillary and Nancy were barely int their teens in 1939. Or at least they look like it.
Sounds like global warming bullshit.
Live in certain areas, deal with tornados, or hurricanes, or earthquakes, or blizzards becasue that is where you choose to live.
Don't like it, move or deal with it.
Government NEVER gets things done in a timely manner. It took them this long to process the Bama paper work, so MO probably won't show up for a few months...
Joplin while horrific was not as widespread as the ALabama storms and the population density is much less in Joplin.
I hate to say it, but the half life of disaster stories nowadays is about -10 minutes. For christ's sake Fukushima is still belting out radiation across the U.S. but it's not even page 2 news.
That SOB Chairsatan had better not endorse QE3. Higher food and energy prices are about the last things Joe Sixpack needs.
Or else what? America will roll over and watch another episode of Jersey Shore? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Perhaps you think a revolution is in order. Let us know when you initiate the pitchfork charge.
FOODSTAMP.
Inherently plural by nature.
Even if you remove the Alabama effect, you still have over 200k new to foodstamps.
Just because MSM is forbidden to use the word "DEPRESSION" doesn't mean it isn't happening.
<<<<<<< RON PAUL 2012 >>>>>>>>
My state has an online site that those wondering if the qualify for food stamps (or snap if you prefer) can access and plug in personal info.
I used this site and played around with differing personal data; ie, income, rent cost, number in house hold, etc.
What I found was that if one's home was paid for (no mortgage) and one was not paying rent, then it was impossible to qualify for food stamps regardless of lack of income or variation of other personal parameters.
IOWs, if your home is paid off in this state and you have no income you will not get food stamps.
We don't need food stamps... but you might want to try the same experiment. The program varies by state... so I have heard.
Pimpco on CNN giving advice on how to fix things. They sound grand......unrealistic, but grand.
still shorting treasuries, eh?
Why Canada Should Close Its Borders, sorry my American friends...
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/06/reasons-canad...
OT: Explains why life is so upside down.
2 min video...hilarious...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Uju3tYS2s
Just don't be sad when the Chinese finish raping the crap out of your natural resources and you discovery your once beautiful country is in pollutive ruins from that shale extraction and pipeline ruptures. You all will frack yourselves to death if you aren't careful.
this just in:
mcdonalds planning an unprecedented wave of store openings in alabama......hmmmmmmm
Sure...corporate welfare.
more like "Big Mac emptor" now. I'm still waiting for them to bring back the hamburglar actually. that was easily the best fast food character ever. talk about a "nobel prize" for advertising.
a common poem...for a common man...
When plastered billboards scream with slogans
'fight for your country, go to battle'
When media's print assaults your senses,
'Support our leaders' shrieks and rattles…
And fools who don't know any better
Believe the old, eternal lie
That we must march and shoot and kill
Murder, and burn, and bomb, and grill…
When press begins the battle-cry
That nation needs to unify
And for your country you must die…
Dear brainwashed friend, my neighbor dear
Brother from this, or other nation
Know that the cries of anger, fear,
Are nothing but manipulation
by fat-cats, kings who covet riches,
And feed off your sweat and blood - the leeches!
When call to arms engulfs the land
It means that somewhere oil was found,
Shooting 'blackgold' from underground!
It means they found a sneaky way
To make more money, grab more gold
But this is not what you are told!
Don't spill your blood for bucks or oil
Break, burn your rifle, shout: 'NO DEAL!'
Let the rich scoundrels, kings, and bankers
Send their own children to get killed!
May your loud voice be amplified
By roar of other common men
The battle-weary of all nations:
WE WON'T BE CONNED TO WAR AGAIN!
perhaps it's 'bend and SNAP!'
All Hail the Chief. Jay Carney just annonces new Obama theme song for the 2012 election.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU7rqB9E_0M
Lyrics perfect.Thanks Freddie
Words and music by Freddie Mercury
I have sinned dear Father Father I have sinned
Try and help me Father
Won't you let me in? Liar
Nobody believes me Liar
Why don't they leave me alone?
