07-13-2013, 07:10 AM
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Originally posted by afwjam
What if you don't have a choice, just like the people paying the taxes? I honestly believe that the financial situation most families are in is no fault of their own, an ever larger percentage of the middle class is dependent on foodstamps now. 50 million Americans are on food stamps, 85% of Hawaiis section 8 housing is in Puna.
Pay attention: current draft of Farm Bill as passed by the House this week drops funding for the food stamp program.
Whether it passes the Senate is almost irrelevant; the message is very clear.
We need a more local-cooperative barter-collective economy in which everyone produces something, or we're all going to starve well before the islands are sold to the Chinese.