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Sad: More Americans Than Ever Use Food Stamps for Thanksgiving

coveyrise Wrote: Nov 21, 2012 7:40 AM
It's amusing to see how people on here like Raul actually think they're better off when the Government offers to do more for them. Across the country there is an increasing number of these mindless followers of the Pied Piper who are duped into believing that living off the crumbs thrown to them by Government is better than working to make an entrepreneur successful so they can ride the same elevator to the top floor. Several Walmart workers intend to picket this Friday to show their dissatisfaction with a company that provides them with a job and benefits while ignoring the fact that 80% of Walmart's management came from the hourly paid workforce.
Dot32 Wrote: Nov 21, 2012 7:17 PM
It is all the politics of envy! It sickens me that people think the taxpayers owe them something!

Just another one of the myriad blessings many of us can be grateful for this Thursday: a Thanksgiving turkey. A new study from the Sunlight Foundation indicates that, thanks to economic hardship, more Americans than ever will be forced to set their Thanksgiving tables using food stamps -- hardly a budget that allows for an opulant feast on a day centered around dinner.

The Food Stamp Challenge, which challenges higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on food stamps has a budget of about $1.25 per meal. In other...

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