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Originally Posted by villagerjack
The other HALF should not be on Food Stamps. Actually it is about 50 Million people growing way out of control this last 4 years.,
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While it is true that an enormous number of Americans screened for food stamps do qualify, to suggest that it is only the last four years is downright inaccurate, as this table will show (unless, of course, the writer is commenting on issues other than food stamps...):
http://www.trivisonno.com/wp-content...s-Monthly2.jpg
According to this chart, the most recent sudden spike was in Sept 2008, after the beginning of the tanking of the economy, and the increases since then have been significant. But it certainly didn't START four years ago. Our economy took many, many years to "walk into the woods," and we're not going to be able to walk out in four months or four years.
The stock market crash that took place in October 1929 took a couple of years to manifest itself into the Great Depression. It took President Roosevelt many years to get us out of the situation that he inherited, finally ending with the onset of World War II, and even then it took years. I guess wars are good for the economy. Certainly major corporations benefit greatly from war!
As another poster pointed out, what's the difference between those of us who qualify for food stamps versus those of us who use loopholes, sometimes questionable, on our tax returns, and even more questionable "corporate welfare" issues. At first I opposed the bailouts in the auto industry, feeling business should float or sink according to supply and demand principles, but now I look back and eat my words, seeing an industry with thousands of jobs having been saved and is back to profitable.