[lbo-talk] Living on nothing but Food Stamps ...

[Mike Ballard]

I'm waiting for the flood of pleas from our rulers' electronic and print spokespeople for sacrifice on the part of the working class to save us all from the inflationary currents which the GFC forced upon us. Okay, so our rulers saved the economy by having Treasury print a lot of money which has no value to back it up.  But surely, somebody has to pay for this printing and it will be 'the taxpayers' i.e. the working class because that's what's good for business and what's good for business is good for the nation.

Mike B)

Jordan posted:

  
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/us/03foodstamps.html?hp

[...]

With food-stamp use at a record high and surging by the day, Ms. 
Bermudez belongs to an overlooked subgroup that is growing especially 
fast: recipients with no cash income.

[...]

About one in 50 Americans now lives in a household with a reported 
income that consists of nothing but a food-stamp card.

[...]

One in eight Americans now receives food stamps, including one in four 
children. 

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