Thursday, August 5, 2010

Food stamp use hit record 40.8 Million in May

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.
Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.
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4 comments:

  1. I need my food stamps. If I didn't get them I couldn't afford my cigarettes. Why should go hungry when there are so many people willing to pay taxes? If I didn't get it who will?

    Besides, my belly is so big if I didn't keep it packed tight and walk around with a 128 ounce soda to keep it topped off I might go into shock and die. Doctor Phool told me.

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  2. 9:40 keep poking fun, as I stated earlier, karma has a way of catching up to you. I'm sure 75% of people on food stamps don't want to be. The other 25% always have been the bottom of the barrel.

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  3. When I go to Wal-Mart and see the thunderous herds of buffalo going in and out I want to get out a whip and chase them into a pen, I don't know. Thing is then I'd have to feed them. I don't think they'd like hay. I'd have to try Doritos and Mountain Dew. Can you imagine what it would take to clean out the stalls. Buffalo Ranch calling Hercules, bring your fire hose.

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  4. In the 70's when we were at Ft Benning, Ga. everyone with two or more kids were on food stamps and then it was restricted on foods that weren't junk; also they had commodities which were bags of rice, corn meal,large blocks of cheese, dry milk, flour, dry beans, coffee, tea, sugar. Also people cooked and rarely ate out. Now they are allowed all kinds of crap/junk. With WIC it is restricted. These folks need to plant a garden even in town like people used to and learn how to cook from scratch, and of course quit breeding kids ya can't feed and have to live off the gov. Kids are a financial burden in the 21st century for most of us.

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