A Scary Number

There’s a report in today’s Financial Times quoting the CEO of Kraft as saying that a minimum of 1/6th of their revenues come from…food stamps.

Good god.

4 Responses to “A Scary Number”

1. Syd B. says:

   September 10, 2012 at 11:21 am

   Poor people have to have their mac & cheese and their Oreo cookies, too.

2. Kathy Kinsley says:

   September 10, 2012 at 5:52 pm

   Mac and cheese, probably ok (as long as it’s not pre-cooked from the deli).

   There’s a lot of food-nazi in the food stamps (along with a LOT of very justified ‘no luxuries’ like booze/etc.) No offense, and I like my drinks too – but if you are on food stamps, you need to be buying FOOD (and save your black market earnings for your booze/cigs, etc.).
   I’ve live poor – I’ve seen. (And I was once on food stamps – for one month – actually 3 weeks – I offered to give the rest back and they said ‘keep them’) – was just out of college, and the company I worked for collapsed. Ah well, it was educational, but I haven’t done it again. Too much pride, I guess.

3. Mr. Bingley says:

   September 11, 2012 at 6:03 am

   It just shows the level of dependency that the government is trying to foist upon both people and industry; that’s the truly scary aspect of it.

4. Syd B. says:

   September 11, 2012 at 9:19 am

   Republicans = Equal opportunity
   Democrats = Equal results