Reuters/Yahoo - USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable?

[OmahaBlueDog]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son.

Saucedo, who earns $9.70 an hour for about 26 hours a week and lives with her mother, is one of the many Americans who survive because of government handouts in what has rapidly become a food stamp nation.

Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That's an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses.

At the same time, the cost doubled to reach $68 billion in 2010 -- more than a third of the amount the U.S. government received in corporate income tax last year -- which means the program has started to attract the attention of some Republican lawmakers looking for ways to cut the nation's budget deficit.

Read more at: http://news.yahoo.com/usa-becomes-food-stamp-nation-sustainable-160645036.html

[DJ13]

1. It doesnt have to be sustainable

The numbers would decrease rapidly if our government would formulate a plan to bring jobs back here instead of promoting more free trade agreements that only end up increasing outsourcing.

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. CNN: We're hiring... In China!

These U.S. companies are creating thousands of new jobs in China, as they spread their products to the country's growing middle class.

Read more at: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/news/economy/1108/gallery.china_jobs_american_companies/index.html

:banghead:

[raccoon]

4. Jobs that pay a LIVING wage. nt

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Everything seems to be going according to plan:

After all, nobody said we'd actually LIKE the "Change."

[4_TN_TITANS]

5. WPA + CCC

Some of us have been saying this for years now. For God's sake we HAVE a blueprint for how to get out of this mess.

[zalinda]

6. Obama does not believe that government should create jobs. EOM