When I see the faux journalism like the story below in a liberal rag like Slate, I realize that facts, truth, perspective, and honesty mean nothing to people with an agenda and a story-line to sell. Slate and the pitiful excuse for a journalist decided they were going to write a story detailing the horror of food stamp “cuts” and they sought out a person who fit their sob story. The theme of the story was going to be starving poor people, drastic cuts, and blaming those dreaded Teabaggers for this tragedy. And anyone who wants to believe the drivel in this article will be highly satisfied. It doesn’t matter that the facts do not support the thesis and selecting one person to represent the plight of all 47 million food stamp recipients is the classic methodology of liberals. We should always create a national program or policy based on the circumstances of one person. The multitude of stories about SNAP fraud, the abandoned carts in Wal-Mart when the FSA were going to get caught cheating, and ongoing campaign to sign people up for SNAP when they didn’t have any intention of seeking this assistance aren’t even mentioned. The personal observations by thousands of people about the kinds of food purchased with EBT cards are nothing but racist rants by Tea Partiers according to the liberal MSM.
Whenever the food stamp issue arises emotions and vitriol rule the day. The liberals declare that anyone who wants to control the costs or reduce the number of people on SNAP is an evil person who favors starving old people. The far right wingers think all food stamp recipients are nothing but moochers and too lazy to get a job. I happen to believe the food stamp program is a necessary safety net program and I’m OK with my tax dollars going to fund it. But, here is where I depart from the liberals and their extreme ideology. Food stamps are supposed to provide a bridge for people temporarily down on their luck. During recessions people lose their jobs through no fault of their own. Unemployment compensation and food stamps are supposed to fill the gap until they can get a new job. You just need to review the historical data to see that the number of people on food stamps always rose during recessions and then fell after the recession was over. It happened in the early 1980s recession. It happened in the early 1990s recession. But something has gone awry in the last decade and specifically in the last five years.
www.fns.usda.gov/pd/SNAPsummary.htm
There has been a major entitlement mindset change. Food stamps should not be a lifetime underachievement award. You should not be entitled to food-stamps because you decided to drop-out of high school and you choose not to work or are unemployable based upon your ignorance or appearance. You should not be entitled to food-stamps because you chose to get pregnant for the 4th time by four different baby daddies. Food stamps is a program to help people TEMPORARILY down on their luck through no fault of their own.
In 2007 there were 26 million people on food-stamps, which was lower than the level of 1994. It had been on a steady but slow uptrend since 2000 and had settled around the 26 million level. The annual cost was not an insubstantial $33 billion per year. We then had a massive financial crisis and ensuing recession. The bottom of the crisis/recession occurred in 2009. As one would expect the number of food stamp recipients surged by 7 million to 33 million in 2009 and the expense increased to $54 billion. I had no problem with this expenditure. Then Obama and his Keynesian brethren passed their $800 billion “temporary” stimulus plan. They included $45 billion extra for food-stamps. The economy has been in recovery since 2010 I’m told by Obama and his liberal supporters in the MSM. Food-stamp recipients should have leveled off and begun to fall, since the economy has been recovering.
But a funny (not ha ha) thing happened on the road to recovery. Obama and his minions used the SNAP stimulus funds to advertise and encourage millions to sign up for food-stamps. His plan was hugely successful. He was able to increase the number of people on food-stamps by 14 million since the recession ended. The cost was driven up to $76 billion. Only a highly skeptical person would suggest that this was done to solidify the Democratic voting base. And this brings us to the TRAGIC cuts that will starve millions according to Slate and the rest of the liberal media. The fact that the $5 billion reduction is just the expiration of Obama’s temporary stimulus plan is ignored by the liberal media. It is surely the work of those evil Republicans.
The interview below is quite revealing and tells me everything I need to know about the rag publishing this crap. They lead the story with declaring this as the largest cut in history for SNAP. Sounds horrifying. They wouldn’t want to clarify with some perspective. The reduction will put funding at the level of 2011, which was $42 billion higher than 2007. It is clear in the first answer from Debra, the SNAP recipient has no clue how much she gets per month and how much her cut was. She made it sound like she got a $70 cut, or 30%. If Slate had an ounce of journalistic integrity they would add this chart.
Debra is in a household of two. Her benefit got reduced by $20, not $70. So she has to cut out meat from her diet because her subsidy went down by 67 cents per day? Really? Reading the interview generates a multitude of questions in my mind and clarifies the entitlement mindset for me. Here are a few questions and observations:
- We hear about how little food she is able to buy for herself and her unemployed 21 year old daughter. I’d love to see a picture of these two ladies. I’m going out on a limb here and guessing these two hungry gals are both over 200 pounds.
