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iFoodstamps
Think Apple is the only thing allowed to hit new records every month? Think again: presenting iFoodstamps - the number of Americans living in poverty (or at least doing a damn good job of fooling the government in pretending they do). As of December, per SNAP this number just hit another record high of 46.5 million, an increase of 384,000 in one month (and ending the trend of declines from October and November), 2.4 million in 2011 (about as many as have dropped out of the Labor force, hmmmm), and 14.3 million since Obama took office.
But it's not all good news for iCommunism: as of December the benefit per household has dropped to a series low of just $280.5. One can only hope this money is being spent on edible iPads and not on silly things such as iPot.
Finally, for the supreme definition of irony:
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This is bullish for stocks?
Yes, for JPM because they're a big player in the foodstamp business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgokq_nCmow
Oh, SNAP!
On a positive note, at least they're not on Soylent Greenstamps.
Are you sure? Monsanto is everywhere.
Monsanto's Bt GMO corn to be sold at Wal-Mart with no indication it is genetically modified
True patriots bypass purchasing their own food so they can buy Yelp stock on credit.
I see a different oddity: Why is the rise so steady?
Because taking one's gov benes is patriotic!
My take, if we cannot starve the beast (no taxes) we climb on its back and enjoy the ride. The more that jump on, the faster it dies from strain.
I am starting to rethink the whole Cloward-Piven stratagey. Everyday I am becoming more convinced that the only way to change it is to collapse it.
The collapse is inevitable. Once that premise is accepted, all that's left to do is prepare, then ride this motherfucker til the wheels fall off, two guns up.
http://pastebin.com/iTx8RA2P
Also available as pdf thanks(!) to member WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot - http://maydaycalltoaction.wordpress.com/
Oh C'mon, surely at some point it costs more in printing real ink than these things are worth. Can't they just make it 'universal', so everyone can have them? Just think what it will do for GDP...
***How do you starve a 'hope and change' Obama supporter..............
you hide their foodstamps under their workboots.***
wherever there's permanent pollution you'll find Monsanto's fingerprints
Exception: sterilized [?] hybrid corn ___ a genius pure play on marketing [ one-time throwaway/ non-recyclable] seed crops] http://www.gardenguides.com/3019-hybrid-delemma.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
The welfare state continues to grow.
http://www.allthingsluxury.biz/
I see green shoots.
You mean fried chicken.
soylent green
Yelp me ihungry
This should remove your appetite.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9113394/Killing-babies-no-different-from-abortion-experts-say.html
nothing new. See this video if Virgnia Ironsides http://youtu.be/5RAAhTL4Arg
just...wow. "ethicists" said this shit?
The entire framing of the argument is absurd on its face. Depriving a person of their life doesn't represent a "loss" to them either because they will be DEAD and unable to copmrehend the loss. So long as you do it without telling them, the argument is equivalent.
Dehumanization is an important step in a much larger process.
if you want to discuss "dehumanization" then you might start at the "sex" of the babies being theoretically discussed:
and while you may not think it matters, I ask you to ponder why most arguments are framed in "he" - but this one isn't. and also take into consideration that most abortions in places like India or China are because families traditionally seek a "male" baby, the female being "unnecessary" rather like a luxury good.
Jesse Jackson....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4hSlkgnabM
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iQuit
...looking for a job
...paying my mortgage
...paying any bills for that matter
...college
...
iHungry
That shadow story the the bleeding hearts miss. The Welfare/Warfare state is merely welfare for the oligarchy.
It's all trickle-up
EBT Baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64Fz-KW1Dk
You mean JPM is benefiting because of its foodstamps derivatives business, not actual foodstamps.
I suspect the falling per-household figure is due to a rise in the number of single- and two-person households that qualify.
If you're single and don't have a dependant child, qualifying for SNAP is pretty tough -- even your minimum-wage, 20-hour-per-week, U-16 level job likely puts you out of reach of a food stamp. You're just too rich!
But as more and more singles and working single parents spend through their savings and slip down the ladder, they land on the SNAP safety net. Those smaller absolute payments bring down the average per-household figure.
your second paragraph just prequalified almost all black women
OBAMAECONOMICS
How about - OBAMANOMICS.
