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Posted: 11/12/2012 4:01 PM
Food Stamps continue to rise  (24 votes)
August count finally released on 11/12/12? Hmmmmmmmmmm. Until people start getting 40 hour work weeks or OT, this number will continue to rise. But we are on the right track.  http://www.kansascity.com/2012...ood-stamps.html
Last edited 11/12/2012 4:12 PM by Sayers
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Posted: 11/12/2012 4:16 PM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise  (11 votes)
My wife is in charge of SNAP outreach in AR. If she does her job well, people like you seem to think that's a bad thing. I don't know what to make of it.
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Posted: 11/12/2012 4:36 PM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise  (8 votes)
You can buy steak with a vision card , yum
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Posted: 11/12/2012 4:43 PM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (17 votes)
The problem's the worst in heavily GOP dominated states Sayers.
If the problem is Democratic policies, why aren't places like Kansas beacons of economic growth?
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Posted: 11/12/2012 8:37 PM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (9 votes)
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What this Country needs is a Department of Common Sense. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:35 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise  (5 votes)
EvolveHawk wrote: The problem's the worst in heavily GOP dominated states Sayers.
If the problem is Democratic policies, why aren't places like Kansas beacons of economic growth? Didn't realize that the KS food stamp program was such a drain on the federal budget. Your example, not mine. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:51 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise  (1 vote)
EvolveHawk wrote: The problem's the worst in heavily GOP dominated states Sayers.
If the problem is Democratic policies, why aren't places like Kansas beacons of economic growth? The highest increases from July 2011 to July 2012 were Hawaii (10.0 percent), Florida (9.6 percent), Georgia (7.2 percent), Colorado (7.0 percent), and Delaware (7.0 percent). |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:31 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (9 votes)
DWKB wrote:
EvolveHawk wrote: The problem's the worst in heavily GOP dominated states Sayers.
If the problem is Democratic policies, why aren't places like Kansas beacons of economic growth? The highest increases from July 2011 to July 2012 were Hawaii (10.0 percent), Florida (9.6 percent), Georgia (7.2 percent), Colorado (7.0 percent), and Delaware (7.0 percent). You're cherry-picking 1 year (why July 11 to July 12? Why not look back over Obama's entire term? Why look just at the state level, why not the county level DWKB? Oops, Bloomberg did that Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:43 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (2 votes)
EvolveHawk wrote:
DWKB wrote:
EvolveHawk wrote: The problem's the worst in heavily GOP dominated states Sayers.
If the problem is Democratic policies, why aren't places like Kansas beacons of economic growth? The highest increases from July 2011 to July 2012 were Hawaii (10.0 percent), Florida (9.6 percent), Georgia (7.2 percent), Colorado (7.0 percent), and Delaware (7.0 percent). You're cherry-picking 1 year (why July 11 to July 12?
Why not look back over Obama's entire term? Why look just at the state level, why not the county level DWKB?
Oops, Bloomberg did that
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data compiled by Bloomberg.
I wasn't purposely cherry picking. I was quoting FRAC and the reason for the dates is because July 2012 is the latest and they always compare the previous years highest increases in their reports. I would like it if this problem was looked at as an American problem and not as Republican hypocrisy or Democratic dependence.
Last edited 11/13/2012 9:48 AM by DWKB
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Posted: 11/13/2012 10:01 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise  (10 votes)
something tells me those individuals did not vote for Romney.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 10:09 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (8 votes)
NDJHAWK wrote: something tells me those individuals did not vote for Romney. You would be surprised...most of those people are not too bright. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:06 PM
Re: Food Stamps continue to rise (4 votes)
Yeah, **** eating.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:07 PM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (8 votes)
I wasn't pointing fingers, just showing how wrong-headed the "47%" narrative really is yet again
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Posted: 11/13/2012 5:02 PM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise  (10 votes)
DWKB wrote: My wife is in charge of SNAP outreach in AR. If she does her job well, people like you seem to think that's a bad thing. I don't know what to make of it. just what do you consider doing her job well? Providing quality service to those who need it or growing dependency? |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 5:05 PM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (6 votes)
Hawker13 wrote:
DWKB wrote: My wife is in charge of SNAP outreach in AR. If she does her job well, people like you seem to think that's a bad thing. I don't know what to make of it. just what do you consider doing her job well? Providing quality service to those who need it or growing dependency? How do you imagine her "growing dependency" when you ask this question? |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:50 PM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (1 vote)
I don't see how anyone would be excited to get food stamps. I certainly wouldn't be.
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Posted: 11/14/2012 12:40 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (1 vote)
Hawker13 wrote:
DWKB wrote: My wife is in charge of SNAP outreach in AR. If she does her job well, people like you seem to think that's a bad thing. I don't know what to make of it. just what do you consider doing her job well? Providing quality service to those who need it or growing dependency? I would say making sure people don't starve would be a start. |
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Posted: 11/16/2012 8:09 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise  (3 votes)
DWKB wrote:
Hawker13 wrote:
DWKB wrote: My wife is in charge of SNAP outreach in AR. If she does her job well, people like you seem to think that's a bad thing. I don't know what to make of it. just what do you consider doing her job well? Providing quality service to those who need it or growing dependency? How do you imagine her "growing dependency" when you ask this question? So, I've seen you make a few posts after this question. Was your question serious and sincere or just a cavalier way of taking a jab at my wife and moving on? |
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Posted: 11/16/2012 10:53 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (2 votes)
EvolveHawk wrote: I wasn't pointing fingers, just showing how wrong-headed the "47%" narrative really is yet again I agree the 47% comment was dumb. Yes, there is a set of people in this country that have pretty much given up on life and have zero motivation except to play the "woe is me" card and take whatever government handout they can get. But that % is far less than 47%. The dirty little secret that the media will never tell you is that the 2012 election had little to do with economics. People didn't necessarily vote their economic self-interest, or else as you and others rightly point out you would see the poor in Mississippi and Alabama favor Obama and the wealthy in New York and Connecticut favor Romney. The election had everything to do with racial identity. Blacks and Latinos identify with Obama much better than they do Romney, for obvious reasons. And that's true across the socio-economic spectrum (though I'll grant that those two groups in particular on average are lower). |
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Posted: 11/16/2012 11:09 AM
RE: Food Stamps continue to rise (3 votes)
SMUJhawk wrote:
EvolveHawk wrote: I wasn't pointing fingers, just showing how wrong-headed the "47%" narrative really is yet again
I agree the 47% comment was dumb. Yes, there is a set of people in this country that have pretty much given up on life and have zero motivation except to play the "woe is me" card and take whatever government handout they can get. But that % is far less than 47%.
The dirty little secret that the media will never tell you is that the 2012 election had little to do with economics. People didn't necessarily vote their economic self-interest, or else as you and others rightly point out you would see the poor in Mississippi and Alabama favor Obama and the wealthy in New York and Connecticut favor Romney. The election had everything to do with racial identity. Blacks and Latinos identify with Obama much better than they do Romney, for obvious reasons. And that's true across the socio-economic spectrum (though I'll grant that those two groups in particular on average are lower). This is false, insulting to minorities and a complete cop-out. Many voters, both white and minority, understand what economic policies and philosophies Romney and Republicans stood for, and they rejected that. Rich people can believe it's in their economic self-interest to pay higher taxes -- or they may be motivated by more than self-interest. Not everybody lives in a myopic bubble, seeing only the most immediate, personal and superficial consequences of policy. (And wealthy people in Connecticut probably did vote Romney, anyway. Greenwich and the surrounding area isn't exactly known as a bastion of liberalism.) |
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