Reliance on food stamps in order to have enough to eat is at an all time high, to the point where one in four children are dependent on them.
The Obama administration has been pushing to put as many people on food stamps as possible. Not only does this increase the power of government over people, who become so dependant that they dare not bite the hand that feeds them… or at least didn’t used to dare to bite.
A violent brawl erupted recently in East St. Louis in a line at a food stamp office. The propensity of welfare addicts to explode into violent mobs is well known, but that this violence is occurring in what is effectively a modern-day soup line is chilling for many reasons.
Food Stamps, as with much of the welfare out there, does not cure poverty, or lift anyone from it. It simply masks the de facto Depression we are living in under President Obama. In the 1930’s people had to stand in soup lines, wear their clothes until threadbare, and otherwise scrimp and save; the poverty and lack of jobs was obvert and manifest.
Since the current downturn and so-called recovery, the civilian employment, as a percentage of population, had fallen by 5% rapidly; since then, the employment ratio has stayed flat, and been permanently depressed. One must remember that the Great Depression actually had many more “up” years than “down” years, though the growth was tepid and punctuated by massive downturns.