- Why is Debra a single mom? Where’s the Daddy? Isn’t he responsible for his child?
- The story attempts to convince you they need the food-stamps to survive. Then you find out she is getting a disability check from the VA, getting an SSDI check, getting low income housing assistance, gets Meals on wheels food from her neighbor, and gets food from a food bank. Somehow she gets by on two meals per day. Me too.
- What exactly is her disability? I’m going to go out on a limb and guess “Depression”, or some other non-verifiable illness.
- We eventually get to the money quotes when the interviewer asks about her and her daughter getting jobs.
” Yes, I’ve thought about it, and my daughter is also considering it. But my food stamps, rent, VA compensation, and social security would be affected. I’d have to make a lot of money to overcome all the reductions, something like $15 to $20 an hour.”
“She wants to help and get a job, but it’s a catch-22. I’m on rent assistance, and if she gets a job, my rent goes up and my food stamp money goes down. But she’s got an interview at Target coming up and if it works out that will be an interesting challenge.”
And there you have the entitlement mindset. Debra has no plans to leave SNAP. The entitlement checks give her no incentive to work. Both SNAP and SSDI are supposed to be temporary assistance until the recipient can go back to work. People like Debra and her daughter have been enabled by the government to not work, look for work, or ever lift themselves up out of squalor. They are being paid to become permanent parasites on society. The excuse about jobs not paying enough is bullshit. In the real world, you start at a low level job, you work hard, get raises, move up the ladder, and eventually make enough money to support yourself and pay taxes.
My son is 16 years old. He will have his driver’s license in another month. He wanted a job. He applied at Dunkin Donuts two Sundays ago. They called him in for an interview at 2:45 on the following Wednesday. They saw he was a clean cut kid, didn’t weigh 300 pounds, didn’t have face tattoos or piercings, and hired him on the spot. They gave him his first shift 1 hour later. He worked 25 hours in the next five days, while having full days of school. They only pay $7.25 per hour, plus tips. He made almost $200 in his first week of work. He will make $700 to $800 per month and he has no skills or work experience. His three best friends all have part-time jobs working 20 hours per week. Debra and her daughter somehow think this type of job is beneath them. The thought of starting out as a clerk at Dunkin Donuts, working extra hours by taking other people’s shifts, proving to your manager you deserve a raise or promotion to assistant manager, and eventually managing your own Dunkin Donuts store is inconceivable to people like Debra, with their entitlement mindset. My son is able to get a job earning $700 to $800 per month while getting straight A’s in high school and this liberal rag – Slate – does a story about the horrific impact of a $20 reduction in food-stamps on two Free Shit Army troopers. What a joke the liberal MSM has become.
Never let the facts, truth and reality get in the way of a good liberal media sob story.
Meat Is the First Thing to Go
What it’s like to have your food stamps cut.
By Katy Waldman
Jeez. I go out to lunch for the first time in weeks and the Monkeys do a smack down on wage Slave while I’m chowing down on a Philly Cheesesteak at Cavanaughs.
Well done. You may resume the shit throwing at your leisure. We must improve our product.
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Wage Slave
Go fuck yourself. This isn’t a game, dumbass.
I’m guessing you split outta here with your tail between your legs, back to Facebook and the Yahoo tween chat rooms. Good riddance. We all have anger issues, tough shit.
America’s anger epidemic: why?
NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) –
Some are describing this as “America’s anger epidemic.” And there are a few reasons: uncertainty in the job market and the economy, working long hours — on average about one month more now than they did in the 1970s and with less vacation.
So if it seems like Americans are angrier these days it’s because we are.
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/24039954/americas-anger-epidemic-why
As a Milennial, I can only hold myself responsible and myself only for the inopportune status of my life.
I have spent the last five years running from my true talents, talents that could make me hundreds of thousands, if not, millions of dollars. I have pushed my dreams away by harboring anger for society (whether it was conscious or not) because I wasn’t born into affluent wealth or opportunity. I have refused to change on a day by day basis, to change with consistency. People often dream of change, but yet, even after two or three days of trying, we resort back to our old ways and become comfortable in misery.
That’s how I have been for my entire adult life. I could be wildly successful. And, although, not many Milennials may have the talent in creative arts like I do, there are so many opportunities out there especially in the richest country in the world. There will always be grand opportunity just around the corner in the United States, at least until our currency collapses.
