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then "those" who state with great clarity and factual data that the typical welfare / food stamp recipient(s) are:
white
rural
poor
Are all delusional?
you must be one of the misguided souls who thinks the above three categories are:
brown skinned
urban
poor
they arent delusional, they are just ignorant in the ways that the census people keep tabs on whos who and how people from latin american countries are often counted as caucasion/white.
you must be one of the misguided souls who assumes anyone who is critical of welfare benefits is racist.
Wow...lot's of misconceptions in this thread. My BF applied for food stamps last month. I printed out his application (he did it online...but I had to print it out from my work computer) and went with him to the welfare office. He had to bring his birth certificate; and he is a US-born, White male.
Also something does not jibe about the article's statistics. It states that 70% of households receiving foodstamps have no earned income. Yet this article states that 40% of food stamp recipients live in a household where someone is earning a wage. It's a 10% margin of error (which for the mathematically challenged, is not too reliable...if the sampled population is larger than 100).
Also all the lamenting about poor people having a higher birthrate is also misguided. Here is a quote from this article:
Quote:
Interestingly, as families begin to have more children, expenditures for each child begin to decrease. Families that have three or more children spend an average of 22% less on each child. The more kids, the more likely they will share bedrooms and clothing, food can be purchased in more economical packages and schooling is sometimes offered at a discount.
Also when you are comparing poor people to working & higher class people, poor people are more likely to stay at home with their kids and/or rely on family for childcare. The kids double up in bedrooms and use hand-me-downs for clothes.
I'm not going to bash the entire food stamp program because of a small group of illegals utilizing the benefits. There is a lot more good points about the program than bad...that's for sure!
Also all the lamenting about poor people having a higher birthrate is also misguided. Here is a quote from this article:
It is NOT misguided. Those receiving public assistance have a birth rate 3 times that of everyone else. They are outbreeding those who pay to support them by a rate of 3 to 1.
And if it costs so much less to have additional children, why do they keep getting more welfare program benefits for each additional child they bear?
It is NOT misguided. Those receiving public assistance have a birth rate 3 times that of everyone else. They are outbreeding those who pay to support them by a rate of 3 to 1.
And if it costs so much less to have additional children, why do they keep getting more welfare program benefits for each additional child they bear?
Look how darn easy we make it for these people no. Some of these people keep popping out babies like pop-tarts, it will never end this cycle, because we make it easy on them.
I think these food stamp usage numbers are too low, because of transportation cost to get this service to the bulk of America which is rural involve very high costs. Many rural communities lack public transportation. If that was eliminated then I think the numbers would be justified.
I think the program will continue but it will require more involvement of the applicant such as being tested for drugs, report ownership of firearms, criminal background etc. However because the cost of transportation is applied to food the trade off seems less so either the numbers here will remain unchanged because in many rural communities they would rather keep their firearms than give them up for food stamps. Food cost continue to climb but the program may not be able to adjust to the cost of it leaving the applicant in a 'one' can or 'one' bowl of whatever a day instead of a full government recommendation of a breakfast, lunch, and dinner per day.
We dug our hole to be buried in it.
That's my thoughts on this matter.
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