Comments on: The new normal? USDA says food stamps are good for the country http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/ The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment Sun, 19 May 2013 19:28:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lester Osborne http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-227727 Lester Osborne Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:46:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-227727 It's hard for me to understand how passing out food stamps is going to generate an income that's good for the nation.  Isn't the money used to give out these free foot stamps coming from the TAX payer dollar. Coming from and over spending government as it is, doesn't really sound as promising as you are trying to lead us to believe. It’s hard for me to understand how passing out food stamps is going to generate an income that’s good for the nation.  Isn’t the money used to give out these free foot stamps coming from the TAX payer dollar. Coming from and over spending government as it is, doesn’t really sound as promising as you are trying to lead us to believe.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225302 Anonymous Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:48:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225302 Good points. And that single elderly woman probably WORKED all her life and PAID INTO Social Security and other systems, but she nets less because she hasn't spawned a bunch of needy offspring to add to the welfare rolls. The whole "progressive" system/agenda is upside down. Good points. And that single elderly woman probably WORKED all her life and PAID INTO Social Security and other systems, but she nets less because she hasn’t spawned a bunch of needy offspring to add to the welfare rolls. The whole “progressive” system/agenda is upside down.

]]> By: Dawn Brayton http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225148 Dawn Brayton Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:42:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225148 That's just plain weird. Nothing like food stamps to make a person feel poor even if they get other government help. But maybe it IS getting sort of normal. More people on stamps and less people clerking in grocery stores has made sure those of us who would rather not stand in line behind anyone using them(because of feeling embarassed for that person)actually having to since the other checkout lanes are closed. That’s just plain weird. Nothing like food stamps to make a person feel poor even if they get other government help. But maybe it IS getting sort of normal. More people on stamps and less people clerking in grocery stores has made sure those of us who would rather not stand in line behind anyone using them(because of feeling embarassed for that person)actually having to since the other checkout lanes are closed.

]]> By: Kol Johnson http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225130 Kol Johnson Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:30:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225130 Fallacy #1 is that the 2.5 billion in economic activity is new.  When they take the 1.3 billion out of our pockets we lose 2.5 billion in economic activity we would have created if they had let us keep our own money so we could spend it where we saw fit. Fallacy #1 is that the 2.5 billion in economic activity is new.  When they take the 1.3 billion out of our pockets we lose 2.5 billion in economic activity we would have created if they had let us keep our own money so we could spend it where we saw fit.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225112 Anonymous Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:29:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225112 Go2Blazes: The food pantry in our area is giving it to people who don't qualify for food stamps, or don't get enough on their cards to make it for a month.  Some people get more and some get less.  A woman with 3 kids living with her mom and dad will still get more on EBT than a single elderly woman living on her own.  And the elderly lady probably tries to live on SS alone.  This is where I am getting fed up with abuse.  They need to take into account things like rent, utilities, etc.  Not how many illegitimate kids you have. Go2Blazes: The food pantry in our area is giving it to people who don’t qualify for food stamps, or don’t get enough on their cards to make it for a month.  Some people get more and some get less.  A woman with 3 kids living with her mom and dad will still get more on EBT than a single elderly woman living on her own.  And the elderly lady probably tries to live on SS alone.  This is where I am getting fed up with abuse.  They need to take into account things like rent, utilities, etc.  Not how many illegitimate kids you have.

