Last October the great state of Michigan decided to take it’s toll on the poor of this economically depressed state. By using voodoo economics, they cut the amount of money they figured it would cost to heat your home during the winter of 2007-2008 by $80 a month, even though they estimated at least a 40% increase in actual heating costs. Now by doing this, these same geniuses decided that since it cost less to heat your home, you didn’t need as many food stamps, so they cut them. Even though it actually cost more money for heat and less for food- to pay these bills. At the same time food prices, as well as energy cost have soared. There fore, forcing those who have cut back into a more desperate situation.

Now comes the new year and the great and overly generous increase for those of us who depend on Social Security-needs a name change to something more accurate like Social Insecurity. Again, in the stupidity that is government, the increase you receive is penalized by cutting your food stamp allotment even more than your increase, which by the way, does not even to begin to cover the cost of necessities. As for the increase in food prices, better get used to eating dirt, as they are reduced to doing in some of the poorer countries in the world. That $1.48 I am allotted per day doesn’t cover much. Meat-to expensive and only buy if marked down, you know just before the store throws it out, dairy-no, vegetables-canned mostly, fresh rarely, as to costly, fruit if you are lucky to get it for 99 cents a pound or marked down bananas, but most fruit is $3.98 a pound here. Rice is now off the list as it is over $1.00/lb. here, so that leaves the surplus bread store and pasta, which have gone up due to the wheat cost rising. As for government commodities, the disabled-like myself, are only allowed once every 3 months-Bush has really gutted this- the usually: 1 quart of cooking oil, 2 cans tomato sauce and 1-2 lbs of some type of pasta. If we are lucky maybe a can of some kind of meat, however, Bush has reduced the size of this from about 32 ounces to under 16 ounces. How generous this government is to it’s people.

I just don’t understand how we can spend over 3 BILLION DOLLARS a week in just Iraq, not counting all the other waste this administration seems to think it needs. The United States spends more money on the war than all the other countries in the rest of the world put together. No wonder the country is falling apart. There is nothing left for infrastructure, education, health, and all the other things needed to maintain a healthy, vibrant, growing and improving economy and country.

This had been going on for the last almost 8 years under Bush. Actually I’m surprised they even bothered to take a look down at us.

The squeeze has been on for quite some time. People managed to get by, by cutting back for the longest time, but now it’s gotten to the point where there’s no place to cut back.

Those at the top pulled the rug out from under us with Credit Card Reform, and Bankrupcy reform.

They think they can stop the decline of this country with bread and circuses. But it’s too late for that now.

Thank “shrub and company” for CAFTA and NAFTA and
also for allowing good jobs/benefits to leave this country.