It rolls off the tongue much better.
Obamanation rolls off even smoother. Pronounced like Abomination (no relation hehe) but with an Oh as the first syllable.
I down arrowed both comments about Obamanomics and Obamaeconomics because I think food stamp usage would be about the same now with McCain.
this is the future in this area. Great job! ways to lose weight fast
Nah, cmon, just good old socialism, nothing else. Comrads Americans. You make tovarish Lenin proud
As Pelosi or the Obama administration will tell you, government welfare expenditures actually stimulate the economy and "create" more money. True story - they wouldn't lie, would they?
Paul Krugman would concur. Government spending = GDP = Feed Everyone. This is a war on hunger you know hunger is apparently losing.
iCapitulate...coming soon to an exchange near you!
State subsidised poverty and State subsidised food ..luvvin it
This is bullish food inflation and bearish problem solving
Govt perfects the art of society and economics going pear-shaped
Welcome to the global village, Shitville, an unsustainable unproductive community built by Govts everywhere
these systems work better where there are no significant minority populations, and by that I mean brown people...but in the end, any system predicated upon perpetual growth is doomed.
you've got your arse about tit, or head up your arse, as usual Trav
the "minority community" you talk of is the Govt (and its behind the scenes parasites). It is Govt that ruins society and ruins economies (a right bunch of suckers)
the "perpetual growth" you talk of is productivity, which is in effect mans knowledge, which is technically infinite.. which means growth is infinately possible (unless your brain seizes up in Kindergarten like most lefties!)
Black, yellow, red and white is a skin colour mate, not a measure of IQ or sociability (Hitler, Mao and Ide Ahmin are mixed race maniacs ...and there's the current US President who is a mixed race Marxist of course)
the only assured "doom" you'll realise is however that mentaility effects your lifespan.. try to think positive Trav, or just get that "End of the World" sign and tramp down the High Street and fulfill your destiny
Hitler and Mao were mixed race? Mind telling us which races?
Unless you consider Jews to be a separate race, Hitler was not mixed race. The Ashkenazi Jews are definitely white. You can consider then an ethnic group if you want.
What race was Mao mixed with? How about Idi Amin?
Hitler, Mao and Idi Amin are mixed race as a collective, not individually, but were all fuking maniacs (ie. the colour of your skin matters not one jot to human characteristics we all share as a species)
the US President is mixed race, so presumably Trav thinks his white (good) genes are fighting (and losing) with his black (naughty) genes which is why this Trotsky tosser is sending the US down the tubes even faster than that white fascist, Bush, who presumably Trav thinks is a white angel
ZeroGovt: "Hitler, Mao and Idi Amin are mixed race as a collective, not individually" - has to be the DUBMEST thing I have ever heard on zerohedge. I will keep this message to entertain my friends for ages. Thanks.
"Fuking maniacs" - you mean they were sex addicts?
@Zero Govt: Instead of Shitville, how about Mortsville? That's from an old John Waters movie called Desperate Living. When the King & Queen declared Backwards Day, all of the people had to put their clothes on backwards and walk backwards.
Taffy, sounds like a film about Brussels!
Is the ECB now accepting these as collateral?
the ECB accepts any old shit ..this is a 'Cash for Crap' of 'Prop-Up the Pinheads' scheme/scam for inept bwankers
..they'll do anything to show Jean-Clause Trichets two Stress Tests weren't a total fuking sham!!
No, it's iBullish.
I am waiting for iFoodstamp 2,
much thinner
iFoodstamp HD = twice the resolution and a better camera for a better frankenfood experience
iFood Blue Ray...even tastier.
Does iTunes accept EBT?
It's FREE...EBT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII
You can't eat iFoodstamps. Oh, wait...
soon people will trade them for food and cigarettes.
Soon?
iPads!
People give up on their mortgages to buy iPads. In the future, they will starve playing Angry Birds.
or, emulate the Angry Birds against the "pigs" in Congress.
Only after their ifoodstamps run out.
