On the Sunny Side
Just because the cat has her kittens in the oven
doesn't make them biscuits
--Old Polish proverb, Banacek
It's good news week,
Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere,
Contaminating atmosphere
And blackening the sky
--It's Good News Week,
Hedgehoppers Anonymous
The best is yet to come,
and won't that be fine
You think you've seen the sun,
but you ain't seen it shine
--The Best is Yet to Come, Frank Sinatra
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Demand for food stamps is up in most states, and in Florida, the recent demand has been record-breaking.
Providing an upside to the nation's economic woes, 288 new full-time workers will be hired to "help handle" the increased case load:
Also, anticipating a criminal wave due to said impoverishment, Florida gun owners are flooding the state with requests for concealed carry permits. In response, "[a] legislative panel Wednesday gave Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson the OK to spend $3.9 million more so he can hire 61 temporary workers" to addressed the jacked up demand for the permits (Florida can't Keep Up With Concealed weapons Permit Requests.)
Poverty and crime -- a winning combo.
doesn't make them biscuits
--Old Polish proverb, Banacek
It's good news week,
Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere,
Contaminating atmosphere
And blackening the sky
--It's Good News Week,
Hedgehoppers Anonymous
The best is yet to come,
and won't that be fine
You think you've seen the sun,
but you ain't seen it shine
--The Best is Yet to Come, Frank Sinatra
_____________
Demand for food stamps is up in most states, and in Florida, the recent demand has been record-breaking.
Providing an upside to the nation's economic woes, 288 new full-time workers will be hired to "help handle" the increased case load:
Already, the Legislature has approved giving DCF $2.5 million more for employees to work overtime processing food-stamp applications.
In the last year Florida has added more than 408,835 new food-stamp recipients, a 29-percent increase (Food Stamps in Large Demand.)
So you see, there is always a silver lining. Servicing the newly impoverished is a growth industry.
Also, anticipating a criminal wave due to said impoverishment, Florida gun owners are flooding the state with requests for concealed carry permits. In response, "[a] legislative panel Wednesday gave Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson the OK to spend $3.9 million more so he can hire 61 temporary workers" to addressed the jacked up demand for the permits (Florida can't Keep Up With Concealed weapons Permit Requests.)
Poverty and crime -- a winning combo.
Labels: depressed economy, food stamps
posted by rangeragainstwar at 7:05 PM
3 Comments:
Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson
Please tell me this isn't his real name.
jo6pac
Everything is on schedule, please move along.
one would think from reading the "armed citizen" columns and watching the stats that the states where people carry concealed easily there would be no crime.
seems to me that there's a lot of child snatching and other stuff happening in ya'll's neck of them woods. oops, forgot. florida ain't got no woods to speak of. lotta swamp, little woods.
food stamps are stimulus on steroids. it works like this. infuse a bank with cash and they hoard. it's their nature, can't really blame them. infuse the poor and hungry with slips of paper that can be turned into food and they also behave rationally. they take them to the grocer's and spend it. right now.
want to reduce crime for real, instead of walking around pretending you're an armed badass with a body count? feed some folks. help them find some good shelter.
start acting like jesus instead of clint eastwood on a bad day.
they are starting already due to drought into cutting the allocations to farmers in the central valley of california. they are still running car washes in l.a. though. glad to see our priorities are right in line with florida's. we'll be hungry but our cars will be clean. ya'll will be hungry too. but you'll be well armed.
sometimes i really fear for this country.
Jo,
How could I have missed the obvious and ultimate absurdity. YES -- Charles Bronson IS his name!
Thanks.
MB,
Jesus's example will not be taken, b/c everyone wants to shun/ostracize/scapegoat someone. "The bums," they disgustedly say-- but the dirty ones, not the Wall St. ones. Because all hope one day that they, too, might be able to rape and pillage.
They've got a religious system in place to exonerate them, should they be able to pull it off. Better yet, God wants them to prosper.
Hollywood has already shown them that playing a badass is very cool.
Clean cars and well-armed, but hungry, alas. You may add spiritually impoverished to that list.
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