[lbo-talk] Food stamp use rises

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I don't really care about whether there's some "abuse" of a program to help the poor by someone not quite poor enough. I care about abuse of all the rest of us by the 1 percent who own, what 40 of the wealth in the country? It mystifies me why people don't care about the exploitation of workers and the poor by the rich.

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On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> ... wherin we learn that college students were specifically eligible for
>> the program in Michigan because they were attending school.  So now
>> Michigan is changing their rules to save some money, and this is labelled
>> "abuse" ...?
> 
> 
> As someone who had to depend on foodstamps for a month this summer:
> 
> 1. The benefits are tiny. This shambles of a former Empire spends more on
> Pentagon paperclips than the entire food stamp program.
> 2. The qualification process is designed to break and humiliate people.
> Wait in line for hours, attend meetings, hear over and over again that it's
> your own damn fault for not having a job. The system is designed by the 1%
> to piss on the 99%.
> 3. I should note the social service staffers themselves are kindly, decent
> people. But they have no control over how the program is run.
> 
> -- DRR
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