US Food Stamp recipients top 34 million

2009 August 06 post from voodoo

We seem to be breaking records daily here in the US... none of them good unfortunately.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/reuters/2009/08/06/2009-08-06T152646Z_01_N06328040_RTRIDST_0_FOODSTAMPS-USA.html

For the first time in US history there are over 34 million people receiving food stamps.  To put that in perspective, we have roughly a 300 million population, which equates to around 11% of US citizens (loosely defined since about 20 million are NOT citizens) are receiving government food assistance!  We have to ask ourselves, are there REALLY 11% of the population that needs govt. assistance to eat?  Does 1 in 10 people you know have a hard time feeding themselves?

Comments

at 8:02 a.m. on August 7, 2009, swirsky says...
How do *I* get in on this gravy train? Or is this really subsidies for the American Food industry?

 
 

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