Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The Second Great Depression

Brought to you by those monsters in the two posts below, remember that, readers.

I'm ready for a tarring and a feathering!!!!

Then we can eat them!!


"USA 2008: The Great Depression" by David Usborne

"Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive - a sure sign the world's richest country faces.

We knew things were bad on Wall Street,

Well, NOT TODAY!


but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.

Dismal projections by the Congressional Budget Office in Washington suggest that in the fiscal year starting in October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy essential groceries, the highest level since the food assistance programme was introduced in the 1960s.

The increase – from 26.5 million in 2007 – is due partly to recent efforts to increase public awareness of the programme and also a switch from paper coupons to electronic debit cards. But above all it is the pressures being exerted on ordinary Americans by an economy that is suddenly beset by troubles. Housing foreclosures, accelerating jobs losses and fast-rising prices all add to the squeeze...."

TRILLIONS for OCCUPATIONS, BILLIONS for BANK BAILOUTS and BILLIONS for Isra... awwww, forget it!!!!

You GET the POINT, readers!!!