On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:48:23 -0500, Jeff M <NoS...@NoThanks.org>
wrote:
He's a piece of shit.
Elsewhere on the hallowed grounds of alt.politics are two threads
populated by the Champion Liars: George Plimpton, PHANTOM, and
Criminal Drivers. The topic of these threads is something about "food
stamp recruiters."
They tell us bullshit about how recruiters are out dragooning people
into signing up for food stamps whether they need to or not. They
claim that one recruiter is supposed to sign up 50 a day.
BULLSHIT and again I call BULLSHIT.
Their lies are perversions of a Washington Post story that can be
found at this link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-florida-a-food-stamp-recruiter-deals-with-wrenching-choices/2013/04/23/b3d6b41c-a3a4-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_story.html
Here are the opening paragraphs. Read the entire story and what you
will find . . . which is not what these three lying pieces of shit
want you to find . . . is that lots and lots of people are hurting
badly because of the economic policies of Reagan-Bush-Ryan-onomics.
Note, too, the story is based in FLORIDA, which is controlled by
Republicans who, as we know, love to see poor people starve.
Not exactly what George Plimpton, PHANTOM, and Criminal Drivers want
to hear.
-- quote
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A good recruiter needs to be liked, so Dillie
Nerios filled gift bags with dog toys for the dog people and cat food
for the cat people. She packed crates of cookies, croissants,
vegetables and fresh fruit. She curled her hair and painted her nails
fluorescent pink. “A happy, it’s-all-good look,” she said, checking
her reflection in the rearview mirror. Then she drove along the
Florida coast to sign people up for food stamps.
Her destination on a recent morning was a 55-and-over community in
central Florida, where single-wide trailers surround a parched golf
course. On the drive, Nerios, 56, reviewed techniques she had learned
for connecting with some of Florida’s most desperate senior citizens
during two years on the job. Touch a shoulder. Hold eye contact.
Listen for as long as it takes. “Some seniors haven’t had anyone to
talk to in some time,” one of the state-issued training manuals reads.
“Make each person feel like the only one who matters.”
In fact, it is Nerios’s job to enroll at least 150 seniors for food
stamps each month, a quota she usually exceeds. Alleviate hunger,
lessen poverty: These are the primary goals of her work. But the job
also has a second and more controversial purpose for cash-strapped
Florida, where increasing food-stamp enrollment has become a means of
economic growth, bringing almost $6 billion each year into the state.
The money helps to sustain communities, grocery stores and food
producers. It also adds to rising federal entitlement spending and the
U.S. debt.
Nerios prefers to think of her job in more simple terms: “Help is
available,” she tells hundreds of seniors each week. “You deserve it.
So, yes or no?”
In Florida and everywhere else, the answer in 2013 is almost always
yes. A record 47 million Americans now rely on the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps,
available for people with annual incomes below about $15,000. The
program grew during the economic collapse because 10 million more
Americans dropped into poverty. It has continued to expand four years
into the recovery because state governments and their partner
organizations have become active promoters, creating official “SNAP
outreach plans” and hiring hundreds of recruiters like Nerios.
A decade ago, only about half of eligible Americans chose to sign up
for food stamps. Now that number is 75 percent.
. . .
end quote
And, you busted liars might be interested in this tidbit:
-- quote
More people than ever rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. This is in part due to
a bad economy, but it's also because hundreds of recruiters now work
to enroll people in the government program. State governments have
realized that, with more people on the SNAP program, more federal
money comes into the local economy. We take a look at the jurisdiction
of Dillie Nerios, a recruiter in Florida, as she works toward her
monthly quota of signing up 150 people.
-- end quote
Got that: ". . . more federal money comes into the local economy. "
Just like a red state . . . sucking at the federal tit while preaching
self-reliance, cut spending, damn the 47 percent!!!!!!!!