I'd like to see a chart showing the percentage, not quantity, of Americans receiving food stamps over this same time...
Quote from Tsing Tao:
Because you believe that population spiked as massively during the last three years?
Quote from badvestor:
The spike is from all the illegal mexicans getting on the govt dole
I d u n n o about the illegals impacting to the extent of a spike.
I DO know it was the straw (ONE BIG STRAW) that broke California's back.
Reminds me of when I was in Spain 3 1/2 years ago and the financial cable channels had not heard of Spain's plight. There was no one who had coined the PIIGS countries yet. I was flabbergasted to come to understand when there it had reached 17% unofficial unemployment. (Much higher now.) The U.S. was pushing 7% at the time. The recently, well educated Spanish college grads were not getting jobs. All youth unemployment was about to become 40% (now 50%). The country did not have enough laborers during the earlier go-go years three or four years earlier to build their real estate boom. It gave work visa's to laborers from Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and other Caribbean countries. When the bust came, Socialist President Zapatera refused to send them back home to those "poor countries." Good intentions. Bad economics. It became the straw that broke Spain's back.
When many of this nation's states decided to offer safe harbor (no deportation, medical and education support) we became a big Spain. Many states don't have the wherewithal to pay its current or future pension liabilities or a lot of other things they are supposed to do. The acronym gets longer: US PIIGS.....us pigs.
A lesson in irony: The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves. This ends today's lesson.
that sounds totally like the gov is setting up dependence to steal rights away..
I think you hit the target, dude. That's what I've been telling people lately. People all around me talking about what the government should do for them come election time. What they fail to realize is that this government assistance comes at a price...the price being personal freedom. The more they do for you, the less rights you have. People bitch about the government snatching their rights away, but these are the same ones that are overly dependent on government.
A lesson in irony: The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves. This ends today's lesson.