]]> By: Snorri Sturluson http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225106 Snorri Sturluson Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:59:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225106 The Federal Government causes a recession, implements regulations to inhibit job growth and economic recovery, increases borrowing and spending and raises taxes on those working.  Yes food stamps as well as unemployment compensation are beneficial under such conditions. Consider that without armed guards, electrified fences, gas chambers, pestilential housing, the Obama administration is manipulating the country into an "Arbeit Macht Frei" dichotomous society. I.E.: One must work, pay an undefined fair share in taxes, relinquish wealth to the government and meet the Death Panel when sickness pervades. Basically a serf's life. The Federal Government causes a recession, implements regulations to inhibit job growth and economic recovery, increases borrowing and spending and raises taxes on those working.  Yes food stamps as well as unemployment compensation are beneficial under such conditions. Consider that without armed guards, electrified fences, gas chambers, pestilential housing, the Obama administration is manipulating the country into an “Arbeit Macht Frei” dichotomous society. I.E.: One must work, pay an undefined fair share in taxes, relinquish wealth to the government and meet the Death Panel when sickness pervades. Basically a serf’s life.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225105 Anonymous Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:57:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225105 Gosh, gee I guess all that stuff I learnt in scule doesn't matter much... Seriously, I see a social system slowly sinking into what Mexico is. Everybody stands on corners with their hands-out. No, they don't have food stamps here but they are "entitled" to a Christmas bonus (alguinaldo) they are entitled to an annual profit sharing from the company they work for (utilidades) but if the company has a bad year they don't have to pay the company-makes sense? er, no... the government, at ALL levels treats the citizens as children. They build parks (poorly) they make streets (very poorly) and then the government spends a mountain of time patting itself on its back. I mean TV and radio promotions saying "Look at me, see all the wonderful things I do for you?" Although the works are of absolute poor quality and don't last very long, they publicize how wonderful they are. But the government has created a social system where the citizens are dependent on what the government will provide for them.But at the same time let's examine the quality of life in Mexico versus that in the United States. We haven't dipped to the level of that in Mexico (or other countries) but here, they don't invest in training people, I remember way-back-when where the best way to help people is to teach them how to do things so they can provide for themselves and leave the list of those demanding from the government. No, here they simply continue to take blankets, metal sheets(to cover their houses) and construct (poor) housing and handing the people everything. The result... ignorant incapable people who pass along the welfare mentality to their children and possibly drug dependent, crooked, and anyone who has been to Mexico no doubt has been anoyed by young boyd jumping onto the hood of their cars and starting to wash the windshield and scratching their paint in the process. So teach people to grow vegitables, show them how to work-albeit in today's world. Provide capacitation centers to train people even for the most basic of work tasks...er, that Americans don't take but Mexicans do. (Room cleaning in hotels, working in fast food restaurants, trash collectors, construction workers and so on...)and get these people into useful-productuve positions where they can provide for themselves and contribute to society as a whole. Gosh, gee I guess all that stuff I learnt in scule doesn’t matter much…
Seriously, I see a social system slowly sinking into what Mexico is. Everybody stands on corners with their hands-out. No, they don’t have food stamps here but they are “entitled” to a Christmas bonus (alguinaldo) they are entitled to an annual profit sharing from the company they work for (utilidades) but if the company has a bad year they don’t have to pay the company-makes sense? er, no… the government, at ALL levels treats the citizens as children. They build parks (poorly) they make streets (very poorly) and then the government spends a mountain of time patting itself on its back. I mean TV and radio promotions saying “Look at me, see all the wonderful things I do for you?” Although the works are of absolute poor quality and don’t last very long, they publicize how wonderful they are.
But the government has created a social system where the citizens are dependent on what the government will provide for them.But at the same time let’s examine the quality of life in Mexico versus that in the United States. We haven’t dipped to the level of that in Mexico (or other countries) but here, they don’t invest in training people, I remember way-back-when where the best way to help people is to teach them how to do things so they can provide for themselves and leave the list of those demanding from the government. No, here they simply continue to take blankets, metal sheets(to cover their houses) and construct (poor) housing and handing the people everything. The result… ignorant incapable people who pass along the welfare mentality to their children and possibly drug dependent, crooked, and anyone who has been to Mexico no doubt has been anoyed by young boyd jumping onto the hood of their cars and starting to wash the windshield and scratching their paint in the process.
So teach people to grow vegitables, show them how to work-albeit in today’s world. Provide capacitation centers to train people even for the most basic of work tasks…er, that Americans don’t take but Mexicans do. (Room cleaning in hotels, working in fast food restaurants, trash collectors, construction workers and so on…)and get these people into useful-productuve positions where they can provide for themselves and contribute to society as a whole.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225097 Anonymous Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:32:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225097 What idiotic statistics! Let's say the food stamp program keeps growing and reaches 90% of US citizens. Who's going to pay for all this expense? According to their thinking, the US will be saved because issuing so many food stamps will create twice as much spending? Where will the tax revenue come from? Oh yes, it will be the top 1% giving away all their lifelong savings to cover America. How stupid are Americans to buy such irrational logic? What idiotic statistics! Let’s say the food stamp program keeps growing and reaches 90% of US citizens. Who’s going to pay for all this expense? According to their thinking, the US will be saved because issuing so many food stamps will create twice as much spending? Where will the tax revenue come from? Oh yes, it will be the top 1% giving away all their lifelong savings to cover America. How stupid are Americans to buy such irrational logic?

]]> By: Chris DeMarsh http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225068 Chris DeMarsh Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:42:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225068 That will be made illegal, in some areas it already is. That will be made illegal, in some areas it already is.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/28/the-new-normal-usda-says-food-stamps-are-good-for-the-country/#comment-225055 Anonymous Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:53:00 +0000 /?p=43949#comment-225055 A local food pantry is proud that it provided food to <B>45,000 individuals last year.</B> A typical pantry box weighs THIRTY pounds and contains a nutritious THREE-DAY food supply for each family member... WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THESE *HUNGRY* PEOPLE COMING FROM? (And are these people also receiving food stamps in addition to these free handouts?) A local food pantry is proud that it provided food to 45,000 individuals last year. A typical pantry box weighs THIRTY pounds and contains a nutritious THREE-DAY food supply for each family member…

WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THESE *HUNGRY* PEOPLE COMING FROM?
(And are these people also receiving food stamps in addition to these free handouts?)

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