Sire I have stolen stolen many times
Raised my voice in anger
When I know I never should
Liar oh ev'rybody deceives me
Liar why don't you leave me alone
Liar I have sailed the seas
Liar from Mars to Mercury
Liar I have drunk the wine
Liar time after time
Liar you're lying to me
Liar you're lying to me
Father please forgive me
You know you'll never leave me
Please will you direct me in the right way
Liar liar liar liar
Liar that's what they keep calling me
Liar liar liar
Oooh, let me go
Listen are you gonna listen
Mama I'm gonna be your slave
All day long
Mama I'm gonna try behave
All day long
Mama I'm gonna be your slave
All day long
I'm gonna serve you till your dying day
All day long
I'm gonna keep you till your dying day
All day long
I'm gonna kneel down by your side and pray
All day long and pray
All day long and pray
All day long and pray
All day long all day long all day long
All day long all day long all day long
All day long all day long all day long
Liar liar they never ever let you win
Liar liar everything you do is sin
Liar nobody believes you
Liar they bring you down before you begin
Now let me tell you this
Now you know you could be dead before they let you
that's a good poem dude...
George Carlin's words are truer today and 4 years ago
http://lonerangersilver.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/george-carlin-they-dont...
Brilliant. Why can't someone hack this onto the Emergency Broadcast System?
Posting this never gets old. Send it to everyone you know and love.
Even if they are awake.
Rinse and repeat.
RIP, ST. Carlin: thanks for leaving us All Your Stuff.
...double post/must have been Joe Pesci...
Some dude has jumped the WH fence! Secret service all over him.
Hope it was a test run looking for vulnerabilities.
Better luck next time.
I have been thinking about the idea given a lot of attention lately, that of freezing Social Security payments at current levels. They are afraid to make it means tested, there would be a huge backlash. What appears to be happening is a backdoor method of making Old Age Income means tested. If they ramp up Food Stamps, and Supplimental Security Income, both of which are means tested, they accompish the same thing. It will prevent higher net worth individuals from collecting as much income as they would under the recent methods of calculating benefits. Backdoor means testing of retirement benefits? Social Security payments frozen, higher Food Stamp payments...think about it....Rufusbird
Those alabama numbers make no sense whatsover. All of a sudden the state hit 35% on Foodstamps when the previous month only ~18% of the state was. Doesn't add up to me. Probably a gov't number screwup.
And by the way, once you get out of the cities AL is mostly white. ~68.5% White for the state as a whole. Course there is a lot of white trash.
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table
Next month the AL number will be revised but not one will care.
The data released today is through May of 2011. The surge in numbers could partly be a result of the massive tornado damage in Alabama.
yeah, that could be. Good point. The gov't was walking around just handing out money to anyone and everyone for a week there. And now they'll pay up to 4k of the costs of installing a tornado shelter in your house. No income cut-off either.
Its not surprising...There are a ton of Unemployed 99ers that are rolling off that didnt qualify for food stamps while collecting unemployment, that now do...I know..Im one of them!!!
"I just dont understand why anyone would pay for food" said the black man in front of me in the checkout line with a cart full of groceries, wearing new shoes, sporting a new coat and loading up a 2008 Buick Rendezvous in the parking lot; while i can only afford a hand basket of groceries and have to walk back to my overpriced, halfassed, apartment in the middle of the winter in order to catch some sleep for my 10 hr workday and 3 hr graduate class.
True Story
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Print friendly version E-mail this poem to e friend Send this poem as eCard Add this poem to MyPoemList And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
and/or this:
Dignity
By Bob Dylan
Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel
Thin man lookin' at his last meal
Hollow man lookin' in a cottonfield
For dignity
Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass
Young man lookin' in the shadows that pass
Poor man lookin' through painted glass
For dignity
Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve
Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
I went into the city, went into the town
Went into the land of the midnight sun
Searchin' high, searchin' low
Searchin' everywhere I know
Askin' the cops wherever I go
Have you seen dignity?
Blind man breakin' out of a trance
Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance
Hopin' to find one circumstance
Of dignity
I went to the wedding of Mary-lou
She said I don't want nobody see me talkin' to you
Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew
About dignity
I went down where the vultures feed
I would've got deeper, but there wasn't any need
Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men
Wasn't any difference to me
Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade
House on fire, debts unpaid
Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
Have you seen dignity?
Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears
In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors
Lookin' into the lost forgotten years
For dignity
Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used
He wanted money up front, said he was abused
By dignity
Footprints runnin' cross the sliver sand
Steps goin' down into tattoo land
I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
In the bordertowns of despair
Got no place to fade, got no coat
I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat
Tryin' to read a note somebody wrote
About dignity
Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure
Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were
And into every masterpiece of literature
for dignity
Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
Combin' his hair back, his future looks thin
Bites the bullet and he looks within
For dignity
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed
Dignity never been photographed
I went into the red, went into the black
Into the valley of dry bone dreams
So many roads, so much at stake
So many dead ends, I'm at the edge of the lake
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take
To find dignity
Or this from Temple of the Dog:
"I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence
But I can't feed on the powerless when my cup's already overfilled.
