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Posted by: Darrell Castle
January 06, 2010
Topic: Bankruptcy
The New York Times as reported in a front page story in the Sunday, January 3, 2010 edition has discovered that there are a lot of really poor people out there in America and that list is growing every day. "Food stamp use is at a record high and surging by the day." The fastest growing subgroup consists of about six million people who have no income at all except food stamps. This information is revealed in federal audits; that they are unemployed and receiving no cash aid, no welfare, no unemployment insurance, no pension, no child support or disability pay.
People cope with this situation the best that they can according to the Times. Some are displaced strivers, some sleep in homeless shelters, some have under the table jobs, some live with relatives, and some get non-cash help like rent subsidized apartments. Many people use food stamps only for brief periods of time between jobs and others subsist on food stamps for many months. One in eight Americans now receives food stamps and one in four children. This is an outrageous situation that is simply not justifiable in this country. There is no excuse for it whatsoever and it should be addressed immediately. Poverty, misery, and despair spread across the land while we squander our resources and the fruits of our labor bailing out banks and Wall Street. Good paying jobs could return to America and we could start making things that people want to buy once again. To pull out of this economic death spin we will have to concentrate on making things not buying things. Production is not consuming things it is making things. Should we as a people persist in this "jobless recovery" we will soon run out of foreign credit to pay for the relief people need to keep from starving. These things taken together indicate that we have abandoned the moral authority to lead.
Well, times are hard for people with millions living on nothing but food stamps and growing more and more dependent on government each day and there is no end in sight. Jobs are not safe in the future no matter how safe they may look today. Make plans to survive for periods when you have no work. Get out of debt as quickly as possible.