My cousin, a 23 year old graduate of San Luis Obispo, just got employed at google for 100K+ a year. Granted, his Dad is a computer whiz, and helped mentor him for a tech career. But, how did my cousin become so intelligent within his field? He read countless books, and experimented with creating apps and websites. He didn’t bog himself down with drugs, or doubt himself like I have.
I make a fraction of what he does, but there is still hope on my end. I have so much to give, even if our nation does collapse. I will be the first one out there educating our populace as to what happened, and who is to blame. As for now, I truly believe in this mantra:
One day, we all realize that chasing our dreams is the only way to escape a discontent life.
So if you feel like the system’s odds are stacked against you, I beg to differ. Even if you have to work a piece of shit job for years before being capable of chasing your dream, it is all part of the journey to fulfill your heart/instinct/dreams.
@Adminstrator: “I’ll then go for your jugular and reveal the weakness of your argument. If you don’t have thick skin, you’ll be scampering off this blog shortly.”
Why would anyone care to waste their time trying to relate ideas to a lot like yours?
All this tough guy talk – what a bunch of phonies – pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. This type of talk is rampant, typical grade school shit. I hope you impress one another, cause you’re not impressing anyone else.
Wage Slave
Wallow in your bitterness about life being unfair and the evil corporations screwing you over.
You’re are the standard issue idiot who blames everyone else for your failures. Llpoh was dead on. Anyone who wasn’t able to accumulate $1 million after working for decades at white collar jobs either spent too much or was really a dumbass. Which is your excuse?
Blaming others is your M.O.
I had you figured out in 3 seconds.
Why’s everyone knocking on Wage Slave? His first post is largely dead on.
He’s not advocating SNAP. I don’t there’s any members of the “FSA” here, but then again, I would redefine that as anyone taking social security or medicaid or working for the government.
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Admin says, “The millenials do not get to complain about what might happen to them before it happens. We’re in the Fourth Turning. They have to step up and lead the country through the Crisis.”
They do get to complain about the poor economic environment which the the older generations have wrought, and we are wasting keystrokes disparaging them for not working hard enough to match our standard living, which is propped up by control of the game and resources. It’s bad enough to join a Monopoly game in progress, but then have all the established players decide to change the rules and give themselves printed money to front-run them and buy up all assets?
When you say “step up” what do mean? Occuppy Wall street? What can they possibly do?
If anything, their best course of action would be to conserve energy and opt out, and outlast, and squeeze the system for every bit they can get, because that same system has generally destroyed most opportunities for their generation. One can hate SNAP and all handouts and some in particular who they go to, but at this point it’s just Roman bread made with Egyptian wheat passed around to keep system from collapsing.
Maybe some want them to perhaps revolt, but is that fair? Start a new movement or political party? OK, but if so, we had better understand that it might not be the kind of force that respects that faded document and reams of laws used to suppress them (in their minds)….. so would that put us at odds with such a movement?
Admin will get 100 thumbs up for saying the same thing I did. Life is so unfair.
Hey, but there is some consolation – I spotted and abused old Wage Slave first. I have an unmatched ability to spot folks who make excuses to try to cover up their incompetence and stupidity. As I said, I made a career out of ferreting them out and giving them the boot. I called those types anchors – the ship always sails faster if you throw dead wight overboard.
Method Man – you are incorrect. He tried to hide his bullshit – I have already debunked his bullshit about no one getting promoted at Walmart. Walmart employs enormous numbers of folks. A lot are drones. Drones require disproportionate numbers of leaders to function, and lots of rules.
Wage Slaves bullshit was easy to see if you know what to look for, but he covered his tracks from casual observers by preyin on the general loathing of Walmart that most folks have. .
Wage Slave,
I do not come here to impress anyone. I come here to exchange ideas, have some fun and fling some shit. Apparently you left your sense of humor and anything you had left hanging between your legs at the site of your betrayal from the capitalist pigs that run our government and economy. For such a bright guy you just don’t get it. Yes, you may well have been fucked over, read about Admins father-in-law if you want to see the definition of fucked over. You need to move on. Life is not fair, nor will it ever be. You appear to be a bright guy, toughen up and figure it out. Nobody gives a shit about you plight, in fact you have had it quite easy compared to some. Apparently this is not your game, but if you want to play again we will be happy to teach you. Of course at your own risk.
Bob.
