Great depression era style lines forming.

Discussion in 'Economics' started by noob_trad3r, Sep 17, 2012.

  1. Come to MA they actually advertise on the radio during NFL games "if you are x y z you could be eligible for and EBT card....call this number..."

    I understand that the state gets a bonus if they meet sign up targets. Must be the only social welfare program where the issuer gets a bonus for signing up more no hopers and bludgers.
     
    #11     Sep 17, 2012
  2. that sounds totally like the gov is setting up dependence to steal rights away..
     
    #12     Sep 17, 2012
  3. chisel

    chisel

    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.
     
    #13     Sep 17, 2012
  4. I can't see that adding any more than marginal value. Unless you're suggesting something like millions of Mexicans have come over here to get foodstamps which I can't see being the case.
    The absolute numbers speak for themselves don't they?
     
    #14     Sep 17, 2012
  5. achilles28

    achilles28

    Brilliant.
     
    #15     Sep 18, 2012
  6. deucy28

    deucy28

    LOL LOL
     
    #16     Sep 18, 2012
  7. yeah... everywhere i go i see animals being treated better then people... this is just another case... treat people like they don't know how to take care of themselves and they won't know how..
     
    #17     Sep 18, 2012

  8. The spike is from all the illegal mexicans getting on the govt dole
     
    #18     Sep 18, 2012
  9. deucy28

    deucy28



    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.
     
    #19     Sep 19, 2012
  10. MKTrader

    MKTrader

    #20     Sep 19, 2012