Maybe rather than food stamps we can hand out health stamps. you can get free access to a health plant or give you a break for a treadmill or sationaery bike. America is the fattest nation on earth! Or maybe McDonalds and Burger King will be allowed to take food stamps and we can push things the other way.
BeccaMorn
· 1 year ago
What is also tragic is the majority of these people also lack access to affordable medical and dental care.
And that CEO crowd -- as well as all the congress-critters who don't do anything to help Americans -- continue to have their platinum-plated all-inclusive no-deductable health plans. They never have to worry about medical-bill caused bankruptcy. Or denied care.
Worse, the political establishment continue to push 'insurance' as the answer. As if those who are totally broke can afford it.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
If you delete food and energy prices, the economy looks strong.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Everyone knows gas prices are eroding the amount of money people have for food, utilities and housing, the Big 3 of survival these days. Even living on SS, I don't qualify for food stamps, so new clothes, shoes, etc. are always put on the back burner, as well as just plain wearing out appliances and furniture, for which there is no money. The top income bracket for food stamps for a family of 4 is $28K per year, and that's for the minimum amt of help. I often wonder how people making that even survive, with inflation the way it is--even if 2 adults are working, that's $56K a year before taxes, and people making that are struggling. Yes, everything is increasing in price, because everything gets transported by truck--and the number of independent truckers is falling as well, since diesel is over $4/gal everywhere.
So, now Dell is laying off workers in its Texas plant that makes desktops, and better jobs are being lost all over the US, affecting the "middle class" even more. Some of these folks will find out that they, too, will be standing in food bank lines since they might not qualify for food stamps, like the woman I saw in CA who lost her $70K job and whose husband left her with the kids and an expensive house to pay for (she says her unemployment only covers the mortgage). I imagine she will soon have to start sellilng off her assets, like many people are reduced to doing.
Sure, there are great bargains out there, but who has the discretionary income? Good point about medical care, BeccaMorn...sadly, many have gone without for years now, including me, until Medicare was available.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I hope somebody's getting those people registered to vote.
jr
· 1 year ago
this is free trade in action
rocky
· 1 year ago
i get 760 bux a month and don't qualify for foodstamps, i'd like to know how other people do.
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America is the fattest nation on earth!
Or maybe McDonalds and Burger King will be allowed to take food stamps and we can push things the other way.
And that CEO crowd -- as well as all the congress-critters who don't do anything to help Americans -- continue to have their platinum-plated all-inclusive no-deductable health plans. They never have to worry about medical-bill caused bankruptcy. Or denied care.
Worse, the political establishment continue to push 'insurance' as the answer. As if those who are totally broke can afford it.
So, now Dell is laying off workers in its Texas plant that makes desktops, and better jobs are being lost all over the US, affecting the "middle class" even more. Some of these folks will find out that they, too, will be standing in food bank lines since they might not qualify for food stamps, like the woman I saw in CA who lost her $70K job and whose husband left her with the kids and an expensive house to pay for (she says her unemployment only covers the mortgage). I imagine she will soon have to start sellilng off her assets, like many people are reduced to doing.
Sure, there are great bargains out there, but who has the discretionary income? Good point about medical care, BeccaMorn...sadly, many have gone without for years now, including me, until Medicare was available.