A couple of thoughts on this discussion:
1. Not one mention of the REAL culprit – inflation. The Federal Reserves inflationary policies of the last century have continuously devalued our currency to the point where we think it’s just normal for things to cost more as time goes on. Newsflash: IT’S NOT NORMAL!!! It is a stealth tax, a way of devaluing our money without us realizing that we have been robbed. In the 1800’s we had no inflation and we had enormous prosperity and ingenuity. This is THE reason why the millenials today can’t get by on what we could get by on 20 years ago.
20 years ago
Rent – I paid $200 – $300 a month and I lived less than a block from the beach in St. Augustine, FL.
Gas – I commuted 50 miles one way and paid $20 a week in gas, maybe $30 if I took a road trip.
Food – For $100 I could get enough groceries for two weeks, including snacks and extras.
Beer – $5 for a six pack
We should stop fighting amongst ourselves, that is what they want, it is a divide and conquer strategy by the PTB and it is working really well.
People don’t understand that there IS a simple solution, it’s called freedom. Give people freedom to pursue their dreams and you will be amazed how quickly this country could turn it around. Freedom to sell what you want, freedom to ingest what you want, freedom to take risks, freedom to fail.
On another point to all the min wages earners, there are four levels of working.
1. Working for someone else – most people do this.
2. Start your own business and do all the work yourself. Most small business owners do this.
3. Start your own business and have others do the work for you. Nice income if you can get it.
4. Invest and earn a return – like Warren Buffett and others.
I just made $125 being an affiliate for an ecig company. What did I do, I set up a youtube channel (taught myself how to do it two years ago) downloaded the vids from the company V2cigs, uploaded them onto my channel and put in my discount codes. That’s it. Haven’t even looked at the youtube channel in over a year. I have made a total of $1500 in 18 months. It worked so good I did the same thing for another ecig brand, got a check for $200 from them last week.
I am NOT bragging, I am just pointing out to all the min wage earners out there, think outside the box, if you are not happy with your income find ways to supplement it. Is it easy? No, if it was anyone could do it. There are many, many affiliate programs out there, take some time, look into it, think of ways to capitalize on it.
Try to start your own business. You can buy a 24 pack of coke for less than .25 cents a can, go to a concert or downtown and sell them for $1 a piece. Maybe even get a license to do it.
There are many ways to make money, maybe not a whole lot of money but if you are only making $10 an hour, $200 is a nice bonus.
My ecigs youtube channel – http://www.youtube.com/v2cigs1 http://www.youtube.com/greensmoke27
I spent a total of maybe 10 hours setting these two channels up and have made over $2000 in the last two years. It just takes patience and determination.
Also if you think our economy sucks, try moving to Costa Rica for a while or Chile, if you are young and have no kids, what do you have to lose? Don’t speak Spanish, so what, you will learn it much quicker being someplace that speaks it, go online watch some free language videos.
Use your head people, that’s what America is all about.
JJ3 The Liberty Bard http://www.libertybard.blogspot.com
“the ship always sails faster if you throw dead wight overboard”
Something tells me that will someday be a saying by those directing the firing squads… but it may not be us calling the “shots.”
“Use your head people, that’s what America is all about.” ….leaving it?
Good comments otherwise. There still are lots of ways to make a few bucks and be standout fish in the lake…. but my overall view is that the lake is draining now. Economic activity will become bound by energy, and generally diverted ever more to the rich, the primary mechanism being inflation as you mention.
The comments for this thread have had me laughing for a good 10 minutes now… especially Bob and the pics… I was against them at first, but man, they did have me laughing. 🙂
Too bad I missed out on all the fun before Wage Slave packed up his/her tampons and ran off to find some likeminded fudgepackers who will nod and agree with everything… or should I say “got run off”?
The comments remind me of the printer scene in Office Space… with Wage being the printer…
The meandering result of this thread illustrates perfectly why statists hate actual liberty so violently. The price of the freedom to think and say what you want is that you might actually offend someone. God forbid anyone’s feelings are hurt in the process of debating the issues of the day. Apparently some people can hack it, others can’t. Reality always wins.
JJ3 – So if I were to mention the names Panama Hatties or Tradewinds, you’d know exactly what I was talking about, right?
So Billy has pulled the broomstick out of his ass, and now not only likes the pics, but is posting vids and such of his own. What a surprise – a convert!
Now Billy, admit it, you feel like a dickhead for being such a pain early on, don’t you? You are settling right in. I told you to leave the Stucks and AWDs alone, because there are plenty of real assholes about to keep you busy. And looky looky – I was right. Every day a new Wage Slave shows up to provide entertainment.
Hell, Billy, in no time you will be posting pics of people’s mamas, farm animals, and inbred cousins.
Billy is Colma’s alter-ego. Next up: Inflatable Party Sheep and the giant red Amazon dildo for Christmas.
JJ3 – hope you declared that $2000. You gotta pay your fair share.
Your comment about starting a business and getting others to do the work is naive. No one I have ever heard of has done that. People start a business, and do all the work. Then if they are successful they hire one person, and do 80%of the work, and if that goes ok, they hire another and do 70 percent of the work, etc. Finally maybe they get 50 employees and only do 5 or ten percent of the work.
Small business owners are always working – even when others think they are not.
“Hell, Billy, in no time you will be posting pics of people’s mamas, farm animals, and inbred cousins.”
Strangely enough, LLPOH’s mama-cousin also happens to be a farm animal. An ass, I believe.
TPC – you know you should not prod the bear. You will get clawed, bitten, and ultimately crapped out to fertilise the forest. But you know I love you yunguns, and folks like you give me hope for the future.
But do not press your luck. I am real cranky in my old age, and do enjoy booting yutes out of my yard.
Here is a photo of Billy now that he realizes that he was somewhat over-zealous in his initial efforts to roast and toast:
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TPC – my momma was not an ass. She was more like a grizzly. I do not think I have ever seen a more protective momma when her young were threatened.
This is her dealing with a guy that used to bully me:
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Llpoh
“Now Billy, admit it, you feel like a dickhead for being such a pain early on, don’t you?”
Nope… well, maybe a little. I was spoiling for a fight, and I got one… still, poke me with a pointy stick and I’ll turn into a rage-monster.
“TPC – my momma was not an ass. She was more like a grizzly. I do not think I have ever seen a more protective momma when her young were threatened.
This is her dealing with a guy that used to bully me..”
Dude… you got your MOM to fight your battles?
That explains soooo much..
Billy – I never got her to do anything. She was unstoppable.
My general technique was to bite the ever living shit out of bullies. One time I was getting shit kicked out of me by a bully three years older – I was 12 and he around 15 or 16. He had me down beating shit out of me. So I decided, what the hell, and I latched onto his arm with the old ivories. Well, next thing you know I was on top beating the ever living shit out of that fucker. I beat his ass purple while he cried for momma. No other bullies messed with me at that school. They kept a wide berth, for sure.
I learned fighting was not for fun but for winning. Served me well over the years.
Speaking from a Millenial perspective – I have worked the 29 hours a week that both Wage Slave and Calamity have described. I have a feeling that the difference between the two outcomes and perspectives is due perhaps to simple regional differences. We live in a particularly prosperous part of Canada. Things are different. There is oil money in the city. I didn’t fully understand the depths of my generations financial position until my mid-20s. At that point I was working Shift Supervisor at the busiest Starbucks in North America (during the Holiday season).
Some reflections on that time. Good Lord, the Corporation doesn’t give a flying fuck about the pay of its employees. Fancy coffee-slinger baristas make less than McDonalds front line staff in my city. Shfit Supervisors are generally a dollar or two lower than other retail and food service outlets. BUT – and I will echo Admin here – I’ve seen shift supervisors do a good job, put in the time, and become the ASSMAN – assistant manager – and then a year later – admin. On the other hand, I was constantly aware of the glass ceiling that was placed above me. I always had a clueless just-graduated MBA manager-in-training parachuted in that was fucking worthless on the floor. They were generally 4-5 years older, and unwilling to get their hands dirty.
Lessons I learned. Find jobs in places that are the busiest, where a good work ethic is necessary to survive. It will shape and form you. Even the idea of challenging yourself but simply experiencing that kind of work will change you for the better. It doesn’t stop you from being resentful for being paid the same some damn lazy wage slave at a slow store, where you can dick around and text your friend from behind the counter.
I put in the time at the university to get my teaching degree. I am not a liberal, but I have a passion for working with youth. We have the highest rates of anxiety in our youth of the past few generations. (Let me tell you about the anxiety disorders popping up – entirely due to the latchkey style parenting techniques of Boomers and X-ers, in my opinion!) I networked. I worked hard. I learned what best practices meant. I found the right people recruiting and now I pull down above median income.
If I were to speak to fellow Millenials, I would say, don’t be afraid to physically move to the cities and regions where things are prosperous. A bus ticket is all you need to save up for. It’s what happened in the Great Depression. We already understand what it means to live humbly. Perhaps we need to learn more deeply what it means to live with more mobility. Find where people simply need help, and get to work.
When it comes to our generation being heroes, perhaps we are simply waiting for the boomers to die or retire. They have fed us to Moloch, in the tophet, the burning place. We are the fuel upon which they receive their pension check.
Like so many others, the woman in the story is trying to eat like royalty (food prepared by the servants of the pre fab food industry) without the money to throw away on such edibles. Her life and health will be far better if she thinks and acts more like a peasant. Example: luncheon meats and canned vegetables? Not only are they extraordinarily expensive, but they taste like shit and offer virtually no nutrition. The question she has to ask herself is this: how much nutrition do I get with these calories for this price? It will turn her food choices around.
Since she clearly has time, all food must be prepared from scratch from the most basic ingredients–any type of prefab food is expensive and she can’t waste her dollars on such luxuries.
But, let me offer some additional ideas:
–Join a community garden to grow food for her and her daughter and give excess to others less well off. A PhD student in Lake Worth, FL found his garden labor was worth $12 an hour–he priced the exact amount of food grown against the daily grocery store price. It was $22 an hour if he priced it against organic. That would be after tax dollars, I might add. That should make anyone wonder why the idle in their household haven’t already dug up the backyard and planted. Hydroponic reefer of course is the most profitable form of farming, but the drugs laws are too draconian to risk getting caught.
–Volunteer at a senior center, homeless center, etc. She can eat a meal or two there daily–probably prepared by her.
–If she can manage to save a little bit of capital, become a farmers’ market vendor. No other business can be entered with such low capital costs. Sales are in cash, so she can retain her gov. benefits and if she plays her cards right, turn it into a good business and have a far better life once she is able to earn enough to extract herself from government dependency (I swear welfare is priced at precisely the amount it requires to keep one alive, but perpetually miserable).
Yes, I know I’m oversimplifying and making it sound miserably simple. It’s not, but as she moves in the direction I’ve outlined, she will be far better off.
Billy – I never got her to do anything. She was unstoppable.
My general technique was to bite the ever living shit out of bullies. One time I was getting shit kicked out of me by a bully three years older – I was 12 and he around 15 or 16. He had me down beating shit out of me. So I decided, what the hell, and I latched onto his arm with the old ivories. Well, next thing you know I was on top beating the ever living shit out of that fucker. I beat his ass purple while he cried for momma. No other bullies messed with me at that school. They kept a wide berth, for sure.
I learned fighting was not for fun but for winning. Served me well over the years.
I might add, as I age it’s taking longer to get the same effect. It takes considerable more time and effort to bring those fuckers to heel.
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The definition of employment: “to use”. If you are employed, you are being used by those who stand to benefit from your time and labor.
We are all being used as product. Even the SNAP program is sponsored by J.P. Morgan, and the program is run by corporations. Poverty and homelessness is also big business.
Try to look at the whole picture. None of us are doing very well when we are all being used in a cycle of human trafficking by wealthy sociopaths. There are millions who are employed that are lazy, and do very little work in offices all over this country. We are all receiving hand-outs from the same corporations that fund the foodstamp programs. Although, you may be employed (“used”) your check comes from J.P. Morgan, just like welfare recipients. We are all being deceived, divided and exploited by the same people.
My sister and I were “latchkey” kids while growing up as my mother could not afford daycare. But we were spared the anxiety of modern kids because the style of childrearing in the 50s and 60s was far more relaxed, and less pretentious and structured, than now.
We are literally driving our kids INSANE by monitoring and structuring their every activity, never giving them a free moment to relax, to think, to reflect, to imagine. Kids can no longer run loose in their neighborhoods and make new friends themselves- moms arrange “playdates” for their kids, and the kids are expected to somehow mesh with kids who happen to be the offspring of mom’s friends. If your mother is the reserved type who isn’t into constant socializing and “relating”, you are just out of luck and will have no friends to play with.
Every behavior and innocent gesture of the growing child is scrutinized for signs of “disorder” or criminal intent, and kids are being chastised and suspended from school for doing things like chewing a pop-tart into a shape that looks a little like a gun, or for spontaneously hugging another kid, or expressing an opinion considered to be “inappropriate”, while the psychiatric witch-doctor “profession” exerts itself to find new “disorders”.
The poor kids are so nitpicked, fussed over, over-supervised, and over-structured, I wonder how they aren’t all insane from it. Far from not getting enough of their mother’s presence, today’s kids get way, way too much Mommy and WAAAAY too much of adult interference of every type.