Comments on: Sign Of The Times: Food Stamp Use Soars

CBS Evening News: Nearly One In 11 Americans Uses Government Program To Make Ends Meet

[takebackusa]

But Rowdy - I thought you said I was slownewsdayz! Make up your mind. Which one of us is it? Talk about paranoid !

[zzy-izzy]

Roudy just asking are you a male or not

[zzy-izzy]

Is Roudy and fromtexwithlove one and the same

[hultsman1]

I would like Mr. O''Donnell''s address asap as well. I do not yet see it posted, so please send it to me. Thanks.

[straightmate]

I remember this thing called a GARDEN. I''ve seen these pathetic plastic cards these people use. I''ve also seen how badly this system needs revamped. People will usually take whatever they can if it''s free. I think increasing the rhetorical paperwork and qualifications along with some good old planned parenting programs in the inner city might clean this up a bit.

[grandesign]

was born in the 60s. Uhhhh, today we have AIDS, the War in Iraq, racism and a Recession.
Posted by VcofReason at 08:16 AM : Dec 24, 2008

Yeah, Christmas Eve in Iraq. I''m going to go play Christmas tunes around the Green Zone now. My first tune on the flute will dedicated to you guys, the pathetic pessimists.

"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Let Nothing you Dismay"

My second will be for everyone.

"Joy to the World"

[jtmangum49]

Food stamps are ment to be a helping hand not a way of life.What has happened is people want it to be a way of life instead of doing better for there selfs.They need to try to do better.I applied for them I am unemployed but iI will do better and I will get off of them and I will Go back to work.If your field has no jobs diversiy and get a new trade and by the GRACE of God we will over come

[vcofreason]

Right. And we had polio, WWII, blacks in the back of the bus, The Depressiion.....yeah, the good old days. Funny how you people who want to go backward only remember the Waltons as the way is was. It was never that way.

Posted by FloydZeppd at 08:12 AM
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Um, it was for me. I was born in the 60s. Uhhhh, today we have AIDS, the War in Iraq, racism and a Recession. Of course, I''m not a pathetic pessimist like you. You must be a barrel of fun to be around.

[grandesign]

So your solution is to drag those who make enough to feed and take care of their families down to the level where they can''''t??
Posted by irmcvet971 at 08:03 AM : Dec 24, 2008


Uhhhh, lets see. $15,000,000 annual for top wage earner, $15,000 annual for low wage earner. Now move the lower number to $30K, that makes the higher number $14,985,000. Now make the lower number $50K, that makes the higher number $14,950,000.

Now who is going to eat better, and will the other eat less? Now multiple the change (70% increase) for the lower wage earner by the 55% of the population, and maybe those top wage earners will be making %5,000,000. In this example, 2ee how a $10M change in wages would provide for a more balanced society?

[vcofreason]

Back ''in the day'', dad worked and mom worked at home, taking care of the home and the family. We had one car and dad could maintain pretty much everything except the big stuff. No one went to "Jiffy Lube"; we changed our own oil, spark plugs etc.

We didn''t have cell phones with $100 a month calling plans, cable TV with $150 bills, internet service and we most certainly did NOT have two huge SUVs in the driveway. We lived in a modestly sized home that no matter where you were inside it, you could call someone and they would hear you.

The world is a better place (so we say) due to the technology we have today. Instead of Sunday''s being a day to stay home and spend it with the family, everyone heads off to Walmart to buy Chinese junk and cheap toilet paper. Instead of making a home cooked meal and sitting down together, we head to the movies and eat chicken fingers.

I know people say how "far we''ve come" but some of us see things as backwards and frenzied. I am one of those people. Simpler times were great. Children listened, people cared about how they looked and how they treated others.