Well it's on the table and the fire's cookin'.
And they're farmin' babies while the slaves are working.
Blood is on table the mouths are chokin'.
And I'm going hungry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W8Jp7aCMtg&feature=player_detailpage
one of my favorite dylan songs...but, inasmuch as I've accumulated 427 dylan favs, i can't say it's matchless
best quote of all time (not counting The Bible, J Milton, E Gibbon, L Tolstoy or TS Eliot):
"he not busy being born is busy dying!"
janus is a' busy gettin born anew, even when he's got nothin better to do...every goddam day!
Caerus,
do you really understand what you've pasted, or are you just fucking with me?
I tried to tell D Thomas not to go through with this...tried to assure him that there's nothing new under the sun, but he would have none of it. he thought Saul of Tarsus a poetaster and a punk; thought that "oh grave where is thy victory; oh death where is thy sting" thingy a platitudinous pile of steaming sophestry. i think paul nailed it just fine; but i don't begrudge D thomas a thing -- he answered a lot of questions no one knew to ask.
but, regarding propriety, i think we would have been better served with "The refusal to mourn the death by fire of a girl in london"...but what do I know, i tend to side with ezra pound.
reporting from deep within the round Zion of The Water Bead and the synagogue of the Ear of Corn,
Janus
Nancy Pelosi: Foodstamps and Unemployment Insurance
Pelosi's Solution to Creating Jobs
Two potential causes for this that I can think of off the top of my head (As someone who slings SNAP...)
Either there was a change in the reporting criteria for Public Assistance Food Stamps cases (Cases with TANF and Food Stamps), to finally show them in the State's Food Stamps usage,
OR
As someone stated below, the natural disaster in Alabama allowed a LOT of people to apply for and receive Disaster Food Stamps (The easiest joke of government assistance to get, but of a limited duration). If it is Disaster Food Stamps, then people who were on Food Stamps may have had them replaced via Disaster Food Stamps and would be counted twice (Once for each program). That means this bump will be transitory (Seriously) and will only last for about 2 months total.
Ha!
Just wait until they get their bene's cut off.
The mass of people will all be as mad as this Professor guy who is enraged about the situation his country is in. Check it out and pass it on:
Party 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlf4gOvzxYc
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlEOmcALwQ
So I guess they ran out of peas to eat.
anyone like duane? Duane
Default my ass: 1.762MM suddenly cut from SNAP in Alabama alone is enough to forget everything ever learned (hereto to and henceforth) about fiscal soundness if your a politician.
One chart's all ya need.
Debt ceiling be damned: that is a lot of people suddenly looking for someone to blame in one small/hot place.
In Arkansas, we always had a saying, "thank god for mississippi"... I guess we can soon substitute mississippi with alabama.
The chart looks like AAPL.
aapl sucks my shit...short it and then brag to your friends...seriously though...they dont deserve the pe (typed on an apple)
Careful: read your user agreement!
fukin law-yers!
We're all ready for you now..
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/382781/business-casual-g-men
Just another state in which the wealthy can look down their nose at all the little people and poo-poo about if only they were motivated...they could take their 5th grade equivalent H.S. education out and make something of themselves.
On the positive side - they probably have God and guns on their side should they change their minds about the status quo. There are some well armed little people out there.
O not to worry, our army has been training on a much better armed and far more militant group, then a bunch of disgruntaled, but lazy fat bodies like most of America is.
Spam me
ok
Sad....we are headed right for the jaws of The Greatest Depression....
Forget Food Stamps, government subsidized Prozac is in order.
And now you can even phone it in.
http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/capitol/free_cell_phones_are_civil_right_h...
maybe if they subsidized nitrous oxide instead.
you got to come up with a snappy acronym...snap's taken but im sure you can do better..good luck!
In one set of articles you say "both parties are patsies for the banks; there's no difference between them, then why do you state "Obama" anything? SNAP is good for JP Morgan Chase and Jamie Dimon, so where are their names?Is JP Morgan safe because Alabamians cannot blockade JP Morgan's entrance?
Have a Republican (Richard Shelby) stratify SNAP. How many are 99ers? how many have more than a high school degree? how many lost jobs to offshoring?
Finally, does anybody want to start a business in Alabama? Strings I would attach: corporations get three months to create 250,000 jobs in the US, or the Republican tax cuts expire to Clinton levels. In another 2 months, double down and 500,000 jobs get created in the US, or use of the FAA, the FCC, and the interstates all get mighty restricted. That wouldn't hurt anyone on food stamps.
