Bushonomics 2
The failed Republican stewardship of the government is leaving its stamp on the economy.
Unfortunately, it’s a food stamp (emphasis added).
These are, social-service advocates say, dire days for families already beset by climbing gas prices and declining wages.
At the kitchen table, the gas pump and the workplace, people are being squeezed and compelled to live their lives with less and less.
But food is the greatest worry.
“We have a crisis,” said Sydelle Zove, interim food-stamp campaign manager for the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger.
“Meals are scarce,” said Susan Smith, a 44-year-old Chester woman with diminishing means. “I’m 5-foot-10 and weigh 130. I should weigh 150.
“I need some food.”
(snip)
All this has occurred as food prices in the Northeastern United States have risen 14 percent since 2002 and median wages in metropolitan Philadelphia (excluding New Jersey) have dropped 4 percent during the same period, said Mark Price, labor economist with the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan policy-development institute in Harrisburg.
Regarding the boldfaced portion: So much for the Republican lie of “trickle down economics.”
May 9, 2008 at 7:28 am
I’d settle for a government that didn’t fall for a phrase like "stewardship of the economy."
December 13, 2010 at 2:45 am
food stamps are great because it is instant food and you can consider it also as free lunch ;,`