Why Is Poverty Worse Than Ever?

Bread Lines vs. Foodstamps (Infographic)

During the Great Depression, "bread-lines" were an unfortunate but common sight as millions of Americans teetered ot the edge of starvation.

If today's SNAP benefit (foodstamps) was measured as a bread-line, there would be a line 7 miles long at every single Wal-Mart in America. Ironically enough, the heirs to the WalMart fortune hold more wealth than 42% of Americans combined. 

It is also important to understand that the enormous number of people on foodstamps has nothing to do with personal choices, bad habits, laziness, or other stereotypes, but rather is a product of poor economic policy. Just like the bread lines of the Great Depression were not filled with people who simply "chose" not to work, what is happening today is an emergency, but one that is less seen, slipped under the rug with rhetoric and plastic cards. The truth is, that even for many people who are lucky enough to find a job at all today, they still cannot afford to buy food for their families. By some accounts, as many as 80% of Wal-Mart employees themselves are on foodstamps.

There are solutions though. First, create a PRACTICAL MINIMUM WAGE. Second, end the vampiric economic policy of the Federal Reserve Bank. It's really that basic.

To see the high-resolution original presentation of the following graphics, click HERE and HERE

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The U.S. is the Most Overworked Developed Nation in the World – When do we Draw the Line?

Poverty is Big Business

One in Three Americans Face Poverty, Latest Census Info Shows

Pictorial - Myth Vs. Reality of Life On Welfare





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Wanna Eat? Take the Mark of the Beast!

I try not to get too far off base into conspiracy land here on this blog. We have enough very real problems dealing with poverty, without worrying about thinking that everyone really is out to get us, literally. But many folks do turn to God and religion in their time of need, so in that sense, I thought that perhaps readers here might be interested in the darker religious tones of this piece. But even if you don't really want to get too far off base, and would prefer to stay grounded, dealing more in tangibles than prophecy, you should still find this information interesting, and alarming.

If you doubt that this is happening, or worse yet, think it's actually a good idea, I suggest you read the material in the few links I will provide below.

Here is what the video creator had to say in his synopsis:

I was sent this video by Courageous Nerds..

Uploaded by CourageousNerdz on Nov 4, 2011

I dare you to go to the WIC website, or the EBT website or the SNAP/Food stamp website or the Grocery Manufacturers of america,the food and drug admins, etc. etc. Go to there search field browser and type in RFID,or biometric and WATCH what pops up. I also have Government Links to show the validity of this video.

Go Google this entire sentence..... "Planned Nationwide Usage of the biometric information sharing capability by fiscal year 2009-2013" As well as these below.

-Go Google "The human robot operating system" PDF (Super Smoking Gun Proof)

Go to FMI Dot Org. Type 2011 RFID in the search field

Go to www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ebt/ AND TYPE IN 2011 BIOMETRIC OR RFID

Go to youtube and type in "Biometric ID Cards Replace Cash mark of the beast"

Go to youtube and type in
" louisana bans cash"

Go Google "Biometrics dot gov Fingerprint recognition"

I have much more Smokiing gun proof but I'll reveal it later. I have other videos to make .

Marking the 'Beasts'

Why drug testing of welfare recipients is a bad idea

Prison Labor Re-Education Camps For Welfare Recipients?

Recipients of unemployment benefits to work again cleaning subways

Poverty Level at Highest Point Ever Recorded

Do you qualify for foodstamps?

Will you submit? Will you take the Mark of the Beast?

Food Stamp Record Up to 45.8 Mil

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

The number of Americans using the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -- more commonly referred to as food stamps -- shot to an all-time high of 45.8 million in May, the USDA reported. That's up 12% from a year ago, and 34% higher than two years ago.

The program provides monthly benefits to low-income individuals and families, which they can use at stores that accept SNAP benefits.

To qualify for food stamps, an individual's income can't exceed $1,174 a month or $14,088 a year -- an amount that is 130% of the national poverty level.

full article at link:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/04/pf/food_stamps_record_high/index.htm?iid=HP_River

Also check out a video here...

Poverty is Big Business

Hospital patients are dumped at homeless shelter

Haven for Hope had just opened its men's dorm in April when the first discharged patient showed up.

It was evening at the homeless center and Haven CEO George Block was walking along the sidewalk when he spied a woman getting out of a taxi. She was in a hospital gown and pushing an IV pole, with the intravenous line still attached to her.

“I asked the taxi driver what he was doing,” Block recalled. “He said he had a note saying to drop the woman off at this address. The women's dorms weren't even open yet, so we had no place to put her. We sent her back to the hospital.”

Since then, the practice of “medical dumping” — in which hospitals try to transfer their still-sick homeless patients to homeless shelters or other hospitals — has increased at Haven, officials allege.

Story continues at link:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Hospital-patients-are-dumped-at-Haven-780290.php

Wal-Mart says their customers are 'running out of money'

I used to be part of the once a month crowd. I would go to Walmart and stock up on all my canned and dry goods, lots of frozen stuff too. Then throughout the month I would hit my local supermarket for fresh meats and produce. That changed for me this past winter. Suddenly, I saw a big rise in prices, and many of the products I used were no longer there. It was very sudden too. I mean from one month to the next. It only took me one visit and I decided I could do better stretching my limited cash and newly awarded allotment of foodstamps at my two local supermarkets, as long as I shopped with the sale flyer in hand. I haven't been back to Walmart since for groceries.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Wal-Mart's core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried, CEO Mike Duke said Wednesday.

"We're seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure," Duke said at an event in New York. "There's no doubt that rising fuel prices are having an impact."

Wal-Mart shoppers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck, typically shop in bulk at the beginning of the month when their paychecks come in.

Lately, they're "running out of money" at a faster clip, he said.

"Purchases are really dropping off by the end of the month even more than last year," Duke said. "This end-of-month [purchases] cycle is growing to be a concern.

Full article from CNN Money at link:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/27/news/companies/walmart_ceo_consumers_under_pressure/index.htm

Feminism Was Created To Destabilize Society

Short video, but stick to it. The numbers that AJ tossed out there toward the end blew my mind...

Cambell's condensed soups

Once a staple of frugal of cooking... has nearly doubled in price over the last year or so. I used to be able to get these cans of soup, great for a light meal or as a "sauce" to make all sorts of bakes and casseroles, for less then a dollar per can. Tonight, I bought six cans of green pea soup for grandma at a cost of 3 for $5, or $1.66 a can!