Binx08--Where did you take economics.  If you take a dollar out of my paycheck and give it to a foodstamp recipient to spend, how is that multiplied?  Now take in to account that most of that dollar is actually borrowed by our govt., any possible multiple is lost to the interest that has to be paid forever on the money...more

Amen brother---limit what they can buy abd where they can buy it.  Keeps them healtier and limits the cost of the program.

I am once again surprised by this article.  Why are we allowing anyone on foodstamps to purchase such high cost, no nutritional value items as Monster, Mountain Dew, KitKats and other junk food.  Benjamin Franklin said that we need to make people uncopmfortable in their poverty to make them change.  Food stamps should ...more

They have the choice to forgo the highest end cell phone or tablet. To forgo the top tier cable and highest speed internet. To forgo an apartment of their own with not room-mates .  To forgo the brand new car.  I did and am looking forward to a good retirement and my early savings amounts were not great but were made e...more

I agree with Bigbrute---Life is one choice after another.  If you work hard and make the right choices you can have a comfortable retirement.  My wife and I started "paying ourselves first" out of every paycheck by taking advantage of our employers 401K.  We had to make the choice to not have cable and not drive the ne...more

I am all for freedom of speech.  But just as she had the right to speak, she also has to live with the backlash it brought.  I was not a fan before her statements and still am not.  I wish her luck, but will not be a part of her success.

I have no problem with helping someone that has had a true hardship. It should be on the mortgage hol;der to work with those that are really in a hardship and want to try and stay in the house.  However simply letting someone  walk away from a mortgage because the home is worth less than when you bought and you have mo...more

The real problem in this country is that too many people want the govt to take care of all their needs,and wee simply can't afford that on thebacks of those that are working.  Spending needs to be cut and cut dramatically.  I lost my job over a year ago.  I don't know how people are getting 99 weeks of unemployment ben...more

A fairly simple solution is out there and has been voiced before.  Stop the pension for all new hires and set up a 401K retirement system like most companies have and go to the normal snail mail delivery 3 days a week.  Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  Still allows all the advertising junk mail top get delivered on Wed a...more