and 90% of black children will receive food stamps before they hit 20.


http://www.usatoday.com/new...02-food-stamps_N.htm

quote Study: Half of U.S. kids will receive food stamps By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, according to a study reported Monday in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Although one in five children rely on food stamps for years, many more live in families who turn to food stamps during a short-term crisis, says author Mark Rank of Washington University in St. Louis. He analyzed 30 years of data from the University of Michigan's Panel Study of Income Dynamics survey. "This is what children can expect over a period of time, not just during a recession," Rank says. "It shows that the period of childhood, rather than a period of safety and security, is really a time, for a lot of kids, of economic turmoil and risk." Rank says his study, the first of its kind, may underestimate how many families struggle with grocery bills. Only about 67% of people who are eligible for food stamps actually receive them, the Department of Agriculture says. Good nutrition in childhood is crucial, doctors say. Nutritional programs such as food stamps — officially known as the USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — improve children's health and help them do better in school, says James Weill of the advocacy group Food Research and Action Center, who wasn't involved in the new study. More than 35.8 million Americans used food stamps in July — nearly 6.8 million more than a year earlier, Weill's group says. About half of food stamp recipients are children, Rank says. "There is a large pool of people who are poor or who are living close to poverty at any given time," Weill says. "People don't like talking about it. They don't tell their neighbors, 'I was on food stamps 10 years ago.' " Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank, says the study design and survey data are solid. But he says the findings are neither surprising nor troubling. "That's effectively like saying that at some point in a 20-year period, a parent would be unemployed for a month or so," Rector says. "There's no evidence that even consistent poverty in the U.S. produces a nutritional risk," he says, noting that rich and poor children tend to have about the same intake of protein, vitamins and minerals.

hmmm, I noticed people who get these benefits are buying better food than am willing to purchase. We also have a program for Women, Infants, and Children, here in MI. At least that program is targeted towards the specific group.

J.

quote Half of US Kids Will Recieve Food Stamps

Sounds to me like about half of US parents shouldn't be having kids then. WTF do people pop out kids now, and worry about feeding and clothing them later ?

While there is a tendency for everyone to blame the "victim" - it's important wonder why it got this serious. The middle class is being wiped out through the Fed printing money like there's no tomorrow, ironically to pay for programs like Food Stamps...

quote Originally posted by IEatRice: While there is a tendency for everyone to blame the "victim" - it's important wonder why it got this serious. The middle class is being wiped out through the Fed printing money like there's no tomorrow, ironically to pay for programs like Food Stamps...

But WHY is the Fed printing money? That's the issue that must be addressed first. Printing money is merely the symptom.

This is one of the inherent problems with entitlement programs. People that don't or won't earn their own way learn to use the system and leach off of those that do.
Such is the way of most socialistic agendas until they break down under the weight or burden they put onto themselves.
We are living in an historic time period. We are witnessing the demise of a great nation. Though there are many reasons, you can thank a Liberal for hurrying it along.

Ron

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My oldest son was born one month after I graduated high school. For a while things were extremely difficult and we went on food stamps for a while. We had been put on the program for 6 months, but after 3 I was making enough money and had rearranged things so that we could afford to buy our own food. We still had 3 months of food stamps left but stopped going to SS to pick them up. I don't mind giving people a hand as long as the goal is to become self sufficient again.

I just plane don't mind my tax money going to feed people. Really, what do you think is the alternative.

I will say that from what I hear I think they get too much but there are hundreds of places I would cut spending before I even considered letting people go hungry. There it is, my liberal side showing it's ugly face for all to see.

quote Originally posted by fierobear: But WHY is the Fed printing money? That's the issue that must be addressed first. Printing money is merely the symptom.

It's not a symptom, it's the reason. They were given the power to do it. So why wouldn't they?

quote Originally posted by Chump: *snip* I don't mind giving people a hand as long as the goal is to become self sufficient again.

Agreed. That was the original point of programs like food stamps. Unfortunately, all of the leeches like to huddle around them and suck them dry, which is why many social programs in the United States desperately need reform.

quote Originally posted by Red88FF: I just plane don't mind my tax money going to feed people. Really, what do you think is the alternative. I will say that from what I hear I think they get too much but there are hundreds of places I would cut spending before I even considered letting people go hungry. There it is, my liberal side showing it's ugly face for all to see.

I would agree with your position if, those people were trying to get themselves out of the position they are in. But, most aren't. Yeah, that's an opinion but, I know several families that have always survived off of entitlement programs and will as long as those programs allow them to leach.

I have a friend that lives in the country, he has an entitlement programs for stray cats. He feeds them just enough to keep them looking for mice around his barns. They are always fed some but, not enough to make them happy/comfortable or fat. If they wish to survive and benefit from his good nature, they must earn their keep. Apply that however you wish.

Ron

Don't forget the fraud and waste with these programs. People are willing to "sell" their food stamps for cash.

J.

quote Originally posted by D B Cooper: Sounds to me like about half of US parents shouldn't be having kids then. WTF do people pop out kids now, and worry about feeding and clothing them later ?

Birth control is expensive (or forbidden due to faith)... Abortions are expensive.. Kids are expensive... but hey, sex is free!

quote Originally posted by jaskispyder: Don't forget the fraud and waste with these programs. People are willing to "sell" their food stamps for cash. J.

Yes, something does need to be done about that! As said, they get too much.

Ron, I like the hungry cat analogy

On a big picture level, we have the fattest poor people in history.

On an individual level, it makes me sad. But there IS no way and there never will be a way to get the benefits down where most of us are happy to provide them--to the children.

On a big picture level, poverty is NOT the biggest problem for these children. It is the TERRIBLE PARENTING. You really can't call it that.


Regarding the statistics, if 90% of black children receive food stamps, then what is NORMAL for a black child? For a black child in the U.S., it is ABNORMAL to NOT get food stamps.

Someone has asked me repeatedly what is wrong with socialism in certain elements of our society. This is one of the things. You have multiple generations of black people now who think IT IS NORMAL to receive something from the U.S. government for which they have done no work.

Is that healthy for a country? NINETY PERCENT.


Someone else was trumpeting about all the great socialist presidents in the past. Yeah, great. They planted the seeds that produced this result. That person conveniently forgot to mention LBJ and his "great society".

You know, if you just give poor people a nice place to live, that will raise their self esteem and they will be better people. THAT is the problem. So LBJ and the great society build huge high rise apartment complexes for low income people along I-94 in Chicago. Do you know what we got from those seeds? The hit sitcom Good Times (DYN-O-MITE!), a huge proliferation of welfare mentality people, a violent sub-culture, and the recent need to tear these buildings down to the ground.


So now 90% of black children will receive food stamps. People thought they were helping. Yeah. Good intentions aren't enough.

quote Originally posted by ryan.hess: sex is free!

Where? I have always ended up paying, even if it's over the course of a lifetime, and mentally, I pay.

Brad

Here in Maine, an 18 year old single man living with his parents can get his own food stamps ( credit card thing). I think that is wrong. I do believe in feeding people that are in desperate need but not just handing out food stamps for the lazy. Im aware of many of these 18 year olds that get the food stamp and just hang out all day on the streets ( and NO, they arent looking for a job). Just my .02 cents worth. John