Food Stamp Millionaire

LadyJazzer wrote: Of course, you DO realize the "gub'mint" in this case is the State of Michigan... NOT the Feds...?

Oh, but then it would waste a good "Obama bad" rant...

I think this sleazebag is despicable... But it's up to Michigan to close the loophole.

$2 million lottery winner still gets food stamps
'If you're going to ... try to make me feel bad, you aren't going to do it,' he says

DETROIT — A Michigan Lottery $2 million jackpot winner from last year is eligible and collecting some food stamp assistance under a loophole state officials have been working for months to close.

Hey genius, maybe try reading the the whole thread. Nobody is blaming Obama here...you are stuck in one gear, try shifting once in a while.

So:

BearMtnHIB wrote: What I mean by that is getting the Federal government out of it - and the state government too for that matter.

So, somehow, "the Federal Government" (which has nothing to do with this Food Stamp Millionaire) doesn't have anything to do with Obama? Well, good, dipsh*t. That's the first time that I can remember that blaming something on "the Federal Government" DIDN'T mean that it's Obama's fault. There's hope for you guys yet.

Well that chart is just a bit biased because we had a deep recession from mid 1981 to the end of 1982. And the recession wasn't because of food stamp cuts.

You mean like the bias that blames Obama for Bush's recession held over from 2007? Got it....

pineinthegrass wrote: And the recession wasn't because of food stamp cuts.

No, but it does kind of make the claim that people that got cut off food stamps just went out and merrily got jobs sound like the lie it is.

AspenValley - your numbers only show the first years under Reagan. The Carter recession was barely over in 1983. The economy boomed from 1983 to 1988.

I don't know where your getting your figures- I remember the unemployment under Carter- the inflation, 16% home loans- long gas lines. I remember better times in the 80's, a completely different picture than what you and LJ would have us believe.

Gimmie a break!

LadyJazzer wrote: You mean like the bias that blames Obama for Bush's recession held over from 2007? Got it....

I do blame Bush for the recession Obama inherited and Carter's horrendous economy for the recession which began shortly after Reagan entered office. So I'm being consistant. Are you?

BearMtnHIB wrote: AspenValley - your numbers only show the first years under Reagan. The Carter recession was barely over in 1983. The economy boomed from 1983 to 1988.

I don't know where your getting your figures- I remember the unemployment under Carter- the inflation, 16% home loans- long gas lines. I remember better times in the 80's, a completely different picture than what you and LJ would have us believe.

Gimmie a break!

Maybe times were great for you in the 1980s, but my husband and I BOTH got laid off from our jobs TWICE during that period. It was the age of Gordon Gecko, corporate raiders, and massive downsizing. Wall Street boomed, but the middle class got squeezed. Sound familiar? It should, because the Bush administration was just a continuation of the same wrong-headed policies instituted under Reagan.

Everyone talks about Carter inflation but they never talk about Nixon and Ford inflation. I remember that pretty well, too. Wage and price freezes anyone? Yes, interest rates soared under Carter, but cutting off too-cheap credit was actually what got us out of the Nixon-Ford stagflation. And I think you're memory is getting a little fuzzy if you think the gas lines started under Carter - that happened long before, in the early 1970s. And guess who was President at the time?

You guys are great at re-writing history but some of us actually remember what it was like and aren't buying the rosy picture you try to paint of the Reagan years. My husband and I, both college-educated professionals, struggled woefully in the Reagan years, as did many others. And there is no denying that in spite of all his small government talk, he actually grew the government in an unprecedented way and ended his term with a large deficit and put us on the path that has led to economic collapse.

It looks to me like if you actually LOOK at the chart "where she got her figures" was the Congressional Record of 1984. Since the chart covers 7 of the 8 years of Reagan's presidency, 1977-1983, and was produced in 1984 before the 1984 figures were all in, I fail to see "where she got her numbers" could be anything but intuitively obvious to someone who actually READS THE CHART.

Isn't it funny how kool-aid drinking faithful "remember it different", but the numbers don't lie.

Yes, Pine, I blame Carter for a totally screwed up economy. He messed it up royally... And I was still a Republican when Reagan entered office.

Question?
What years was reagan president?
Answer;
1981-1989

For me the economy was awsome in the 80's. Everyone around me was doing well. We were making money and getting raises. Disco was dead and New Wave was in.

And all over town- sexy girls were shakin their asses!
I don't know where you were - but you were in the wrong place.

Contrast that with the economy today- everyone I know is having some kind of hard times.