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MrRodgers -> RE: The American Dream! 43 million on food stamps! 30 Million Unemployed (5/8/2011 7:27:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
Given the unemployment numbers (I'll take your cherry picked one rather than argue about it), that's not at all a bad food stamp number, considering that unemployed/underemployed people have families. It also means that with a pick-up in the economy (i.e., to the point of returning workers to employment), we can expect the food stamp numbers to fall as well.
I'd say the program is doing exactly what it's designed to do.
Yes, you are correct, food stamps are a safety net but now not surprisingly, straining the taxpayers budget. The point is why is it becoming increasingly necessary ?
For close to a century the whole idea, the concept for economy has been that something called capitalism would best serve society and do this by making it possible for and in fact was supposed to make everybody richer. It obviously does not because it cannot.
Capitalism was to provide more then enough jobs...it has not. It was to actually result in ever increasing productivity gains...it has but followed by corresponding pay raises...it has not. It was to provide the efficiencies of competition and thus the lowest most 'competitive' prices...it does not. Vital markets have been narrowed by mergers productivity gains have been substantial yet raises almost nothing if the job isn't exported.
The results are becoming all too obvious to see. Capitalism produces debt as it must to provide continuing huge and ever growing profits. That debt all throughout society...is going up virtually every minute. Studies have shown that since about 1970, after inflation, over 1/2 the population are no richer or are in fact...poorer. Poor enough...you need food stamps.
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