I have alcohol, cigarettes and lottery tickets that I will trade for your food stamps.

Dumb Lazy Idiot (unregistered) wrote in #16 Jeremy (unregistered) wrote in #15   thank you for taking them time to give a educated and polite response, I sincerely appreciate it, it is very refreshing. I do agree that the working poor should benefit from this, but the problem in this matter is not the bankers, it is the working class citizens who do make plenty and cheat the system, ultimately and literally taking the food out of someone else's mouth who truly deserves it. If those people did not cheat the system, it wouldn't go to bankers, it would go to the needy.  Greed is no good. Buying, selling, trading is good for the economy, but not greed. There was a time that the owners of companies shared their wealth all the way down to the lowest employee. The ones who did well, shared, and in turn allowed those people to buy, and the process repeated. Now with this corporate greed, more goes into the pocket of one opposed to many and that is crippling the system. I also agree that RT likes is readers to correct the stories, but I believe in this story it was their intention to make it appear as though 42 million Americans were dependant on food assistance in order to eat this thanksgiving, and that number is far from true.    And you are right, more corporations are taking the government welfare in dollars than all the citizens combined. They take their bailouts and big bonuses while pleading their cases to the courts flying in private jets arriving in limousine. It is a backwards society, and if they do not straighten up the mess they made (government, corporations, and bankers) it will fall, and then they will know what it is like to suffer, to go hungry, or wonder how to survive. Lucky for me, I am not dependant on wealth, I will survive if the whole thing comes crashing down on their heads.

Jeremy (unregistered) wrote in #15
But as I stated, more commonly people are collecting that don't, such as those working for cash, not claiming the wages, and making it appear on paper that they meet the requirements to qualify for food assistance. ------- -I was not necessarily disagreeing with you; just saying that it is irrelevant to the economy.  More of a police matter.  Food stamps (from the Feds) only increase food company revenue.  If it comes from the states, then it would be a crime against taxpayers; but from what I understand, the SNAP program goes Fed to State to Applicant.  Pulling money from the Feds is actually BENEFICIAL to the economy; whether it's technically theft or not.  Better the benefits going to the working poor than the bankers getting it?=======When speaking about the amount of sales, I was trying to explain that ridiculous amounts of money is being spent while 5% of the population is truly starving. It is a greedy society we live in.---------Greed is good.  The issue is paying workers adequate salaries/wages.  Greed expands the economy.  Without greed, the USA would collapse.====== I was trying to point out that RT was misinterpretting the facts. ---------One of the purposes of commentators is to assist RT with more accurately interpreting the facts in the correct manner.  ======Mor e Americans cheat the system to receive food stamps rather than those who are actually dependant on them. --------I don't know if that's true or not, but I bet a few big corporations take more welfare aid from the gov't, than all the so-called poor food-stamp cheats, combined.