tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post1277186523210354523..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: Are Food Stamps the Soup Lines of this Great Recession?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-11404629004753489472010-02-03T22:41:33.038-08:002010-02-03T22:41:33.038-08:00It's Something Special to read That In Missour...It's Something Special to read That In Missouri, about 100 percent who were eligible for food stamps that year took advantage of the program, the highest rate in the nation, followed by residents of Maine and Michigan, at 91 percent and 89 percent, respectivelyTerm papershttp://www.ghostpapers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-23115584575257152742009-12-26T10:49:54.606-08:002009-12-26T10:49:54.606-08:00That's right the US in in a Depression and it ...That's right the US in in a Depression and it is far from over. Just like the<br />1929 Depression the GDP is rising and so is the stock market. But<br />what makes a depression is the wealth of the general population is gone or leaving, along with rising poverty. In 2009 poverty is clearly on the rise and food stamps is an indicator. But there are many more indicators like business and personal bankruptcies. Home foreclosures. The inability of the US to provide employment for it's people. Declining home values. The list is on and on and on as the economists and politicians look for green sprouts to dance and celebrate around. Even while the people of the US go hungary and many have become homeless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-1447854591340699222009-12-25T05:36:49.694-08:002009-12-25T05:36:49.694-08:00the massive growth in professional sports,seems to...the massive growth in professional sports,seems to look like prosperity for our young people, we used to have more pride in belonging to a company years ago. Our sense of teamwork and spirit are being massaged and distracted. BobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-7536796072755507132009-12-13T17:22:08.464-08:002009-12-13T17:22:08.464-08:00The depression will not end until one of two event...The depression will not end until one of two eventualities happen, or both:<br /><br />1. Massive adoption by many communities of distributed (where many people can print money) community currencies not tied to any fiat currency <br /><br />2. Dissolvement of most of the world's major and minor fiat currencies until their highest denominated bills are worth about as much as wallpaper; and who wouldn't want a room covered floor to ceiling in Benjamins? It's going to happen.<br /><br />Of course, 2. is what they're aiming for, and they're going to ruthlessly suppress community currencies like they do other distributed mediums (Peer 2 Peer, etc.). <br /><br />Revolution and civil war seem likely in a great many countries, including America, but the EU will fracture or tyrranize first (they're headed toward fullscale tyranny).aAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-11013574377690954012009-12-10T20:09:36.508-08:002009-12-10T20:09:36.508-08:00You say you hope we're not in a depression or ...You say you hope we're not in a depression or if we were, that we're out of it now.. Right now the depression hasn't even occured yet.. the past 15months has been pre-depression, much like the initial chills and sweats before the real flu takes hold of a person.. By Bush and Obama refusing to focus on everyday people rather than boosting the financial sector, the government has made future suffering far worse than it would have or ought to have been...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-49881718862737041312009-12-10T20:02:47.973-08:002009-12-10T20:02:47.973-08:00What's left to say?
Perhaps Matt Taibbi most ...What's left to say?<br />Perhaps Matt Taibbi most recent article lays out what most of now know:<br />www.rollingstonecom/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout<br /><br />The great (half white/black) hope turned(sold) out to be Wall St/Bankters newest puppet.<br />Obama=crony capatialism. <br />Actually, it might be worse than that.<br />Especially if you all don't raise ruckus.<br /><br />Obama is the worst yet. Yes, even more so that dubya because Obama is educated and articulate.<br />Too bad he sold out. Such is life.<br />We MUST STOP the financial elites newest puppet ...........OBAMA!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-79199455073998692272009-12-10T19:51:50.452-08:002009-12-10T19:51:50.452-08:00I keep trying to impress upon everyone, a depressi...I keep trying to impress upon everyone, a depression is not what anyone generally thinks it is. Here's a study, -a view-, a case in point.<br /><br />I have read and was also told by some really-oldsters about the '29 depression and how it effected northern Maine and some other communities with which I am familiar.<br /><br />It is pretty common knowledge, and I have discussed it here before, that a lot of farms were abandoned for their property taxes during the depression. As I described before, it wasn't so much that people didn't have the money to pay the property taxes, -it was rather -that to continue to pay them -was a losing proposition.<br /><br />Farms then, -small farms-, were productive units in the 1929 economy. These small farms could not produce the revenue necessary to justify the higher property taxes that came on with the swelling '29 depression.<br /><br />I've covered all that ground before.<br /><br />What is going to be so unmistakably stark about our experience this time around -with this depression- is the utter abandonment of whole communities.<br /><br />This is true because unlike the last depression when 90% of the people in the country lived -on the farm- now people generally live in beltways, subdivisions, wards and precincts and in super-suburban sprawl.<br /><br />The high cost of living, -commuting, the lack of jobs, and the impossibility of paying these associated costs- is going to make a lot of communities look just like Flint - Michigan -and countless others that have already or begun to succumb to this phenomenon of total abandonment.<br /><br />California has many communities that only currently look like Flint-lite. More than a dozen states are extensively falling free-fall toward this eventual outcome of total community abandonment.<br /><br />There is a growing underclass of many-millions living in motor vehicles, which would have seemed like an impossible luxury to the participants of the '29 recession. But of course the '29ers didn't have to contend with the high cost of trying to keep a vehicle running on today's roads.<br /><br />Food stamps -are- the bread line in this depression. But do not expect such obvious parallels everywhere you look for them.<br /><br />Community abandonment is encroaching everywhere -where municipal governments have run crazy with their budgets, their debt load -and their pension entitlements.<br /><br />And most municipal governments -have- run crazy with their budgets, their debt load -and their obscene pension entitlements.<br /><br />The whole country is being driven to the brink of not even being able to afford its retired government employees, let alone social security or the impossibly high cost of its ongoing, unionized, operational hobgobblinisms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-83475532359178388832009-12-10T19:12:01.234-08:002009-12-10T19:12:01.234-08:00Nice post...I just mentioned the food stamps argum...Nice post...I just mentioned the food stamps argument to one of my associates yesterday. The lines for this depression will be outside of emergency rooms. <br /><br />Check out this chart of the Athens (Greece) Index. I believe it could be a preview of what is to come here. Perfect 5 waves down. Almost textbook. Let me know what you think.<br /><br />http://absolute-investments.blogspot.com/2009/12/greece-preview-of-whats-to-come-shortly.htmlRobert Hammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00102619620539722241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-72081728419327992652009-12-10T17:43:32.169-08:002009-12-10T17:43:32.169-08:00Oh yes, make no mistake, we are in a depression. ...Oh yes, make no mistake, we are in a depression. And just as the Great Depression didn't really get going and look that bad in the early years, we're just in the early innings of this new depression.<br /><br />And no doubt, food stamps are today's soup lines. Without this program and other programs (WIC, welfare, etc.) we would have massive soup lines, already. And this thing's just getting started. Thanks to all the idiocy of the last two decades, ignoring all those who shouted warnings, treating them as alarmist nut jobs.Onlookerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07742157936955263465noreply@blogger.com