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Thoughts...
1. They all take money for selling out America, but Obama really loves his job.
2. Offshoring jobs was a hard decision to make, but somebody had to declare moratoriums on oil drilling, fishing, and turning off the water in CA.
3. Apparently nobody wants to start any jobs in AL, but in Mexico, with their Utopian homicidal drug cartels, they have managed to eek out a 4.9% unemployment rate without raising their debt ceiling or cutting off illegal immigration in either direction.
4. I suspect we will see beatings and more groping of genitalia by the TSA, but no need, as of now by the current regime, to resort to cutting off interstate travel to make happiness compulsory.
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Meanwhile, back at the quiet bank run going on in Greece..... (from Drudge link Aug 2nd)
Greece's Clueless government
"Every time the markets move, I get phone calls," says an Athens-based fund manager. "They're from investors asking: 'How can I get my money out of the country?' "
One senior investment banker is more blunt: "People are scared that the government doesn't know what the fuck it's doing." He tells a story about an acquaintance who took out €30,000, wrapped it in a bag and stashed it in his garage. "The bag had previously had some food inside," he says. "So it attracted rats, who ate the notes."
So in Greece, the rats are eating Euros. At least they're still good for something, for now.
At the risk of interrupting with something serious, a spike like that would make me suspect some major fraud - by a criminal organization gaming the system in a big way.
Read some of the other posts, the Criminal Organization you speak of was identified by the National Weather Service. There were 62 of them, and their rank in the org varied from EF0-EF5.
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I think that's it, they did get hit pretty bad. It is partly the weather, for real this time. Roll Tide!
Poooor, black "Ali Bama" residents can now afford to buy their watermelons ! Sales of spring loaded shot guns poised for fall ! Can you buy flavored condoms with food stamps ? Monedas 2011 Big Tent Theory For My Cyclon B Circus !
I do not know for sure...but there is no denying that your post certainly sounds like it was written by an ignorant, racist redneck scumbag.
Perhaps your id was hijacked.
Or...perhaps not.
i live in that part of alabama with my 12 children. the storm took everything and even blew away some of my baby-daddies so i need food stamps. it isnt like the fathers ever come to town ...even when congress is out.
thinner bitchez...
A good example of using statistics to skew a story. Thousands of people were left homeless immediately after the April tornado, see link below:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/05/alabama-tornado-disaster-_n_858130.html
And what is the statistical skewing that makes North Dakota, the one state with a state bank, the only state in this chart in which the food stamp applications went down?
Coincidence?
Or is there something to be said for state banking?
It's called an oil boom:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daniel-gross/north-dakota-spurred-energy-ag-boom-3-2-122815061.html
Quick answer: those figures are what happens when China, I mean Wal-mart, ceases to subsidise your poor.
We were without power for a week, and threw out a refrigerator full of food. My neighbors and I survived by sharing food, charcoal, batteries, candles, bottled water, lighter fuel, whatever we had and whatever we could get for ourselves and each other from emergency Red Cross areas throughout the city. Even the Wal-mart was closed for days, so we couldn't even shop there. In addition, we lost the pharmacy, grocery stores, gas stations, convenience stores, fast food places. Our streets were blocked for days by National Guardsmen and roadblocks.1
http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-commentary/2011/05/your_view_in_wake_...
Decent blog that has been covering the disaster - multiple pictures spread all over it, page chosen to mirror racist stances above: Black families grieve, white kid sells cookies in celebration.
http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/05/alabama_tornado_aftermath_in_p.html
But really, this blog has about 100 pages on the disaster - knock yourself out
http://topics.al.com/tag/April%252027%25202011%2520storms/index.html
Historic data:
Food stamp rolls in Alabama grow by 65,000Tuesday, January 06, 2009
MONTGOMERY - Nearly one out of seven people in Alabama are receiving food stamp assistance, an increase of 65,000 people in the past year.
The rolls for the Food Assistance Program - the new name for the state's food stamp program - swelled from 559,364 in November 2007 to 624,670 at the end of November, according to state records.
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/statebriefs.ssf?/base/news/1231233...
And yes, before SNAP was FAP. And if 1/7 people were Fapping in 2009, then I'm guessing those Snapping would be larger.
Commentary: the USA is bizarre. Disaster relief as economic stimulus. Reality check though - Alabama was fucked economically before the disaster.