Why should they pay their mortgages? You can't even sell at a loss without being tracked for shorting scam.
It is the newest thing, after all parties envolved allowed the realtors to value up the price of these houses for extra revenue, we have a new FBI project of prosecuting real estate agents and appraisers (floppers) who gain from short selling homes.
The banks are going to get the full value or you will be removed from society till you get it.
There is no way around it. They will become slumlords if necessary, but they will get their money.
Poverty, bitchez!
This may sound really harsh, but I think on of our biggest mistakes is trying to take the pain out of poverty. By its nature, poverty should be unpleasant enough to motivate people to want to do better. The problem is that we've made it so easy and comfortable to be poor, that being a slacker has gone mainstream. And, of course, the politicians luv this because more dependency = more votes. And it doesn't cost them nothing. They using the Taxpayers credit card to get re-elected.
Methinks that, ultimately, the only solution is separating the population into two parts: taxpayers and clients. If you are a taxpayer, you get to vote. If you are a client, then just STFU.
thats why i dont like Ron Paul..
instead of blubbering in front of cameras about Gold standard/etc he should have jsut presented this chart to Mr Bernanke and ask the simple question
WHERE IS THE FUCKING RECOVERY?
ALX
Americans are indifferent to the poor, something about bootstraps etc etc, don't know, ask Gingrich.
This doesn't get much play.
by poor, do you mean leeches? The lower parastic class, as compared to the upper parasitic classes of academia and political circles.
I'm poor because I've been working and consecutively bled fucking white so they can live in halcyon days of luxury and ease.
Indifferent hell yeah! I don't care if they fucking starve or if they burn. Same same to me.
Ah, the US citizen myth of the middle class. Everything stems from the middle class.
Alas, history shows that of the 'parasits', the middle class, that US citizen fabrication, is the biggest.
China-bot, you're failing the Turing Test
That's marvelous. I appreciate, not only your perspective, but your clumsy validation of my point.
See here it gets tricky, morally speaking. Here's you:
'The lower parastic class, as compared to the upper parasitic classes of academia and political circles.'
Now, since there is nothing I can do about having Shiti Bank being bailed out I can at least redirect my discontent and general hate at the homeless. This is your world, pal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5zky5fE_uE&feature=results_video&playnex...
The poor here have nice section 8 housing, eat better than I do, have cell phones, cable TV, internet and sit on their ass all day. I'm out working 50 hours a week and am worse off. Americans are indifferent to the plight of the middle class. When they stand in soup lines I might feel sorry for them.
Most of the homeless aren't homeless because they're poor. They are mostly addicts and mentally ill. What does Shitibank have to do with allowing parasites to destroy the country?
'What does Shitibank have to do with allowing parasites to destroy the country?'
Absolutely everything. Entirely. You should look into it when you're not contributing to meaningless unrewarded activity that you call 'work', it might help.
Perhaps, if what you say is true, you should look into some more profound philosophical questions about the society you live in. Just a thought.
Your work is so meaningful. I'm sure you're making the world a better place with your meaningful work.
Perhaps you should stop spewing your bullshit and worthless thoughts. Your philosophy is crap
You've never been poor, have you?
If you really think they've got it better than you, why do you continue to sweat and toil? Join them and enjoy the paradise that is state-sponsored poverty.
Don't you remember the premise of Atlas Shrugged?
Maybe the welfare-recipients are just wayyyy smarter than you are, and you deserve to be their slave. Heh.
Perhaps I'm not a parasite and don't want to be one. Perhaps I have goals in life unlike you parasites. Some people and organizations are perfectly happy existing as parasites. I'm not.
No, that can't be it. You're JEALOUS of them, but you're unwilling to take the steps to enjoy their lifestyle. Lots of people may not be able to compete with a great success such as yourself--perhaps a paraplegic can't do your job, but then again, he doesn't come here and post whining about how much you're getting paid.
You're either being dishonest by crying about how great the poor have got it, or you're lying to yourself about how motivated you are not to be a parasite.
As for me, I have a job and don't receive any benefits. The only thing different between us on that score is I don't begrudge the poor their poverty.
