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jwirr

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3. What do you mean on or near? Food stamps replaced bread lines. If you are getting food stamps

Reply to dajoki (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:22 PM

Jan 2012

then you would be standing in a bread line if it was taken away. That is something that too few people understand - when we ask ourselves "are we in a depression?" we should consider that we may be IF we did not have Social Security, Food Stamps, Medicare/Medicaid, etc. I think we are in a depression that is hidden by the benefits that keep us safer.

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Almost Half Of U.S. Households Live One Crisis From The Bread Line [View all] dajoki Jan 2012 OP

du rec. nt xchrom Jan 2012 #1

Thanks for the link flakey_foont Jan 2012 #2

Yes, VERY unsettling n/t dajoki Jan 2012 #6

What do you mean on or near? Food stamps replaced bread lines. If you are getting food stamps jwirr Jan 2012 #3

You need... dajoki Jan 2012 #4

That is correct. The housing situation is the visible evidence of depression while we take the food jwirr Jan 2012 #13

Great reality check. To both us and to those in the group joeglow3 Jan 2012 #5

I lived on that bubble for CRK7376 Jan 2012 #7

I have had Puzzledtraveller Jan 2012 #8

I'm one of those people lunatica Jan 2012 #9

*raises hand* Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #10

Each and Every One of them Should Be Voting for Expanded Govt. Social Programs Yavin4 Jan 2012 #11

Absolutely true n/t dajoki Jan 2012 #12