Comments on: Yippee! More People Are On Food Stamps

By: wirenut

wirenut — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:23:00 +0000

A packet of seeds and canning jars don’t cost that much. Finding ground to plant in, ain’t that hard either. It’s called self-reliance, or taking control. Any questions? Stop wasting our money and teach them to provide for themselves. It lasts a lifetime and its yours once you learn how.

By: beautyofreason

beautyofreason — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:38:45 +0000

I hate to say it, and I know that many people’s struggles are real, but I have to question the hunger scale when half of the people who get food stamps either look overweight or obese.

There are also websites on extreme frugality that provide menu options for a family of four that will cost only $40 per month to produce, healthy foods such as pancakes and orange juice from concentrate if someone is really desperate for money. That information can be printed out for free at a local library.

I am reminded of my cousins, who are about to declare that they are bankrupt. They complain about the cost of health insurance but chain smoke and drink alcohol with 24k real gold leaf floating on the bottom. They are also planning to store a $3,000 Barbie doll collection and gold jewelry at a friend’s house if they go bankrupt, so they won’t lose it.

By: BillK

BillK — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:53:26 +0000

The liberal philosophy is that if people aren’t on food stamps, they must not be making enough people aware they qualify!

But I’m glad to see that silly old “self-sufficiency” stigma is going away – the more people rely on the Government for everything, the easier they are to control.

By: Petronius

Petronius — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:30:26 +0000

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

Jane Austen, “Emma” (1816).

By: GetBackJack

GetBackJack — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:15:33 +0000

I participated in Food Drives and Toy Drives years ago. I quit when it became apparent that many, if not most of the ‘families’ I was ‘helping’ were either as well off as I was, or, simply lazy and shiftless.

I stopped participating in the Feel Good Charade. On only three occasions did I take food to people who were really, truly, actually in need. The rest of them were not.

“When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both” – unknown attribution

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:26:14 +0000

“feed one in eight Americans and one in four children”

If one in eight or one in four cars, trains, boats or planes crashed we’d have a crisis on our hands.

By: proreason

proreason — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:09:59 +0000

Welcome to the future.

But don’t worry.

Obamy and his commissars will never be on food stamps.