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YouTube Added: 22.12.2011

Tags: Economy, Food stamps, Global News, Government, Society, U.S.

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- Urgent: Food Stamps To Be Ended Unless Microchipped!

- US Food Stamp Use Reaches Record 45.8 Million

Nowhere is the chasm between America’s political class and its working poor more vast than in the demand to cut food stamps

US food stamps: Republican lawmakers want to cut the Department of Agriculture’s budget for food stamps by 20%

- Land of the free, home of the hungry (Guardian, Dec. 9, 2011):

On Monday afternoon this week, Rachelle Grimmer went into a Department of Health and Human Services in Texas with her two children, Timothy, aged 10, and Ramie, aged 12, and asked for a new case worker who could assist her application for food stamps. She had first applied in July but had been told she hadn’t provided enough information and, by most accounts, had been struggling to get by and get help since she moved from Ohio.

She was taken to a small room, where she pulled a gun, sparking a seven-hour standoff with police. Shortly before midnight, three shots were heard. Rachelle had shot both herself and her kids. Police rushed in to find the mother dead and Ramie and Timothy in critical condition. Earlier that morning, Ramie had posted a Facebook message, saying: “may die 2day”. She actually hung on until Wednesday. Timothy’s condition remains critical.

The tragic unravelling of this particular episode is hardly typical. But the desperation that underpins it is. For, in this period between Thanksgiving and Christmas (when many Americans are worrying about what overindulging will do to their waistline), a significant number is wracked with an entirely different concern: not having enough to eat.

This is no marginal group, no handful of unfortunates and ne’er-do-wells in a time of crisis. Indeed, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, food insecurity is a common, growing and enduring problem. According to Gallup polling, one in five Americans reported not having enough money to buy food in the past 12 months – the highest level since the month Barack Obama was elected. Around the country, food banks are feeling the pinch of market forces: as poverty climbs, demand is rising and supply is falling as people who would have donated have less left to spare.

An analysis by the New York Times revealed a 17% increase in the number of school students receiving free and reduced lunches across the country between 2006/07 and now. In Rockdale County, east of Atlanta, 63% of students now have subsidised food – up from 46% four years ago.

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Tags: Collapse, Economy, Food stamps, Global News, Government, Politics, Poverty, Society, U.S.

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“They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums… drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We can not get out… they are coming.”
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- Urgent Food Stamps To Be Ended Unless Microchipped (YouTube)

Tags: 1984, Barack Obama, Biometrics, Dictatorship, Economy, Fascism, Food stamps, George Orwell, Global News, Government, Health, Microchip, Mind-Control, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, Society, Technology, U.S.

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- Obama’s Secretary Of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: ‘Food Stamps Are A Stimulus And Creating Jobs’

- U.S. Food-Stamp Use Reaches Record 45.8 Million, USDA Says (Bloomberg, Nov. 2, 2011)

The number of Americans receiving food stamps reached a record 45.8 million in August, the government said.

The figure was 1.1 percent higher than the previous month and 8.1 percent more than a year earlier, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a report on its website. Assistance rolls are increasing as joblessness remains at 9.1 percent of the workforce.

Texas had the most food-stamp recipients in August, at 4.12 million, followed by California with 3.82 million, according to the USDA. Spending was a record $6.13 billion.

The number of Americans receiving food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has set records every month but one since December 2008.

Tags: Economy, Food stamps, Government, Politics, U.S.

- USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable? (Reuters, Aug 22, 2011):

Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren’t enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son.

Saucedo, who earns $9.70 an hour for about 26 hours a week and lives with her mother, is one of the many Americans who survive because of government handouts in what has rapidly become a food stamp nation.

Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That’s an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses.

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Tags: Economy, Food stamps, Government, Politics, U.S.

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YouTube Added: 16.08.2011

- Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: Food Stamps Are A “Stimulus” (Real Clear Politics, August 16, 2011):

Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: “Well, obviously, it’s putting people to work. Which is why we’re going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we’re going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that’s never happened in this country — something that we think is exciting in terms of job growth. I should point out, when you talk about the SNAP program or the foot stamp program, you have to recognize that it’s also an economic stimulus. Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It’s the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.”

Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Food stamps, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Politics, Tom Vilsack, U.S.

Recovery is ‘The Greatest Depression’!

- Record 44.7 Million People Celebrate Geithner’s Departure And The End Of QE2 Through Foodstamps (ZeroHedge, July 1, 2011):

The one and only clearest indication of just how effective the recovery and QE2 in general has been, comes courtesy of the USDA, whose just released update of April participation in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as “foodstamps”, shows yet another record, this time 44.647 million people, an increase from May’s 44.587 million. And after rising modestly in the last month, the average monthly benefit per household dropped again to a post April 2009 revision low of $282.38/month.

Tags: Economy, Food stamps, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Politics, Timothy Geithner

Related info:

- Time To Celebrate The Recovery: Food Stamp Usage Hits Fresh Record (ZeroHedge)

- New Mexico to end food stamp supplement (New Mexico Independent, May 31, 2011):

New Mexico will end a food stamp supplement for elderly and disabled residents, according to the Associated Press. The cuts come just as Congress is considering cuts to the food stamp program even as a record-high amount of people are receiving the benefits.

The AP reports that the Human Services Department will stop the supplement on July 1 because there is no money in the state budget for the program. The program cost half a million dollars last fiscal year.

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Tags: Economy, Food stamps, Global News, Government, New Mexico, Politics, U.S.

- Time To Celebrate The Recovery: Food Stamp Usage Hits Fresh Record (ZeroHedge, May 31, 2011):

That average monthly benefit of $133.24 for 44.199 million people will help with the purchase of one third of a very edible iPad. Food stamp participation chart presented without further commentary.

Tags: Economy, Food stamps, Global News, U.S.

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- Warren Buffett’s $600 Million INTEREST-FREE Loan From US Taxpayers Or How The Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves At Taxpayers Expense (Yahoo Finance)

May 03 — Today SNAP released the most recent food stamp numbers. Not surprisingly, we just saw another all time high 44.2 million poverty-level Americans relying on government funding for day to day sustenance. Granted the number appears to be plateauing, so all those who bought the change if not the ho[y]pe, can rejoice as it may start declining next month: a development that is sure to be herald for Obama a 4th Putin-esque term. That said, another number that has to be kept in perspective and for which we have to thank none other than Pauly-K is that offsetting these 44.2 million of impoverished Americans who can get a tax refund for writing off the American dream, are 400 Americans who accounted for 10%, or $91 billion of total, in capital gains taxes, or said otherwise, 400 US taxpayers account for 10% of all capital gains in 2007! We are currently going through old issues of Pravda to see if the Communist empire ever achieved this kind of social disparity between the nomenklatura and the proletariat (it didn’t). If we find confirmation we will post it, and lose a sizable bet which will certainly deny us any possibility of every being among the above mentioned 400.

First, the latest SNAP:

And second, at a factor of 110,500 to 1, here are the 400 people who not only account for 10% of all US capital gains taxes (Taleb was right), but end up paying a whopping (sarcasm inluded) 17% in taxes on it. Continue reading »

Tags: Economy, Food stamps, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Politics, Society, U.S.