From Joel Gehrke at the WashingtonExaminer.com:
More Americans rely on their families for assistance than the government, so federal officials have undertaken an effort to help people to apply for federal assistance.
“Given that only 15 percent of you turn to government assistance in tough times, we want to make sure you know about benefits that could help you,” USA.gov announced today. The ”government made easy’ website has created a “help for difficult financial times” page for people to learn more about the programs.
The government got that statistic from a poll asking Americans what helps them the most during tough times. Here are the results:
- Savings 44%
- Family 21%
- Credit cards/loans 20%
- Government assistance 15%
“Government assistance comes in different forms—from unemployment checks and food assistance to credit counseling and medical treatment,” USA.gov reminded readers.
Absolutely wonderful! But wait — !
Fornicalia has gotten into the mix as well — with CalFresh. Fornicalia determined that: “The CalFresh Program, formerly known as Food Stamps and federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), can add to your food budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table. The program issues monthly electronic benefits that can be used to buy most foods at many markets and food stores.”
Translated: the word “foodstamps” sounds too harsh and judgmental. It’s time for another kitten-couched euphemism that further screws over Fornicalia taxpayers and enables even more parasitical, obese and tattooed Deadlings to sup from the trough of Free Cheese.
Look at ALL the Fornicalia application forms in every language imaginable:
Daim Ntawv Thov Nyiaj Muas Noj
Анкета для запроса талонов на питание
Solicitud para beneficios de estampillas para comida
Đơn Xin Trợ Cấp Phiếu Thực Phẩm
Did Fornicalia miss even one language? If so, then it’s time to sue!
Here are the happy CalFresh families:
Here is the reality:
I don’t think I can make things more plain that this.
I ask: in your city, your county, your larger urban areas — have you ever seen one or more skeletal-like figures begging for food in the streets, at the intersections, in the hoods, on their steps — and have you read, in the Obits of your papers — of people dying due to dehydration, lack of food, due to poverty — ?
I didn’t think so.
BZ
Government bankruptcy must be just over the horizon.
Knowing, of course, AOL, that they’ll simply keep on printing money until the money is only valuable for its ability to wipes one’s arshole or keep one warm in winter when burned.
BZ
Even though they may have changed the name it is still Food Stamps and government assistance.
For those who truly need it such as our veterans and the true disabled, by all means they have to have it, but to those that are plain lazy, drunk or too high to work, cut them off now!
I have never, EVER, had a problem with taxpayer dollars for the truly disabled, the physically disabled. But, now, a full ONE-THIRD, for example, of social security parasites are on the rolls for “mental-stress related” issues.
Are you friggin’ KIDDING me?
You should WORK for your money, you should be TESTED for drugs and alcohol for your money, and there should be TIME LIMITS for the largesse you expect.
BZ
You’re a hater and a loser.
And I’m afraid you won’t be around here much any more. You contribute nothing to the conversation — but, truly, you ARE a Prototypical Leftist. You predicate your beliefs but upon emotions. Go back to cake-baking and brow-knitting. Go back to your drugs and purple skies. Then start writing — if you want to actually put your checkbook where your ass is located — additional checks to the IRS in order to enable all of your pie-in-the-sky Utopian principles.
Oh, that’s right; first you’d have to actually have a JOB and not live in your parents’ basement with Powder Puff Girls posters taped on the cement walls.
BZ
And, LB, your mommy’s calling — she says your cereal is ready upstairs. She’s filled your sippy-cup too.
BZ
Nope, obesity and alcoholism maybe, but not starving… Just sayin…
And “sayin’ ” with knowledgeable authority, as well.
BZ
Wait – so all I have to do is return to my Calihomeland, and the guvamint will throw food at me? Kewl! Will they send me a plane ticket, too? : D
In truth, they’ll not only send you a plane ticket but cover the cost of your luggage as well.
As long as you’re Mexican.
You Mexican?
Oooops — thought not.
BZ
Oh… I prefer fish and chicken, no red meat please, and I like my avocados nice and plump. Almond milk instead of reg’lar; French roast on the coffee; and extra-crispy dried seaweed, and lots of nuts. And Jack Daniels. Just to give a heads-up.
If you’re anything but what you are, they would also turn down your bed at night and leave a nice mint on the pillow.
I always historically chose vodka. Haven’t investigated Jack Daniels. My taste runs to Absolut and Stolichnaya and Ketel One.
BZ