All I'm saying is that statistics can lead to the wrong assumption. The jump in Alabama food stamps was due to the tornado.
It's the same as saying champagne sales jumped in New York in December after Obama got elected and not recognizing the reason was New Years Eve and Christmas.
Well thank god almighty that the debt ceiling was raised! Now Alabama has enough funds to fund exponentially increased foodstamp usage, right? Right? WRONG!
...And the dough goes once again to the banksters who will in their Bentley's whiz by the average bum American carrying back gov issued glow-in-the-dark chedder cheese bricks to their newly erected tent cities. Yipeeeeeee!
Job creation shall come only after armageddon hits in the form of city rebuilding.
They make money off the government issued cards. Have a look..
Ohio SNAP Outreach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjEOxdE3V0M
Last year, I had to choose this card or have money sent into a bank account. I went for the savings account. Look at the banking fees on upper right (see link below). My son is now 18 years of age. His money is all in arrears owed to him. Ex stole from two companies while in a management accounting role. She spent 1-1/2 on first offense, and another 5-1/2 years on second offense.
jfs.ohio.gov/ocs/pdf/OhioeQuickPayInstructions.pdf
Moral of my story.. your government loves to create entitlements, then skims from the top. Fortunately, my son is finally getting his money and is excited to see his bank account growing in size.
who needs food...when you got an ipad?
Craziest of all....these are the regions down south where introducing any social assistance programs is met with political furor.
To proud to have a pot to piss in.
dat be communism boy!
The Corporates love this mentality.
Buy IPAD bitchezz . Where is Bill Dudley. hang that Bitch
When are people going to understand you can't give things away for free? It creates dependance!! I and most everyone I know have no problem helping people but at some point its sink or swim.
This is off topic of eating possum, but JPM is below spot silver.. again... haha.
never off-topic that
Not so fast there tyler! The vast majority of these new food stamp users for May was part of a one time disaster relief benefit. My family actually collected over $600 from this one time benefit. Because the tornados knocked down some high voltage 500kw transmission lines, a major part of the states population was completely without power for three days. The gubbmint was nice enough to replace all the food that might have gone bad in those few days without refrigeration. I can safely assure you that this was a one time anomally (barring any other disasters, of course!) The numbers for june should be back in line with trend.
The growth in the use of food stamps has always been a sign that society is prospering and therefore has more abundance to share with the less fortunate. Great job Obama! Also, we have always been at war with Eurasia.
The Feds have no business feeding the populace, however they can feed Joe Biden to the lions that fuckn' good for nothing piece of shit.
http://www.history.com/videos/inaugural-address-ronald-reagan#inaugural-...
I live in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This is an outlier(bad data point) in the data. There is no fucking way things are this bad. If this data is accurate we are truly fucked.
The USA has been living the "Sink or Swim" philosophy for too long.
Problem being, you cant out swim a tsunami caused by corrupt corporations and politicians.
Eventually a the decision has to be made as to what kind of Nation you choose to build.
Make no mistake, Strong nations are built with tax dollars, education and healthcare being essential,
Without those two components the standard of living only declines, crimes escelates, social unrest will prevail,
this is the future.
Only a civil uprising will change policy, and break the chain of greed.
It goes far beyond politics left vs right.
Very few that have thier cake are willing to share....and thats not about to change anytime soon.
Eat your Snap peas !
Holy f'kin shit.
The new spiderman is Obama.
That shit is just wrong.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08/02/new-spider-man-swinging-into-comic-book-shops-following-death-of-peter-parker/
You know, I was in the strip district in Pittsburgh buying one bag of chicken thighs and arrived at the counter at the same time as a gentleman of color, with two loaded shopping carts full of meat; chicken wings, bacon, steaks, ribs - my mouth watered just thinking about it - all those delicious ribs!
I hoped our young saggily dressed friend would say, 'You go ahead with your one bag of chicken, fellow shopper.' but that didn't happen.
So there I sat in line at Wholey's and his final bill came to over 300 bucks. Then he had to go outside, ISYN. Soon he was back and paid for his bill with a combo of cash (unspooled from a big roll of 20s), debit card, and Food Stamp Card. After one method of payment was processed, he would ask, 'How much now?' and then move onto the next. I marveled at how this guy could tie up the entire line for 8-10 times what a normal strip district shopper would.
Really made me wonder why on Earth you would buy that much meat - was there a big party planned? Made me wonder, if you can drop 350 bucks on meat - how are you getting food stamps? If it was for a party, I didn't get an invite.