Clearly what these people need is a broad tax cut.

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Your handle is getting more and more apt every day DFT.

she is driving her car A CAR big huge fuel blechign truck to get food stamps i mean whats with that . i guess fuel must be proper cheep in usa, in uk it would probably cost her more in fule to get there than what she would get from food stamps.

also as sum one who has absaluty no money you can very easily live of potato rice, beens, forzen vegetables , bred milk , eggs. i guess it takes some learning to cut down costs when u have had more money to spend, and yeah having kids is going to cost a lot regardless of food , could do what my parents did when i lived in Africa as a baby and use a tea towel as a nappy.

ITS SNOWING EVERYONE

Glad to see the country is doing so much better after Bush sent all our cash over to Iraq.

My company laid off over 4000 within the past few weeks.. shipping jobs offshore to Taiwan among others. The US news media refused to report on it even after I told them about it.

>> ^westy:
she is driving her car A CAR big huge fuel blechign truck to get food stamps i mean whats with that . i guess fuel must be proper cheep in usa, in uk it would probably cost her more in fule to get there than what she would get from food stamps.


Also in most places over here if you don't have a car your going nowhere because places are just to far to walk. There is insufficient mass transit in America, to me I think this is one of our biggest problems.

Very sad, but it's great to see the community coming together like that to help one another. It's true, you cannot count on government - even the richest one in the world.

How much would it suck to be the kid taking home one of those backpacks stuffed with food? When I was young, poor kids were easy targets. Free lunches were a reason to ridicule. Now, can you imagine the torment? And those backpacks are probably clearance aisle with pictures of Rugrats or Animaniacs on them which would only further fan the flames of derision.

*Al Jazeera's* Lucy Keating discovers in the US town of *Knoxville in Tennessee.*

Lucy apparently has giant goddamn balls to tell people in Tennessee she's with Al Jazeera.

The common assumption many people had as I was growing up was that "everyone who wants to work, can". Welfare was looked at as something people used to avoid work (not always, but mostly). It always seemed to fit the times, but that appears to be fading.

Sadly, I can't think of how those times can ever return. Even looking past the recession, I can't see how jobs will ever be freely available again (on average, specific areas will differ). Continuing technological advances will slowly eat away at jobs, even though the population is increasing.

I think people will start looking at ideas like Welfare differently as it becomes more apparent that many motivated people can't even find employment in the future, even after the current downturn (however long it lasts).

They really need to start teaching more skills. I mean come on you come out of high school knowing what? Some facts about history some basic math? How can small companies start up these days? How many people really know how to make a shirt or a cabinet without working at some large corporation? And then they have know business skills.

How do you survive in a semi socialist, semi nationalist, semi fascist, semi Marxist...


Scratch that. <because in a democracy peoples political views are free to be expressed>

How do you survive in a Democratic Republic nation whose politicians think throwing fiat monies at the market will make it better.

Simple, find a job, even if it pays low wages. This is the way to supplement what the Uncle Sam hands you.

>> ^StukaFox:
Al Jazeera's Lucy Keating discovers in the US town of Knoxville in Tennessee.
Lucy apparently has giant goddamn balls to tell people in Tennessee she's with Al Jazeera.


Why should someone have to have "giant goddamn balls" to tell someone in Tennessee that she works for one of the world's most reputable international news organizations?

Why should someone have to have "giant goddamn balls" to tell someone in Tennessee that she works for one of the world's most reputable international news organizations?

Probably for the same reason that people thought Obama was muslim because he has a "weird" name... unfortunately.

All these years the nanny staters were complaining Americans are too fat, now they're crying because "they're hungry"?

Gloom-n-doom propaganda...from a Muslimedia outfit, no less.