The 1% have never and will never ever see a food stamp Š Bourgeois democracy
in a nutshell.
The number of people on food stamps indexes the rate at which Pax Americana
is nearing its end
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Datum: torsdag den 14 juni 2012 01.43
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Ämne: Re: Food for thought
Not soon enough. Paul
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:40:47 -0400
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Subject: Food for thought
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In April 2011, 45 million Americans, around 1 in 7, were recieving Food
Stamps. Predictable, perhaps,in a country with a more threadbare (sorry,
'incentivising') social security system than Europeans are accustomed to.
What's more suprising is what you find if you go back in time. In 2003, 22
million were on this programme. Three years before that, 2000, there were
just 17 million Food Stamp recipients (source, the Guardian, 3 November
2003,pp.1-2, 'Long queue at drive-in soup kitchen'). So we've had the
Credit Crunch since ca. 2007, but the biggest economy on the planet has been
busy producing Food Stamp recipients since 2000, at an impressive rate of
one extra recipient per 12 seconds. Even over the 'good times', pre 2007.
How long before everyone, except perhaps Bill Gates, is getting them?
Dr Hillary Shaw
Food and Supply Chain Management Department
Harper Adams University College
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8NB
www.fooddeserts.org
