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By Vaticanus   Follow   Sat, 11 Aug 2012, 8:49pm   729 views   14 comments
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More than one in seven Americans is taking taxpayer dollars and feeding themselves with "foodstamps."

http://live.wsj.com/video/why-the-us-is-in-an-invisible-depression/CB0D1B15-9635-43C9-8F30-5117A20A62F1.html#!CB0D1B15-9635-43C9-8F30-5117A20A62F1

If foodstamp users were lined up at soup kitchens like in the 1930's rather than at supermakets, Big K's and Superwalmarts the reality of this 21st Century depression would be apparent. How did we get here? Well certainly there are a multitude of reasons and both political parties in their quest for power, and Wallstreet and Mainstreet greed combined to create the present reality. This all aided of course by semi-invisable influence and in some instances collusion of the powers that be (the extremely wealthy) throughout the world who seem to always turn things in their favor regardless of who is in power, how the stock market is performing, whether there is drought, flood or the weather is just right.

So here we are, in a depression, though to the powers that be their standard of living is probably ever increasing. But I am not interested in writing about the powers that be today. What I am concerned about is a that everyone needs appropriate nutrition. We ought not let the members of our community, especially the most vulnerable, suffer malnutrition. But is foodstamps the best way to deal with the situation? I, should say not. For one, this is a defacto subsidy of grocers and everyone who has a role in supplying groceries. It is a form of government-corporate collusion. Foodstamps are also, of course, a form of theft. Government run foodstamp programs steal from those that have to give to those that want. Notice, I didn't say need, because it would seem by the waistlines of some of the people I have seen with EBT cards that they could stand stand to miss a meal or two or at the very least would benefit from a more scientifically proportioned diet. And that is what brings me to this final conclusion. Food stamps ought to be abolished, in favor of cafeterias, or kitchens that will serve food to people in want, and assure them a diet appropriate to their needs.

Ideally these cafeterias or kitchens would be run by charities, but even if civic authorities were to establish and run them using taxes as a funding source it would be a significant improvement over the current EBT programs. There is no reason our taxes should be spent by obese people on Oreos, nachos and cases of Coke products at Walmart. Lets stop the madness! Lets bring back the soup kitchen, and with the advice of dieticians give people in want a menu, and portions that meet their needs. In the process we will save a lot of money, and hopefully deliver some people from obesity and its complications.

America deserves better than foodstamps.

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1. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 247 threads 4,683 comments

   1   5:48am Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   If your dead Grandma Voted for Obama, she didn't Vote that Vote a Ballodero did.

2. omerde Follow Befriend 15 comments

   2   6:05am Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   G'Day, Sometimes one has to look at other 'alternative' websites for the truth. For instance: http://rt.com/usa/news/million-us-residents-welfare-268/ Regards, Omerde

3. Honest Abe Follow Befriend (41) 91 threads 1,806 comments

   3   7:18am Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Obama has become known as The Food Stamp President (FAIL).

4. Call it Crazy Follow Befriend 229 threads 2,767 comments

   4   8:03am Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Unfortunately, this article is spot on... If the country discontinued food stamps, we would have a Mad Max situation faster than you could say Oreos. The rioting would be huge!! Getting these people up off their fat asses and down to the soup kitchen would be way too much work for them. They would raid and pillage every nearby store!!!

5. Vaticanus Follow Befriend (1) 77 threads 1,120 comments

   5   11:00am Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Call it Crazy says The would raid and pillage every nearby store!!! Prepare for the cannibal anarchy my friend. Where is Apocolypsefuck when you need him?

6. Vaticanus Follow Befriend (1) 77 threads 1,120 comments

   6   11:02am Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Brentok3 says I've known a lot of people whose bodies were completely worn out by a lifetime of physical labor jobs. I believe there are many more whose bodies are completely worn out by a lifetime of eating the wrong foods, and not doing any/enough physical labor.

7. HEY YOU Follow Befriend (4) 328 threads 913 comments

   7   11:23am Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Obama wouldn't be the food stamp president if the Conservatives, Republicans, & Teabaggers that are on stamps would reject them as the true patriotic Americans that they are. How are these states voting? http://247wallst.com/2011/09/14/americas-poorest-states/2/

8. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 761 threads 7,688 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   8   12:08pm Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   CaptainShuddup says If your dead Grandma Voted for Obama, she didn't Vote that Vote a Ballodero did. Voter fraud is non-existent. Election fraud is rampant. Election fraud is why Bush got to be president and why no votes were counted for Ron Paul in many voting districts where people came out and said they voted for Ron Paul. Election fraud is committed by companies lie DieBolt.

9. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 761 threads 7,688 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   9   12:13pm Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   The Second Great Depression started in 2001 with Bush and with outsourcing. It was deepened by the Housing Bubble and prolonged by the bank bailouts and the government interference in propping out housing prices. It's being continued by the bank's failure to foreclose legally and put homes on the market at market prices. Only when housing is affordable will people be able to make discretionary purchases and stimulate the economy. High housing and health care costs are strangling the economy while outsourcing starves production, and unpaid overtime undercuts consumption because the overworked producers aren't keeping any of the wealth they produced in overtime and the unemployed lose job opportunities when employees do the work of two people.

10. Honest Abe Follow Befriend (41) 91 threads 1,806 comments

    10   12:37pm Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   The start of the 2nd Great Depression were the socialistic policies of FDR. Add to that other failed policies championed by both Dems and Rino's over many decades, and here we are today...in the financial tolite.

11. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 247 threads 4,683 comments

    11   1:11pm Sun 12 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Dan8267 says The Second Great Depression started in 2001 with... ...two people. I agree with every thing you said, except outsourcing started long before Bush. We just didn't feel it until then because it hit technology and customer service, two last bastion of safe high paying jobs. That America traded labor and production for. Everyone was going to have a Computer job. I remember in the early 90's there were Computer consultants that were about as computer savvy as your average computer user, is today, no more no less. These people were making 6 figures because they knew how to operate a computer.

12. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    12   7:31am Mon 13 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   I wish you a Merry Welfare and a Happy Food Staaaammmp...

13. Call it Crazy Follow Befriend 229 threads 2,767 comments

    13   8:26am Mon 13 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Vaticanus says Brentok3 says I've known a lot of people whose bodies were completely worn out by a lifetime of physical labor jobs. I believe there are many more whose bodies are completely worn out by a lifetime of eating the wrong foods, and not doing any/enough physical labor. Crap..... you beat me to that response..... :)

14. Call it Crazy Follow Befriend 229 threads 2,767 comments

    14   8:33am Mon 13 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Brentok3 says Anybody who is concerned about tax dollars being wasted should work in a food pantry as a volunteer and see what people actually live like. It's true that many poor people are fat, and no doubt many are lazy too, but many got that way after working a long series of dead end jobs with no health insurance, etc. We donate and drop off food regularly at a local food bank, and I can tell you for certainty, the people coming in for "pick-up's" didn't get that way because they were working dead end jobs with no health insurance!!! Health insurance doesn't even enter the equation! They got that way by NOT working dead end jobs but by sitting on the asses at home eating crappy diets via EBT cards and NOT working or exercising.