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The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN

Angelus

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The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN : Political Blind Spot

In spite of the prevailing stereotypes and assumptions about who uses SNAP Food Stamp benefits the most in the United States, the highest usage is not in Compton, Queens, nor the South Side of Chicago. Instead, a city that is 99.22% white and 95% Republican comes in the lead. Owsley County, Kentucky is a community of about 5,000, residents earning the lowest median household income in the country outside of Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Census.

The decline in the profits from coal, tobacco and lumber industries led to a harsh toll being taken on the community.

The majority of food stamps users are white, Republicans living in the south - a large part of the Republican base. Food stamps are a necessary tool for survival in areas where jobs have disappeared. Work requirements for unemployed food stamps recipients, put in place in 1999, require that able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 59, and without dependents, can only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 3-year period unless they are working for at least 20 hours a week or engaged in job training, education, or community service for a certain number of hours each week.

The benefits are intended as short-term assistance for those who can be working, until they can get back on their feet. An increasing number of SNAP households have earnings, which means these are households in which one of the two wage-earners lost their job, or increasing numbers of Americans are in lower-wage jobs or not getting enough hours to cover rising rents, heating, health care costs, and other necessary expenses, including food. 62% of food stamp recipients are either working , disabled, or elderly. Only 18% are able bodied adults with no children.

All of food stamp income is immediately put into circulation in the community - hence cutting food stamps will result in fewer jobs available. Food stamps are structured to encourage people to work more hours - they lose 24 cents for each dollar earned. Overall they are less than 2% of the national budget, all of which goes into support for those living at 130% of the federal poverty rate, and to support stores in the affected areas.

So - now tht a few fcts have been added to the discussion - why are so many here so eager to cut food stamps.
 
Angelus said:
So - now tht a few fcts have been added to the discussion - why are so many here so eager to cut food stamps.
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Because the argument against programs like food stamps was never one based on skin color or party affiliation--except in the empty, race-obsessed minds of liberals.
 
Owsley county isn't a city but it is a dry county. Clearly their race and party affiliation got your attention to their economic conditions. Maybe you could visit and make fun of their white privilege.


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So why is it racist to try and cut food stamps as many imply.
 
Fletch said:
Because the argument against programs like food stamps was never one based on skin color or party affiliation--except in the empty, race-obsessed minds of liberals.
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What does this have to do with liberals, who created the program that's responsible for combating hunger?
 
Doesn't sound like a county I would want to live in. But then again, this does not look like a place where economic opportunities will develop any time soon.
 
Angelus said:
The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN : Political Blind Spot

In spite of the prevailing stereotypes and assumptions about who uses SNAP Food Stamp benefits the most in the United States, the highest usage is not in Compton, Queens, nor the South Side of Chicago. Instead, a city that is 99.22% white and 95% Republican comes in the lead. Owsley County, Kentucky is a community of about 5,000, residents earning the lowest median household income in the country outside of Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Census.

The decline in the profits from coal, tobacco and lumber industries led to a harsh toll being taken on the community.

The majority of food stamps users are white, Republicans living in the south - a large part of the Republican base. Food stamps are a necessary tool for survival in areas where jobs have disappeared. Work requirements for unemployed food stamps recipients, put in place in 1999, require that able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 59, and without dependents, can only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 3-year period unless they are working for at least 20 hours a week or engaged in job training, education, or community service for a certain number of hours each week.

The benefits are intended as short-term assistance for those who can be working, until they can get back on their feet. An increasing number of SNAP households have earnings, which means these are households in which one of the two wage-earners lost their job, or increasing numbers of Americans are in lower-wage jobs or not getting enough hours to cover rising rents, heating, health care costs, and other necessary expenses, including food. 62% of food stamp recipients are either working , disabled, or elderly. Only 18% are able bodied adults with no children.

All of food stamp income is immediately put into circulation in the community - hence cutting food stamps will result in fewer jobs available. Food stamps are structured to encourage people to work more hours - they lose 24 cents for each dollar earned. Overall they are less than 2% of the national budget, all of which goes into support for those living at 130% of the federal poverty rate, and to support stores in the affected areas.

So - now tht a few fcts have been added to the discussion -
why are so many here so eager to cut food stamps.
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Some people just don't have any empathy for people who are struggling to survive.They wouldn't give a blind man 10 cents for a pencil if they had a pocket full of change.
 
