mick silver
1st September 2011, 09:29 AM
http://www.thedailybell.com/2861/DB-Briefs-EU-Hits-a-German-Wall-USA-Food-Stamps-for-All-For-Now-Hurricane-Irenes-Fear-Based-Politics-Surge-to-the-Fore ...
USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable? ... 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. – Reuters (javascript:showWindow(500,800,'/floatWindow.cfm?id=2551');)
Dominant Social Theme: America is a compassionate nation and food stamps are a concrete example of how compassion operates.
Free-Market Analysis: The demise and fall of the United States is sad to watch. From a Republic that created jobs and innovation for the entire world to a nation that produces only poverty and military hardware, the US's fall has taken place in front of a disbelieving world. Even now many around the globe still are sure that America is a land of great opportunity. They have no idea of how the US has changed: the endless security measures; the invasiveness of the military-industrial complex (javascript:showWindow(500,800,'/floatWindow.cfm?id=1864');); the oppressive taxation and regulation; the general involvement of the government at a federal, state and local level in every aspect of life. All of these factors are draining what is left of America's entrepreneurial vitality.
What is left in America is aptly summed up by the food-stamp program that serves one-eighth of America's total population. But like all government programs, it will eventually prove too costly now that so many Americans depend on it. Citizens will again find as they have before that government is not a partner but an adversary and that there is no such thing as a compassionate bureaucracy. Government programs such as food-stamps are merely a way-station on the journey to totalitarianism (javascript:showWindow(500,800,'/floatWindow.cfm?id=1924');) and massive depression and dysfunction. There is no reason to believe the increasingly problematic American journey toward failure will end anywhere else but the "dustbin of history."
USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable? ... 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. – Reuters (javascript:showWindow(500,800,'/floatWindow.cfm?id=2551');)
Dominant Social Theme: America is a compassionate nation and food stamps are a concrete example of how compassion operates.
Free-Market Analysis: The demise and fall of the United States is sad to watch. From a Republic that created jobs and innovation for the entire world to a nation that produces only poverty and military hardware, the US's fall has taken place in front of a disbelieving world. Even now many around the globe still are sure that America is a land of great opportunity. They have no idea of how the US has changed: the endless security measures; the invasiveness of the military-industrial complex (javascript:showWindow(500,800,'/floatWindow.cfm?id=1864');); the oppressive taxation and regulation; the general involvement of the government at a federal, state and local level in every aspect of life. All of these factors are draining what is left of America's entrepreneurial vitality.
What is left in America is aptly summed up by the food-stamp program that serves one-eighth of America's total population. But like all government programs, it will eventually prove too costly now that so many Americans depend on it. Citizens will again find as they have before that government is not a partner but an adversary and that there is no such thing as a compassionate bureaucracy. Government programs such as food-stamps are merely a way-station on the journey to totalitarianism (javascript:showWindow(500,800,'/floatWindow.cfm?id=1924');) and massive depression and dysfunction. There is no reason to believe the increasingly problematic American journey toward failure will end anywhere else but the "dustbin of history."