The number of Americans receiving food stamps topped 40 million for the first time in March as the jobless rate hovered near a 26-year high.
Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases totaled 40.2 million, up 21 percent from a year earlier and 1.2 percent more than in February, the Department of Agriculture said yesterday on its Web site.
Food aid climbed as the unemployment rate stayed at 9.7 percent in March for a third straight month, near levels last seen in 1983, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(Source: NY Post)
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Compare this story with the one about the increasing fees for cars.
More people on food stamps IE under government control forced to be dependent on ‘big brother’ while losing the financial ability to have the freedom to drive.
Mobility is related to freedom and prosperity.
More mobil people have more options for employment ad business and personal lifestyle.
Restricting more people taking away their mobility and forcing them to be dependent on government helps restrict their freedom and helps increase the poverty and government control over their lives.
In the 1970’s government workers made far less then they could at the same jobs, in the private sector.
Today they make on average twice as much as in the private sector and the federal government is massively increasing it’s number of employees as the economy shrinks.
We are systematically being turned into a commmunist controlled, welfare country as the liberal plans continue to come to fruition.
hereorthere,
Food stamps help poor people — some of them Jews — who would otherwise not have adequate nutrition. It is a hallmark of a compassionate society to take care of those who are less well off. It was a hallmark of Sedom to leave them to suffer.
And the “mobility” you support has a huge cost: Massive amounts of money being transferred to the anti-Semitic Arab and Venezuelan dictators. I’m quite willing to give up some mobility in order to help de-fund the anti-Semites!
Finally, your statistics are misleading because you fail to take into account the varying degrees of education and training required for government vs. private sector jobs. A recent study found that “about 48% of public sector employees have completed college, compared to 23% of people working in the private sector….When comparing employees with comparable earnings determinants, such as education level and work experience, state workers earn about 11% less than their counterparts in the private sector, and local workers about 12% less….[and]
The pay gap has increased over the last 15 years.” I’d show a link but it is against YWN rules.