You stated that one loses $0.24 (in SNAP benefits?) for each additional (reported) dollar earned. There is also a payroll (FICA) tax of about $0.08 for each additional dollar earned and many SNAP recipients also qualify for other "safety net" assistance which could also be cut as their (reported) earnings increase. After the 20 hour minimum then each additional hour worked (on the books) at the federal MW ($7.25/hour) nets no more than $4.93/hour - why would you expect anyone to work "on the books" for less than $5/hour? Anyone with even half a brain would work for only the minimum required 20 hours of reported income, get full safety net benefits and then work to earn as much "off the books" income as possible.
 
Yet the GOP complains the most about black people being on welfare...
 
Angelus said:
The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN : Political Blind Spot

In spite of the prevailing stereotypes and assumptions about who uses SNAP Food Stamp benefits the most in the United States, the highest usage is not in Compton, Queens, nor the South Side of Chicago. Instead, a city that is 99.22% white and 95% Republican comes in the lead. Owsley County, Kentucky is a community of about 5,000, residents earning the lowest median household income in the country outside of Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Census.

The decline in the profits from coal, tobacco and lumber industries led to a harsh toll being taken on the community.

The majority of food stamps users are white, Republicans living in the south - a large part of the Republican base. Food stamps are a necessary tool for survival in areas where jobs have disappeared. Work requirements for unemployed food stamps recipients, put in place in 1999, require that able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 59, and without dependents, can only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 3-year period unless they are working for at least 20 hours a week or engaged in job training, education, or community service for a certain number of hours each week.

The benefits are intended as short-term assistance for those who can be working, until they can get back on their feet. An increasing number of SNAP households have earnings, which means these are households in which one of the two wage-earners lost their job, or increasing numbers of Americans are in lower-wage jobs or not getting enough hours to cover rising rents, heating, health care costs, and other necessary expenses, including food. 62% of food stamp recipients are either working , disabled, or elderly. Only 18% are able bodied adults with no children.

All of food stamp income is immediately put into circulation in the community - hence cutting food stamps will result in fewer jobs available. Food stamps are structured to encourage people to work more hours - they lose 24 cents for each dollar earned. Overall they are less than 2% of the national budget, all of which goes into support for those living at 130% of the federal poverty rate, and to support stores in the affected areas.

So - now tht a few fcts have been added to the discussion - why are so many here so eager to cut food stamps.
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Oh boy, you just hit a Racist Sweet Spot :lamo

They ain't going to take that B-Slap without some retaliation :mrgreen:
 
Angelus said:
The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN : Political Blind Spot

In spite of the prevailing stereotypes and assumptions about who uses SNAP Food Stamp benefits the most in the United States, the highest usage is not in Compton, Queens, nor the South Side of Chicago. Instead, a city that is 99.22% white and 95% Republican comes in the lead. Owsley County, Kentucky is a community of about 5,000, residents earning the lowest median household income in the country outside of Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Census.

The decline in the profits from coal, tobacco and lumber industries led to a harsh toll being taken on the community.

The majority of food stamps users are white, Republicans living in the south - a large part of the Republican base. Food stamps are a necessary tool for survival in areas where jobs have disappeared. Work requirements for unemployed food stamps recipients, put in place in 1999, require that able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 59, and without dependents, can only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 3-year period unless they are working for at least 20 hours a week or engaged in job training, education, or community service for a certain number of hours each week.

The benefits are intended as short-term assistance for those who can be working, until they can get back on their feet. An increasing number of SNAP households have earnings, which means these are households in which one of the two wage-earners lost their job, or increasing numbers of Americans are in lower-wage jobs or not getting enough hours to cover rising rents, heating, health care costs, and other necessary expenses, including food. 62% of food stamp recipients are either working , disabled, or elderly. Only 18% are able bodied adults with no children.

All of food stamp income is immediately put into circulation in the community - hence cutting food stamps will result in fewer jobs available. Food stamps are structured to encourage people to work more hours - they lose 24 cents for each dollar earned. Overall they are less than 2% of the national budget, all of which goes into support for those living at 130% of the federal poverty rate, and to support stores in the affected areas.

So - now tht a few fcts have been added to the discussion - why are so many here so eager to cut food stamps.
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...and they still don't realize that the GOP is ruining their lives.