I used to have my own, and it sucks very badly.
I'm not jealous of you parasites at all. I simply don't feel sorry for you worthless worms. I guess that makes me cold-hearted
I call bullshit. I saw what you wrote a few hours ago.
The poor here have nice section 8 housing, eat better than I do, have cell phones, cable TV, internet and sit on their ass all day. I'm out working 50 hours a week and am worse off.
What makes you think I'm a "parasite"? Or is that what you say to everyone who points out you're just a bitter bastard? :)
I'm not indifferent to the parasitic poor--I'm hostile to them.
Rome had bread and circuses. The modern US welfare state has SSDI, high fructose corn syrup, Eat Better Today (EBT) cards, Netflix streaming and Farmville. Stand in line at Walmart sometime and see the human driftwood flashing their EBT cards and spewing venom at the poor cashiers. It makes my blood boil. Hard to believe that these dysfunctional, bloated buffoons grew up on the same planet I did, let alone the same country. Tragically, its not the same country anymore and is getting worse every day.
We can still heal ourselves, but we need to drop the one-man/one vote BS. Only taxpayers (or military vets) should be allowed to vote. If that happened, our problems would disappear rather quickly.
Only taxpayers (or military vets) should be allowed to vote. If that happened, our problems would disappear rather quickly.
Unicorns are more likely to save us.
If you really think all problems can be fixed with something as simple as a change to the voting rolls, you're a MORON.
Actually, it would not be a simple change at all. It would constitute a political earthquake--which is why it will probably never happen unless the most extreme circumstances unfold.
This country is very dynamic and robust. We can heal ourselves if our politicians start making the right decisions. The problem is that the pols long ago figured out that its easier to buy votes than to make smart, long term decisions. Why? Because, at the end of the day, the majority of the American people want free stuff as long as someone else pays for it. If the ones paying the bills are in charge, then the stupidity will stop in short order.
If you disagree, maybe you can elaborate on your solution instead of name calling? And just saying "End the Fed" is pretty simplistic too.
Campaign finance reform, end transfer payments, and eliminate the practice of legal "precedent" to replace it with a system more similar to common law.
And you didn't read carefully: I didn't say your solution was easy--I said it was SIMPLE.
Our problems are not simple. Solutions will not be simple.
Can't oblige on the name-calling bit. I'd still say you're a moron.
Ron Paul was telling Bernanke that every American should be getting a 4-5 fold return on their money in a span of less than 6 years--you can't make this stuff up.
link please or else you are making it up
During the dog and pony show the other day, RP made reference to the shadow stats inflation number of around 8% compared to the BLS number of 3%. He split the difference and said that if inflation was running at 4% the people should be getting 4% return on there savings instead of the .0x% we are getting today. The Burnanks reply did not stick in my brain, it was something like bla, bla, bla no inflation bla or something.
That's a far cry from the claims the socialist stooge made. Returns of 4-5x of what they are currently getting (4% vs 1%) is not the same as a 4-5x return on their savings (400%). It looks like the socialist stooge is making that stuff up.
We need H Ross Perot and his charts again...really tired of the talk and wish the candidates would start throwing real numbers in front of people..
iCanHasCheezburger
i see you've been posting for about a week, so hy-ayk!
it's only about $3.23 BIL/week for the burger, and we'll be repaid nextTuesday, of course
paper + digits = beef
banksters lose trillions gambling and just get more free chips! what a country!
everything is free unless you choose to work, comrade BiCheZ!
Are comrade bitchez chicks in uniform?
not if they're working, comrade len_hen!
apparently only suckers work. and re-pay their debt.
it's good to be here slewie.
"as of December the benefit per household has dropped to a series low of just $280.50"
Not just sluts with 10 babies getting $400/mo anymore. Even single white males can get approved for $200/mo now. It's a token bailout for the slaves. Everyone should apply.
http://pastebin.com/iTx8RA2P
Sure, why not? Bleed the beast to death by a thousand cuts.
