The Left: $1 trillion in food stamps better than $1 trill spent on military; admission of failure

[bedowin62]

Money spent on the military doesnt just go for bombs and bullets; it goes for job training for military members, food for their families, healthcare for the soldiers and their families, recreational items...etc.

the Left wants unlimited food stamps because all they'd rather PANDER to 45 million or so people their OWN POLICIES have kept down, then take care of people in the military.

 

[waltky]

Something to think about on Thanksgiving...

Census Bureau: 21.6% of U.S. Children—15,931,000--on Food Stamps in 2014
November 23, 2015 | Of the approximately 73,623,000 children under the age of 18 in the United States in 2014, 15,931,000—or 21.6 percent—were in households that received food stamps, according to data released today by the Census Bureau.

The information comes from Table C8 in the Census Bureau’s Families and Living Arrangements data, which is derived from the Current Population Survey’s 2015 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) and which the Census Bureau says reflects 2014 numbers. (The ASEC survey asks respondents about the receipt of food stamps in the previous year.) The number and percentage of children in households on food stamps held relatively steady from 2013 to 2014, according to the Census surveys. In 2013, according to Table C8 from the 2014 ASEC, 16,000,000 (or 21.7 percent) of the approximately 73,692,000 children then in the United States were in households on food stamps.

When the Census Bureau released the Families and Living Arrangements data from the 2014 CPS ASEC on Jan. 28, 2015, it put out a press release headlined “One in Five Children Receive Food Stamps, Census Bureau Reports.” “The number of children receiving food stamps remains higher than it was before the start of the Great Recession in 2007,” the bureau said in that January release. Back in 2002, according to the Census Bureau, there were approximately 73,001,000 children in the United States and 8,453,000—or 11.6 percent—were on food stamps. In 2007, according to the 2008 ASEC, 9,870,000—or 13.3 percent--of the 74,104,000 children in the United States were on food stamps. In 2009, the year the last recession ended, 13,915,000—or 18.6 percent—of the 74,718,000 children in the United States were on food stamps.

In 2013, according to the data from the 2014 CPS ASEC, children in households on food stamps peaked at 16,000,000—or 21.7 percent—of the 73,692,000 children in the country. In 2014, the fourth year after the end of the last recession, there were still 15,931,000 children in households on food stamps--or 2,016,000 more than the 13,915,000 in 2009. In January, the Census Bureau released a chart showing that of the approximately 16 million children on food stamps as reported by 2014 CPS ASEC 8.1 million (8,115,000) were in households headed by a mother only. Another 0.9 million (894,000) were in households with no parent present.

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[Eaglewings]

If we kept the free school lunch programs for kids, and spent money on workers to actually follow up on people getting food stamps to see if food stamps are truly needed, we would save millions.

Food stamps have helped raise the children that the right uses against the democrats who were born instead of aborted.
But really the Right would rather starve these children and set off explosives instead.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

If we kept the free school lunch programs for kids, and spent money on workers to actually follow up on people getting food stamps to see if food stamps are truly needed, we would save millions.

Food stamps have helped raise the children that the right uses against the democrats who were born instead of aborted.
But really the Right would rather starve these children and set off explosives instead.

No we don't you fucking retard. We see that that having this large a number on public assistance is a sign of failure... not success.

 

[rightwinger]

I'd rather spend the money helping Americans than helping to nation build in far away countries

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

We shouldn't be spending $1 trillion on either one

 

[koshergrl]

The leftists do everything in their power to inflate the welfare rolls. This summer there was a little publicized snap program that enrolled families for summer foidstamps WITHOUT THEM EVER APPLYING. What it amounted to was the feds working with schools to enroll all kids who received or were eligible to receive reduced lunches, and their families, for snap benefits disengenuously titled School lunch program'....except it was snap, in the summer, when kids aren't in school, and for families who never have applied for snap. These families received ebt cards in the mail and issuances of snap benefits June through August. Look at that, a whole bunch more people "need" benefits. Cripes ppl are suckers.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I'd rather spend the money helping Americans than helping to nation build in far away countries

I'd rather Americans able to help themselves.

 

[Timmy]

Righties have no problem spending money overseas to build schools and roads . But spend that in the USA , then it's a problem.

Food stamp $$ gets recycled into our enconomy . Unlike a lot of this Military spending .

 

[Timmy]

I'd rather spend the money helping Americans than helping to nation build in far away countries

I'd rather Americans able to help themselves.

I'd rather other countries help Themsleves .

 

[rightwinger]

Conservatives can always find more money for wars or prisons

Ask them to spend money on feeding children, building schools or taking care of the sick and they get outraged

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I'd rather spend the money helping Americans than helping to nation build in far away countries

I'd rather Americans able to help themselves.

I'd rather other countries help Themsleves .

As well would I.... on this we agree.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Righties have no problem spending money overseas to build schools and roads . But spend that in the USA , then it's a problem.

Food stamp $$ gets recycled into our enconomy . Unlike a lot of this Military spending .

Oh yes.. our economy thrives on food stamps.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Conservatives can always find more money for wars or prisons

Ask them to spend money on feeding children, building schools or taking care of the sick and they get outraged

Perhaps you and your ilk should stop creating/maintaining so many needy.... that'd be a nice start.

 

[rightwinger]

Conservatives can always find more money for wars or prisons

Ask them to spend money on feeding children, building schools or taking care of the sick and they get outraged

Perhaps you and your ilk should stop creating/maintaining so many needy.... that'd be a nice start.

We should stop "maintaining" the needy?

What do you propose?
Let them die?

 

[Eaglewings]

No we don't you fucking retard. We see that that having this large a number on public assistance is a sign of failure... not success.

I work in the field that gets addicted pregnant women off the streets, they get an education and put on Gov. assistance.
People like Carson who grew up on public assistance tells us that the program keeps the people down.
Meaning cut it back, let them fend for themselves.

I like your solution, play like we are helping them help themselves, but really turn our backs. No solution at all , just a cop-out.....

I said that we need to hire workers to follow up on possible scammers, fine the scammers and would see a big reduction of Gov . assistance.
Also making school, and childcare affordable so they do get out and help themselves..


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[rightwinger]

Conservatives are willing to pay for 2.5 million Americans in prison. Five times what it was 30 years ago

But ask to pay to feed children and they go ballistic

 

[Siete]

Righties have no problem spending money overseas to build schools and roads . But spend that in the USA , then it's a problem.

Food stamp $$ gets recycled into our enconomy . Unlike a lot of this Military spending .

Oh yes.. our economy thrives on food stamps.

LINK !

here Soggy LIb, let me DO IT FOR YOU !!


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