B..b..but didn't the Right say that only Black folk who voted Democrat had that problem?
 
Cigar said:
Oh boy, you just hit a Racist Sweet Spot :lamo

They ain't going to take that B-Slap without some retaliation :mrgreen:
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I'm fine if they respond with fact. If they respond with spin then they aren't worth talking to anyway.
 
Angelus said:
I'm fine if they respond with fact. If they respond with spin then they aren't worth talking to anyway.
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Your OP is racist crap. No reason to spin that.
 
Angelus said:
The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN : Political Blind Spot

In spite of the prevailing stereotypes and assumptions about who uses SNAP Food Stamp benefits the most in the United States, the highest usage is not in Compton, Queens, nor the South Side of Chicago. Instead, a city that is 99.22% white and 95% Republican comes in the lead. Owsley County, Kentucky is a community of about 5,000, residents earning the lowest median household income in the country outside of Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Census.

The decline in the profits from coal, tobacco and lumber industries led to a harsh toll being taken on the community.

The majority of food stamps users are white, Republicans living in the south - a large part of the Republican base. Food stamps are a necessary tool for survival in areas where jobs have disappeared. Work requirements for unemployed food stamps recipients, put in place in 1999, require that able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 59, and without dependents, can only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 3-year period unless they are working for at least 20 hours a week or engaged in job training, education, or community service for a certain number of hours each week.

The benefits are intended as short-term assistance for those who can be working, until they can get back on their feet. An increasing number of SNAP households have earnings, which means these are households in which one of the two wage-earners lost their job, or increasing numbers of Americans are in lower-wage jobs or not getting enough hours to cover rising rents, heating, health care costs, and other necessary expenses, including food. 62% of food stamp recipients are either working , disabled, or elderly. Only 18% are able bodied adults with no children.

All of food stamp income is immediately put into circulation in the community - hence cutting food stamps will result in fewer jobs available. Food stamps are structured to encourage people to work more hours - they lose 24 cents for each dollar earned. Overall they are less than 2% of the national budget, all of which goes into support for those living at 130% of the federal poverty rate, and to support stores in the affected areas.

So - now tht a few fcts have been added to the discussion - why are so many here so eager to cut food stamps.
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I cant tell for certain but it seems you are trying to make poverty a race issue. Is that correct?
 
Angelus said:
How is it racist?
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Racists believe racist conclusions drawn from race-based stats are "facts". But if someone mentions stats about white people, that's racist.

Oh, and white supremacists aren't racist, they're racialists. But the NAACP is racist.
 
Angelus said:
The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN : Political Blind Spot

In spite of the prevailing stereotypes and assumptions about who uses SNAP Food Stamp benefits the most in the United States, the highest usage is not in Compton, Queens, nor the South Side of Chicago. Instead, a city that is 99.22% white and 95% Republican comes in the lead. Owsley County, Kentucky is a community of about 5,000, residents earning the lowest median household income in the country outside of Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Census.

The decline in the profits from coal, tobacco and lumber industries led to a harsh toll being taken on the community.

The majority of food stamps users are white, Republicans living in the south - a large part of the Republican base. Food stamps are a necessary tool for survival in areas where jobs have disappeared. Work requirements for unemployed food stamps recipients, put in place in 1999, require that able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 59, and without dependents, can only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 3-year period unless they are working for at least 20 hours a week or engaged in job training, education, or community service for a certain number of hours each week.

The benefits are intended as short-term assistance for those who can be working, until they can get back on their feet. An increasing number of SNAP households have earnings, which means these are households in which one of the two wage-earners lost their job, or increasing numbers of Americans are in lower-wage jobs or not getting enough hours to cover rising rents, heating, health care costs, and other necessary expenses, including food. 62% of food stamp recipients are either working , disabled, or elderly. Only 18% are able bodied adults with no children.

All of food stamp income is immediately put into circulation in the community - hence cutting food stamps will result in fewer jobs available. Food stamps are structured to encourage people to work more hours - they lose 24 cents for each dollar earned. Overall they are less than 2% of the national budget, all of which goes into support for those living at 130% of the federal poverty rate, and to support stores in the affected areas.

So - now tht a few fcts have been added to the discussion - why are so many here so eager to cut food stamps.
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This is some kind of sick, twisted satire, right?

Owsley County, Kentucky is a community of about 5,000,
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