Exactly. It's what they want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
Well, no. I'm not supporting that strategy. Once the beast is dead, I want it dismembered and buried once and for all. There will be no replacement. All corporate and individual welfare needs to end. A full economic collapse will make it happen too. We are broke anyway, so the Cloward-Piven strategy has no chance of success anyway, right?
Probably not. But the Cliff Claven strategy is just getting warmed up
I've been thinking lately, what need is there for a Cloward-Piven stategy? Liberals from back in the 60's didn't really think that voting for medicare, medicaide, and welfare would actually help the private banking cartel running the government pacify any resistance to their power did they? The current political structure is so stable that it doesn't need to collapse. The TBTF banks and their heads already control the economy, the media, and the government so there is no need for it to collapse. It doesn't matter how we vote, the result will be another big government wanker that will take more of our freedom and stick us with an even bigger unpayable bill. Why would the TPTB want or allow this system to collapse? I don't believe in Cloward-Piven anymore. We have already been subverted.
Depletion of resources is indeed US citizen strategy.
You are blobbing again? Where is akak to take you to task.
Exploitation of resources is a capitalist strategy. Depletion of humans is a communist strategy.
Those who advocate Cloward-Piven or similar bullshit need to wake up and learn from history: this is precisely how a well-functioning Republic turns into Oligarchy, and then into Tyranny.
Case in point: the Roman Republic. It was a strong state (VII-circa III century BC) as long as the average voter was a small to medium sized farmer and the lower class ( urban plebeii, i.e. the free poor living in cities ) had little say so. That is because the small time farmer was an independent mind that made his own, rational decisions. The road to Oligarchy begun with the decline in family farms being replaced by slave plantations owned by the upper class, who then proceeded to form their clientele out of urban plebeii ( mostly by means of food rationing ). Suddenly the political system was overrun by Oligarchs with swarms of their clients voting as the Oligarch wanted. What followed was the Empire, i.e. Tyranny.
That's what is happening in the US: TPTB are forming their clientele out of the food stamp folks. Those folks are never going to vote rationally. They are going to vote for whoever promises to hand out the most, and soon the Republic, the Democracy and even the very middle class is gone. Then only the Vandals can cleanse this mess with sword and fire.
There is a reason why the Founding Fathers made this country a Republic, and not Democracy: they followed the Roman Republic, rather then the Greek Democracies of ancient world. And for the first 200 years, it was a success. Sadly, it's still following the Roman path and the time is now Ist century BC.
Cloward-Piven was designed not to foster in a utopian socialist state, but a socialist tyranny with Cloward, Piven, and other "intellectuals" as the wealthy, privileged class. Billy Ayers drives a Mercedes.
iCoporatism? iFascism?
Aw, SNAP! How much media attention will this get?
Whoever is behind the "People of Walmart" website should make one featuring carts full of "Shit People Buy with SNAP".
Here's a video version of the idea - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII
That's a short list.
Walgreens is leading the way though with huge "FOOD STAMPS ACCEPTED HERE" banners out in front for all to see.
As the saying goes though, if you can't beat'em, join'em.
Since the people of walmart are all fat land-whales, I took EBT being spent on junk food as a given.
Incidentally, Charles Murray (co-author of the Bell Curve) just released a new book about the trends in (white) behaviors that correspond nicely to the latest credit cycle, though he doesn't make that connection.
It all really just seems like there's been nothing but a steady rise moral hazard and laziness across the globe with many different symptoms (including debt crisis, fatassed welfare mammies, sleezy politicians etc.)
Unfortunately the cheapest calories are starchy sugary foods so the poor load up on them. Add some crap vegetable fats to the mix and you have the perfect insulin resistant cock-tale that packs pounds of fat on humans. A starch based diet is not natural for humans and produces multiple bad side effects such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and a number of auto immune diseases. Slow poison, hits most in there late 40s and without modern medicine it would be fatal in there 50s.
People who don't understand medical demography complain about this stuff.
Look on the bright side: anyone who dies before 65 saves about $2 million in Medicare expenses.
Let's have a hand for Breitbart for giving something back to us all.
Wow what world do you live in...... thats a Myth of the media........ Starchy and sugary equal expensive.........
