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In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps — a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients.

The findings coincide with the latest economic data showing workers' wages and salaries growing at the lowest rate relative to corporate profits in U.S. history.

Economists say having a job may no longer be enough for self-sufficiency in today's economy.

"A low-wage job supplemented with food stamps is becoming more common for the working poor," said Timothy Smeeding, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in income inequality. "Many of the U.S. jobs now being created are low- or minimum-wage — part-time or in areas such as retail or fast food — which means food stamp use will stay high for some time, even after unemployment improves." http://www.chron.com/default/article/The-new-face-of-food-stamps-worki
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In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps — a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients.

The findings coincide with the latest economic data showing workers' wages and salaries growing at the lowest rate relative to corporate profits in U.S. history.

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
What was it that Marie Antoinette said? Something about letting them eat cake?

There is a developing resemblance to the French Revolution. I certainly hope it's NOT coming, La Guillotine did not improve things, but if the ruling class and the rich don't start paying attention to the masses, an uprising in the streets could be coming. And it won't be the one the Tea Baggers and Second Amendment nuts and militia guys are preparing for, where they can toady up and help The Establishment oppress the rioters. If things get bad enough, everything could be swept away in the tide of popular rage.

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
What was it that Marie Antoinette said? Something about letting them eat cake?

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There is a developing resemblance to the French Revolution. I certainly hope it's NOT coming, La Guillotine did not improve things, but if the ruling class and the rich don't start paying attention to the masses, an uprising in the streets could be coming. And it won't be the one the Tea Baggers and Second Amendment nuts and militia guys are preparing for, where they can toady up and help The Establishment oppress the rioters. If things get bad enough, everything could be swept away in the tide of popular rage.

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
What was it that Marie Antoinette said? Something about letting them eat cake?

There is a developing resemblance to the French Revolution. I certainly hope it's NOT coming, La Guillotine did not improve things, but if the ruling class and the rich don't start paying attention to the masses, an uprising in the streets could be coming. And it won't be the one the Tea Baggers and Second Amendment nuts and militia guys are preparing for, where they can toady up and help The Establishment oppress the rioters. If things get bad enough, everything could be swept away in the tide of popular rage.

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Yah, I been seein this impulse for some time now, most people only notice the boil when the bubbles start popping, but having seen the foundations of such discontent for nigh unto a decade now I am actually concerned - I'd like it to not go that way, and things have surprised me before, but if it does imma roll with it, maybe even help it along some, cause what else can ya do ?

And in a dark humor kinda way, it'd be damn funny for those jackboot lickers to realize that the "pathetic liberals" they scorn so much are every bit as well armed, on average more skilled with those arms, far better organized, and OUTNUMBER THEM A THOUSAND TO ONE.
Yeah, that'd be what we call a brick passer moment for them.

Think of it like a reality survival show, okay ?
Two groups of survivors, one all about rabid self interest and competition and survival of the fittest and damn the hindmost, and the other all about cooperation, communication and mutual support....
End of that, you might have a tiny bare handful of half-starved, ill-equipped, paranoid nutbags, versus a full community of people willing to work together in a cause - who you think is gonna win that, hrm ?

Which is why I all but WISH the red-south would friggin secede, and would be happy to evict em, so I could watch em destroy themselves without dragging us down too, and when they blameshift and try to attack us in their mentally unbalanced never-my-fault lunacy after they've destroyed their economy, infrastructure and population, and we got done laughing after mowing down their pathetic forces (cause when did you ever see any of that mindset admit they have no chance, hrm?) we could take the land back and maybe for a time, hopefully forever, be DONE with their fucking insanity.

I might be vicious, I might be a little off the rocker, but most of that perception comes from simply being willing to say the things no one else will dare.

-Frem

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