Nearly one in 10 Ohioans now receives food stamps, the highest number in the state's history./Doug mode on
Caseloads have almost doubled just since 2001, with 1.1 million residents now collecting benefits, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Low wages, unemployment and the rising cost of groceries, gasoline and other necessities are to blame for financial hardships facing many Ohio families.
Caseloads have been rising steadily in the past seven years, said Brian Harter, spokesman for the state agency which oversees the food-stamp program.
"Look at unemployment during this time," he said.
Ohio's jobless rate is 5.3 percent, up from 4.4 percent in 2001.
"The economy and loss of manufacturing jobs are at the root of what's going on. But lately (it's) the rising cost of transportation and food -- people who were barely getting by, are not getting by," said Jack Frech, director of the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services.
"It has pressed folks to the edge to have to rely on food stamps."
Of course, it's not the unemployment rate.. it's not the rising costs of energy and food, while wages are flat.
The problem is that 10% of Ohioans are lazy and refuse to take responsibility for themselves or their families. They have not accomplished the American dream of "liberty, happiness, freedom, and wealth."
Continuing to provide the food stamps to these human beings.. these children.. does nothing but assure they will not get a job and earn their own living.. because when you feed the lazy, they have no incentive to not be lazy.
Besides, the government should not be feeding them.. the Christian churches should be doing it.. and while it is apparent that the churches are not doing their part as Jesus told them.. there's 11 million people in Ohio.. meaning that 1.1 million of them are on food stamps.. and it would be a neat, Jesus-like trick, for the churches to feed that many people.
The government of Ohio is a liberal communist marxist fascism that needs to stop just handing things out to lazy people, because they'll have no reason to do any work.
What to do?
Let them all starve.. men.. women.. and children.. no more handouts.. no more free lunches.. no more food..
Die, lazy people.. die.
/Doug mode off
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Wealth isn't actually as far off the original sentiment as you might think.
They guy who Jefferson stole that from, John Locke, originally wrote "Life, liberty, and estate." Estate being commonly refered to as property aka wealth.
No.. that's not correct.. from the wiki
Locke said that "no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions."[1]
Estate being commonly refered to as your stuff.. NOT a philosophy of valuing the accumulation of stuff.. or wealth.
He simply meant you should be secure in your home and your possessions.. not that there is some inherint goodness in fixating on getting rich.
Regardless, my point is that a lot of the loons, like Doug, go on and on about religion and Jesus.. but act completely contrary to what Jesus said.
Oh.. and I actually think money (a lot of it) is nice.. and a noble pursuit.. done in the right way.. but then I'm not a Christian.
The point is the hypocrisy.
I completely agree on the hypocracy point. The beatitudes are one of the key points in Christian theology, yet they are perhaps the most ignored.
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