Re: [Pen-l] 31 million on food stamps

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:01 PM,  <123hop@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim writes:
>
> IMHO, official statistics on food stamps vastly understate the nature of
> the problem (as do official statistics on poverty) for at least two
> reason: 1) there are substantial hurdles imposed by the government to
> getting food stamps or other forms of aid  and many people, although in
> need, can't surmount them and 2) good ole American rugged
> "individualism" - "I ain't goin' to take no charity, no matter what."

FWIW, I didn't write that, though I agree with it.

-- 
Jim Devine / "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing
in government and business."  -- Tom Robbins
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