Gasoline for an Iraqui citizen driving an AMERICAN
PICKUP TRUCK-IN IRAQ-IS $1.00 or less per GALLON[according to a friend of mine in the military who JUST GOT HOME]-[for a minute] CUZ HE HAS TO GO BACK AND FIGHT BULLSH*T’s WAR FOR IRAQUI “FREEDOM"-The trucks are GM’s and GMC’s etc- the DUAL TIRED/DUAL CAB BIG ONES we spend $4.00 per gallon to
fill....WHILE EMPEROR BULLSH*T’s BUDDIES GET RICH OFF OF US AND BULLSH*T RAPES OUR COUNTRIES PEOPLE of JOBS AND MONEY.

You say, “the portion of the population receiving food stamps is lower that during Clinton’s first term.” Okay so you go back 15+ years, the population of this country was lower and if the percentage of people getting food stamps now is lower, we still would have more people getting this benefit as there are more people living in America than there were when Clinton first took office, in which he inherited the fall out from 12 years of Republican non existent trickle down economics.

Figures don’t lie, but give liars time to figure.

FIVE-YES FIVE more people I personally know-were LAYED OFF THIER JOBS TODAY!!!!!!One has been at the same job for 11 years-the other 4 are working for TEMPORARY SERVICE AGENCIES and have to give a percentage of the earnings to the temp service for ALLOWING THEM TO WORK....How about...We TAKE ALL BUSH*TS MONEY AND HIS OIL BUDDIES $$$ etc.etc..and FUND THIS COUNTRY-While we are at it...LET’S SEND THE “BULL SHIT BUNCH” SOMEWHERE[ANYWHERE] ELSE…

• “What a joke - all this blather about whether or not we’re in a recession.  Having grown up in the Depression, I know one when I see one.  We are not only in a depression, we are in one that is far more fundamentally damaging than the last.”

Well dale, if it’s a joke, it’s a cruel one, because I know exactly what you’re saying, and I didn’t even grow up in the Depression. (my Grandparents did though, and my parents were born at the tail end of it).

So, even I’ve known that we’ve been in a Depression for a long time, and that it is fundamentally more damaging than the last. If anyone cares to even think about, it’s already lasted far longer than the last, and it’s only just getting going to the point of wiping out a far larger section of the US population.

In other words, there are far more of us now, and we are demographically more spread out. So, despite the advances in communications’ technology, it has taken a while for the ‘effects’ to be FELT by so many. Oh yeah, we’ve KNOWN them, but far too many folks have been suffering more or less silently for several years, until this housing crisis busted the thing wide open.

And of course the old adage has always been in play, “It’s a ‘recession’ when your neighbor loses his/her job, and it’s a ‘DEPRESSION’ when we lose our own!”

Until it became SO MANY OF US, not many folks have paid a whole lot of attention.

Anyway, I like the reminder that water supports from BENEATH, and NOT from above.
Another truism.

Even though America was modeled after the Native Indians, America has lost its way in pursuit of the almighty dollar and greed. Natives always made sure everyone was fed, unlike what is happening today. And no the average person does not get $88-$100 a month for food as claimed in local Michigan newspapers. The amount allowed does not begin to cover a somewhat half healthy diet. The monthly total is more like $1.50 a day or less per person, their income is not enough to pay living expenses. Food prices have gone up drastically and not the low figure of 6% claimed by the government. They use unrealistic manipulated figures that make things seem better that they really are. As Michigan has had money problems thanks to John Englers 12 year reign against the state of Michigan and especially the poor, a true Repukelican, things have not improved much, as he left such a mess for the incoming governor to try to untangle.

Thanks to the corrupt commander in chief the oil companies have helped to raise the price of food and not just a few pennies. Just look at the price of gas for example. Items have gone up a minimum of 10% on a package of lettuce to a 315% increase on a dozen eggs. Milk is out of reach for many, and bread which could be purchased for 69 cents a loaf at some stores is over $2.79 and now there is more talk of flour prices going up. Yet the amount of food stamp allotment has not been increased to keep up with these increases but in many cases been decreased. Like the government PTB think we can still buy the over priced necessities with less money. You can only sqeeze so many cups of tea out of a tea bag, which equals 1 mealtime for many in America today. Shame on this current administration, who continues to boast we are the greatest-richest nation in the world. They have obviously not taken a realistic look at what has happened in the last 7+ years to the American people.

The government then comes up with the brilliant comment that food stamps were not meant for long term as they really know it is insufficient. For the seniors and disabled who rely on this program, it is very hard to maintain anything close to a adequate diet as it has come to the point of there is no where else to cut back on. Even medical dietician experts state it cost about $100 a week for a under?low calorie(means not enough food) well balanced diet for 1 person, so anywhere between $1.00-$1.50 a day or $7.00-$$11.50 a week is a far cry from $100.00 a week, and this does not include the new round of price increases(cheese is now about $10.00 for even the cheapest price which was $2.00 a pound on sale as little as a month ago). Seniors can receive government commodities, greatly cut back by the Bush administration, every month and they still receive more variety than the disabled, who only are allowed commodities once every 3 months and are not allowed fruit, cheese, peanut butter or milk. Usually the disabled get 2 cans of tomato sauce, 1 quart cooking oil, 1 pound of mystery meat(sometimes) and a bag of some type of pasta-every 3 months. Once a year (maybe) 2 cans of some type of vegetable.

America sends better food packages to the rest of the world, who many do not like the type of food we have here and has been reported during the Bush reign, feed the peanut butter to their donkeys. Who’s the jackass now George? Makes you proud to be an American doesn’t it?

Don’t get me wrong, I love my country, but not the current policies and the way this administration has disregarded all the living species on earth as well as the environment, all in the name of more greed for the fat cats.

Me too Fadel. Matter of fact, I’m used to it at this point. Maybe there was an advantage to getting hit early on. By now, I’ve started to adjust.