Subj : Re: Former SEALS Rip Obama To : All From : albert.finney000@gmail.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:20:08 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september ..org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-septemb er.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!b order3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com !nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-fo r-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:10:33 -0500 From: Al Newsgroups: az.politics,dfw.politics,ca.politics,misc.survivalism Subject: Re: Former SEALS Rip Obama Organization: CNN References: <5ode68tfuik42jfg2p4e0u5r8881pfst8q@4ax.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:10:31 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 64 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-QVV22jf9CpPV382BC1Aha9pZNuPrcxl1LRcW47FyHRYuI50sfiphI97aB0BAHXzOyRgbgZ5kwhr lFXY!r9qN9kCD91alIuU/Z8J29M5b8WG8uxCOkSGNPciBGbAj5C9Wv1LVMRj/7Lpib+9YXA0gBlmSzj xB!yI3wjfcXsUnWCBw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3986 Xref: news.eternal-september.org az.politics:2494 dfw.politics:284 ca.politics:5934 misc.survivalism:22944 In article , somebody else made that happen wrote: > On 9/29/2012 12:02 PM, MikeHall@outlook.com wrote: > > Something you don't do > > very well. > > http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Food-stamps-program-gro > wth-out-of-control-3714101.php > > Two-thirds of the Agriculture Department's budget is devoted to welfare > programs. The biggest is food stamps, which is now the nation's > second-largest welfare program after Medicaid. Its inexorable growth > during the past decade is a testament to government's self-generating > expansion. > > About 17 million people received food stamps back in 2000. Some 30 > million received them in 2008. Roughly 46 million people receive them > today. From 1 in 50 Americans on food stamps at the program's national > inception in the 1970s, 1 in 7 Americans are on them now. > > Spending on food stamps doubled between 2001 and 2006, even though > unemployment was low in those years. Even when the economy is projected > to improve in the future, usage of food stamps will remain elevated > above historic norms. Food Stamp Nation is here to stay. > > One of its pillars is so-called categorical eligibility, which means > that if someone is eligible for another welfare program, he is > presumptively eligible for food stamps. In 2000, the Clinton > administration issued regulations saying that merely getting a noncash > welfare benefit could make someone eligible. > > Categorical eligibility effectively wiped out the program's old asset > test (i.e., you couldn't have $30,000 in the bank and get food stamps), > although income limitations still apply. In the Obama stimulus, the work > requirement was suspended, too, and hasn't been restored. The > requirement had discouraged young, able-bodied nonparents from utilizing > the program; there are millions of them on food stamps. > > Newt Gingrich famously calls Barack Obama łthe food-stamp president > > > Read more: > http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Food-stamps-program-gro > wth-out-of-control-3714101.php#ixzz27stIZkJf In 2009, 57 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) with children (under 18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 percent for native households with children. http://www.cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011 That head of lettuce you ay $1 for at Kroger, actually costs you $4, when you factor in the subsidies to the agricultural sector. The benefits are provided by the American people, and it's cradle-to-grave assistance, and the recipients have a one-in-50 chance of becoming a net tax-payer rather than a net tax recipient. Even Europe has figured this can't work for long. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .