Record 45.8 million receiving food stamps

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Record 45.8 million receiving food stamps

Published: Aug. 7, 2011 at 2:22 AM

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Alabama, hit by severe storms, pushed the total number of U.S. food stamp recipients to an all-time high of 45.8 million people in May, officials say.

Food stamp use -- officially known as the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- surged in Alabama from 868,813 in April to 1,762,481 in May, contributing to the record 45.8 million receiving food stamps in May, CNN reported. That's about 15 percent of the U.S. population, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials say.

To qualify for food stamps, a person's income cannot exceed $1,174 a month or $14,088 a year -- 130 percent of the national poverty level. The SNAP benefit averaged $133.80 per person and $283.65 per household in May.

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Re: Record 45.8 million receiving food stamps

Obama is throwing away billions of taxpayer dollars on this program. It only creates abuse and laziness. Most of the people on food stamps appear perfectly normal and would have no problem getting a job at McDonalds (or wherever), but there is no incentive to do so when the government is paying all the bills. Maybe Obama should go to the grocery store and donate his millions in book royalties to some of the lazy and entitled people who use food stamps every day. I'm sure that even he would have a change of opinion after seeing these food stamps people in action. On a related note, the unemployment system is no better - just a redistribution to the laziest people in the country. As a registered Democrat, I feel that the direction of the party is currently all wrong - they are only concerned with the greedy Wall Street elite along with those who are lazy and have a sense of entitlement. Everyone else is stuck having to pay for those groups.



 
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markinsac

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AND WHAT STATE HAS THE MOST FOOD-STAMP PEOPLE? TEXAS, HOME OF THAT JOB-CREATOR, RICK PERRY. GEE, IF HE DIDN'T CREATE SO MANY MINIMUM WAGE JOBS, PERHAPS TEXAS WOULDN'T BE NUMBER ONE IN FOOD STAMPS. WAY TO GO, JOB CREATOR!
 
brucefan

brucefan

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Its stimulus and job creating Joe, didnt you get the memo??
 
BLUFFLUSHPRO

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45 million? wow- how do we grow that much food to feed people?

I think the end of the world is comming.
 
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