I would bet that 75% of those adults smoke an average of a pack of cigarettes each day. That's $300/mo for a 2 adult family.
So with about 300 million people in the U.S., about 1 in 11 people are on food stamps. That is quite a shitload. I see a very bleak future for many people in this country. Outsourcing of jobs is one thing that contributes to more poor folks in this country, as well as higher high school drop our rates. I think it will get even worse over the years as soaring costs for employee benefits, such as health insurance, will have even more jobs outsourced. The end result will be a small amount of wealthy people with a massive amount of people living in poverty.
The USA is the country of extremes ...worldwide the rich get richer and the poor poorer, the gap widens...
Food stamp and other welfare programs are not going away. Just look at the math. For every dollar give out in welfare, you need to pay out $5 for someone to do it.
Actually it's quite a bit more the $5 an hour. More like $14 plus an hour. Downtown Denver wants to take all of the homeless off the street. They want to use the Philly model. That's costs 100k per person!:eek: One can live a decent life in Denver for 50k ( depending on neighborhood ), so where's the other 50k, admin.
some welfare recipients have the latest mobiles and alot of bling too. in most countries, if you don't work, you don't eat.
The bottom 10% in any country is going to be unable to provide any sort of financial well being for themselves and their dependents. At least in this country the poor people have food, shelter, cable tv, transportation, etc. If they don't have those things, it's only due to drug abuse or mental illness.
What kind? the kind we have had for the last 8 years aka a conservative republican one aka a "let oil skyrocket 425%" one aka a "let capitalism rule", and regulations be damn aka a "we got ours" and ..... the rest of you(s) aka a cynical bunch of ..... aka well, just like the ones we have now!