Remember this?
1. "Food Stamps For Tattoos, Porn, Manicures, And Bail Money
2. There was a time when there were standards for getting food stamps (now EBT cards). The food stamp program was designed to help families with the necessities. You couldnt buy anything you want with food stamps.
3. A general rule of economics is, The more money you throw at a program, the more you get of it. Is it any wonder that obesity is Americas number-one health problem? Maybe Mayor Bloomberg should be looking at EBT cards as the problem for obesity and not Big-Gulp drinks.
4. Its now worse than this, at least in Massachusetts. If you are a tax payer in Massachusetts, you get to fund EBT cards for those who want to buy tattoos, manicures, body piercings or porn.
Food Stamps for Tattoos, Porn, Manicures, and Bail Money
And....the update:
5. "Late on Feb. 28, Rebecka came home to their two-bedroom apartment to make a snack for her daughters, ages 1 and 3.....Only a few jars of jelly, iced tea, rotten vegetables and some string cheese remained in between.
6. For the past three years, the Ortizes lives had unfolded in a series of exhausting, fractional decisions. Was it better to eat the string cheese now or to save it? To buy milk for $3.80 nearby or for $3.10 across town? Was it better to pay down the $600 they owed the landlord, or the $110 they owed for their cellphones, or the $75 they owed the tattoo parlor, or the $840 they owed the electric company?"
Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle - The Washington Post
If one reads the WaPo article....America appears to be in the midst of the Great Depression.
Two items jump out:
a. This family has "Only a few jars of jelly, iced tea, rotten vegetables and some string cheese remained in between" but..."... $110 they owed for their cellphones, or the $75 they owed the tattoo parlor,"
WHAT???
Two babies, hungry and you spend the money on cell phones and tattoos???
They get $518/ month.
b. "Three years into an economic recovery, this is the lasting scar of collapse: a federal program that began as a last resort for a few million hungry people has grown into an economic lifeline for entire towns. Spending on SNAP has doubled in the past four years and tripled in the past decade, surpassing $78 billion last year. A record 47 million Americans receive the benefit including 13,752 in Woonsocket, one-third of the towns population, where the first of each month now reveals twin shortcomings of the U.S. economy..."
Is this program working???
And, what is the purpose of the program??
Wouldn't simply opening 24-hour soup kitchens be more efficacious than simply feeding and growing the welfare industry octopus??
At least the kids would get fed!!!
What kind of insanity put this administration back in office??
1. "Food Stamps For Tattoos, Porn, Manicures, And Bail Money
2. There was a time when there were standards for getting food stamps (now EBT cards). The food stamp program was designed to help families with the necessities. You couldnt buy anything you want with food stamps.
3. A general rule of economics is, The more money you throw at a program, the more you get of it. Is it any wonder that obesity is Americas number-one health problem? Maybe Mayor Bloomberg should be looking at EBT cards as the problem for obesity and not Big-Gulp drinks.
4. Its now worse than this, at least in Massachusetts. If you are a tax payer in Massachusetts, you get to fund EBT cards for those who want to buy tattoos, manicures, body piercings or porn.
Food Stamps for Tattoos, Porn, Manicures, and Bail Money
And....the update:
5. "Late on Feb. 28, Rebecka came home to their two-bedroom apartment to make a snack for her daughters, ages 1 and 3.....Only a few jars of jelly, iced tea, rotten vegetables and some string cheese remained in between.
6. For the past three years, the Ortizes lives had unfolded in a series of exhausting, fractional decisions. Was it better to eat the string cheese now or to save it? To buy milk for $3.80 nearby or for $3.10 across town? Was it better to pay down the $600 they owed the landlord, or the $110 they owed for their cellphones, or the $75 they owed the tattoo parlor, or the $840 they owed the electric company?"
Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle - The Washington Post
If one reads the WaPo article....America appears to be in the midst of the Great Depression.
Two items jump out:
a. This family has "Only a few jars of jelly, iced tea, rotten vegetables and some string cheese remained in between" but..."... $110 they owed for their cellphones, or the $75 they owed the tattoo parlor,"
WHAT???
Two babies, hungry and you spend the money on cell phones and tattoos???
They get $518/ month.
b. "Three years into an economic recovery, this is the lasting scar of collapse: a federal program that began as a last resort for a few million hungry people has grown into an economic lifeline for entire towns. Spending on SNAP has doubled in the past four years and tripled in the past decade, surpassing $78 billion last year. A record 47 million Americans receive the benefit including 13,752 in Woonsocket, one-third of the towns population, where the first of each month now reveals twin shortcomings of the U.S. economy..."
Is this program working???
And, what is the purpose of the program??
Wouldn't simply opening 24-hour soup kitchens be more efficacious than simply feeding and growing the welfare industry octopus??
At least the kids would get fed!!!
What kind of insanity put this administration back in office??
True. Maybe thats why he handed out all those free cell phones...so they could call him to thank him. Thats what makes him smile.
