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Almost one in 10 Floridians are on food stamps
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JOSE PAGLIERY
The Miami Herald
December 30, 2008
MIAMI — Unemployed and strapped for cash, Floridians are asking for state assistance to feed their families in record numbers.
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In the last two years, the number of Floridians on food stamps has increased more than 40 percent to 1.7 million. That increase is the highest in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And it’s the second-largest jump in the state’s history, surpassed only during the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, said an analyst at the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington-based think tank.
Almost one in 10 Floridians is now on food stamps, and state managers say many more qualify.
Evidence of the unprecedented rise was on display at the Florida Department of Children & Families office in Miami recently, where the line of people waiting for help snaked out the door and around the corner.
One of them was Hardy Prado, who held his 22-month-old daughter in his arms while he waited to check on the status of his application.
As a handyman, his work is irregular and his paycheck isn’t enough to pay the bills. And Prado said it has been almost impossible for his partner, Ana Camacho, to find work since she left her job at a Doral flower shop on maternity leave in February 2007.
With every increase of the unemployment rate, drop in the housing market and tightening of credit, food stamp lines have lengthened, said Stacy Dean, a director at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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December 30th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=channel
December 30th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Get the hell out of Florida and settle right into a forgoten farm somewhere in the midwest, it will truly be the best way out of the times ahead.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Get a good pair of boots, sleeping bags, tents, backpacks, and head to the hill with all the food and ammo you can carry folks. Do it before they release the bioterror. Save your families!
http://military-rucksacks.blogspot.com/
December 30th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
~ABOUT POLICE SPEEDING THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS.
~I cant speak for this particular officer but what i do know is most officers approach a home with lights off and sirens off when arriving.To not warn the criminals, and they often stop a few homes down before they walk up cautiously. (If its a more serious call definitely) So it possible that he was taking advantage of his powers and i think we all do it at time no matter our profession,race,culture, but usually if they are driving fast that way through the Neighborhoods that’s why from what iv learned. Hope this helped.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Incremntal deopendcy on GVt programs that are literally the theft of another citizens labor through taxation.
The GVT steals from those who will and gives to those who can’t or worse.. won’t.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Brace yourselves.
December 30th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
floriduh is a retard redneck right to work state a state that wants to pay everyone minimum wage , and after being double bushwacked by jeb and the king doofus gwb it is really in bad shape , all you inbred simpletons stay right there and do nothing to fix your labor laws so that the wealth produced by the WORKERS actually benefits the workers {Floriduh is about as close as you get to third world status and the economy has only just begun to fall apart , heckuva job bushie
December 30th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
casual observer get your head out of your ass you stupid f---
December 30th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
There is a huge number of Haitian and Dominican immigrants who are poorly educated and see no need to work, since they get welfare anyway. They view their life as constant pleasure full of sex, foodstamps, and free housing provided by the State. When newspaper brings an example of handyman with no work and his girlfriend – flower shop worker, it does not mean anything. These type of people never have steady work. Why bother?
December 31st, 2008 at 12:05 am
If these people want to fix their situation they will demand florida passes the Minnesota…I mean Florida Transportaion Act. This is the author of the act http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV-k6uwPntQ
December 31st, 2008 at 7:41 am
From Wikipedia:
“The number of Americans receiving food stamps reached 31.5 million in September 2008 (10.3% of the total USA population), the highest absolute number since the program began in 1962; but the highest ratio was reached in 1994 with 10.5% of the American population.”
So, it seems that 1 in 10 in all of the US are on food stamps.
December 31st, 2008 at 7:54 am
I’m from Orlando Florida and let me tell you from first hand its so bad there, I was laid-off in May 08 and found a job in Cleveland Ohio the next month that i took because there is nothing in Florida! Try and look on the job searches in Orlando area or Tampa and you will see theres nothing! So now my family is in warm weather and im up in the snow working to just pay bills and keep food on the table. I dont know what Transportation Act is going to do since the Gov. here is a sell out and Jed Bush put him in office and that should say enough right there.