Hows oatmeal for breakfast, PB&J for lunch, and something with a can of beans or tuna for dinner or burger and helper for dinner....... I grew up with it.....
Dorritoes, ice cream, oreos, Mickey ds etc..... are not cheap
what people don't want to acknowledge is the food we "grew up on" is not the same fudtm being sold in supermarkets now.
your suggested menu is, on the surface, a good one - but when you take into consideration most packaged fuds have some version of "corn" or "soy" derivatives to pad out the "nutrients" - and that BOTH these fuds are over 90% GMO in amrkn corporate fudstuffs - then you begin to realise how insidious the corporate agenda is.
such a simple food as "peanut butter and jelly" sandwiches need label checking for the "sweetener" used in the jelly, and a growing percentage of people, mostly children, are allergic to anything peanut. . .
"tuna" is even on a gov't list to eat less than once a week because of the heavy metals, etc. pollutants in the oceans, and as tuna are higher up the food chain, they contain more mercury, etc. - not great to feed one's children, let alone self. there is also the Bisphenol-A lining cans, which contributes to xenoestrogens to the human body, distorting body chemistry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Studies_on_humans
"burger" is ALL GMO-corn fed feedlot fattened (unless you choose to pay significantly more for organic) with added anti-biotics, hormones, etc. in the cheaper versions - any wonder why "fast food" burgers are "fattening"? feed lot food for the human feed lot.
not picking on your post at all, merely pointing out - the food we grew up on has been diluted, just like the currency. . . and our collective health.
Did you miss the 10,000 stories about the bailouts and crony capitalism the past 2 years.
The point of this article is to show there is a problem with the economy. Why are there record numbers of people on foodstamps if the economy is booming as they claim? Maybe it flew over your head
Don't forget JP Morgan profits off issuing food stamps.
http://rt.com/usa/news/jpmorgan-profiting-hungry-americans-usa/
Economic Recovery!!!
Just waiting for the Chinese restaurants in my neighborhood to figure out how to accept SNAP. Bonanza!
Greasy fast food restaurants already accept SNAP. Here's a list according to ABC:
free buss tickets bitchez!!
that's how the statists take over. make you dependent on them for food and health care. pretty soon you'll be like a chinese sleeping in a hovel at your job for $1 a day
Unless you're lucky enough to be assembling iPADS at Foxconn. Then you get $17.00 a day and a biscuit
with your gruel.
How about a chart overlaying the S&P on food stamps numbers, just for laughs?
Food stamp program is subsidizing peace. imagine if 46 million people kicked off the food stamp program!?
Instant Project Mayhem.
Yeah I can imagine, but I try not to.
How are so many fat? I am thinking starvation is a long way off. Starving for a cheeseburger maybe.
Because all everyone eats is carbs and loads of sugar. Meanwhile, they've been taught to avoid healthy animal fats.
http://blog.massivehealth.com/infographics/Carbs_are_killing_you/
meat is murder
murdering plants is better
Paleo, BitCheZ!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo_diet
Mayhem good! Think of all the broken windows that would need fixing...holy recovery Krug-Man!
Egypt stands as a recent example of what happens when people can no longer afford food.
When people are forced to decide whether to use their last loaf of bread for a meal, or for a helmet, shit has gotten real.
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/bloguploads/viral-stars2011-1.jpeg
Those MENA dictators are quite a bunch of noobs. Just think, if only they had SNAP, they'd still be in power.
I'm getting hard thinking about it.
I would call that a good start.....
Bush still at fault here?
don't forget dick!
The fault of Dick & Bush, happy?........................ending.
There's an app for that.
There's alot of puns in there.
Well it's official that the indie "investor" is leaving the market in droves for bonds. The look on the MSM faces is priceless.
A true barometer of unemployment.
iPuke
How can I bet on this ? Is there an ETF or something ?
Symbol: JPM
Holy Crap the book is out, now I need to learn to read.
iDole
i would really like to get in on this......my food bill is just way too high each week.....anyone have a good manual how to jump thru the maze and loopholes for less than $2.99
food stamps v.
war, war toys, bribes, payoffs, no bid contracts.
take your choice?