Also since i took this job in Ohio the other guys that got laid-off with me are still with no work and there unemployment is about to run out down there, since sell-out Crisp and Jed made it where you can only get up to 250 a week max and if you no anything about Florida thats nothing to live on!
December 31st, 2008 at 8:05 am
LETS GIVE POWER TO THE PEOPLE, GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE
December 31st, 2008 at 10:02 am
Just imagine the way these poor people must feel when they only have a few more weeks left of unemployment checks and they have no idea where they are going to be able to find a job. Oh sure they can get on food stamps….great. They will be living in their cars, if they are lucky enough to have a car, and eating peanut butter and cheese sandwiches on stale bread that no one else wants.
And what happens if they have children? I thank God every day for the roof over my head and decent food to eat. I just wish everyone in our country could have the same.
December 31st, 2008 at 11:05 am
Comacho…..she leaves a job to have a kid and then expects someone else to feed them. Nobody ever makes contingency plans for when s--- happens.
December 31st, 2008 at 11:47 am
I’ve lived in Florida all my life. As far as people being inbreed, I have yet to see any. As far as people being on food stamps at some point, I have seen many. Florida’s economy is based on the snow birds and tourist. If you live in a small retirement community, it’s slow but not depressed. Places like Miami, Orlando, and Tampa are fast paced cities that the old people tend to avoid. So hopefully the retirees won’t get robbed too much out of their savings. (but probably will) Florida will eventually worsen but there’s also another huge industry around here, expanding everyday, it’s called the black market.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I’m glad these people get food stamps. I want no one hungry in the USA.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
This is an impressive statistic because of all the impediments for food stamp eligibility. You have to get master’s degree to fill out all the forms!! You really have to be DESPERATE with a capital “D”. . .
December 31st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I live in south Florida,the reason that there are lots of people on foodstamps isn’t because of necessity,it’s because these are primarily Hispanic immigrants who will gladly take advantage of any societal benefit that we foolish Gringo’s offer.
That’s like saying that “Black’s can’t find work so they must depend on welfare”.nonsense!,Blacks are on welfare because they are naturally parasitic.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
One in twelve Oklahomans are on food stamps.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:44 pm
damn, blacks are naturally parasitic? That’s ignorant as hell. Like saying all whites want to control the world. Don’t be a douche. I live in FL too and it is because jobs are extremely scarce. I lost mine because my company went out of business and I can’t even get a fast food job. Florida leads the nation in job losses so the problem is very real. Immigrants are a part of the problem because they take labor jobs for half of a living wage but that wouldn’t be a problem if we still had those 680,000 jobs that no longer exist. Point the finger where it belongs and quit being such a idiot.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Just my thoughts! I dont recieve food stamps or any government help on anything I may well qualify but I dont want to take anything from this illigal government and then have them tell me how I will raise my child or how i will live. However I work hard for the little I have and provide as best I can for my child, as a single father who does work and pay taxes if it was not for all the taxes and related regulations on how I will do things (according to these governments) I could probably afford to get health insurance and other things I have done with out for so long. But when there is no money coming in people have to take whatever they can to feed their children and themselves if we had the money for this so called bail out of banks and bailed out our selves wouldnt we all be better off? We all know that the polocies we are seeing are not good for American (United States) soverignty, nor do we want a new world order to be our new government but it is well in play and the bankers, power brokers,United nations, war mongers and others know well that this will happen and Floridians and others are now helpless victims just as all innocents are when wars are fought weather with bombs, bullets, food, or control
January 5th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
A gentleman I know sat and figured it out. If the bail out was used as a stimulous instead every person who got a stimulous check would have recieved an additional check for approx. $40,000. Now the way I look at it this would have stimulated our economy much more as we would have spent this buying the cars we are unable to afford or the things we want or paid bills we could not pay or the food we need to feed our fmilies. These guys in Washington make less and less sense everyday.