nakkh Loc: San Mateo, Ca

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a40091/scott-walker-food-stamp-cuts/

"They will bankrupt our food banks," said Sherrie Tussler, executive director of the Milwaukee-based Hunger Task Force, a supplier of food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters with emergency food. In Wisconsin, about 770,000 people receive FoodShare benefits as of September, according to DHS. The law automatically enrolls eligible recipients in a program designed to help them find employment called the FoodShare Employment and Training program. Since the new law took effect, just 7 percent of recipients in Milwaukee County—where about half of the able-bodied childless adult recipients live—that were referred to the program were placed in jobs, state data show."

green Loc: 22.1749611,-159.646704,20

WHO SAID THE REPUBLICANS DIDN'T HAVE ANY SOLUTIONS?

PrairieSeasons Loc: Red River of the North

When the entire first paragraph of a hit piece like this one is devoted to an ad hominem attack rather than substantive reporting, you can be pretty sure that the hack writing it isn't going to be objective.

Nevertheless, Wisconsin's law doesn't require that the food stamp recipients actually work - just that the able bodied among them BE LOOKING FOR WORK! It seems a reasonable requirement.

Zophman Loc: Northwest

What's wrong with demanding a little self worth and responsibility?

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Hmmmm....

According to Twardlow the Obama economy is going along so well... So? How can this be?

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

Maybe you're right! Let's take the stock market back to bush's level--6,000!

McKinneyMike Loc: Texas

Why would any Republican have an issue with the Wall Street/Big Corporation economy that they live and die to protect! Seems to be a well oiled machine right now. Just stealing from the middle to line their wallets with gold. Capitalism is doing marvelously well it would seem to any of the 1% top wage earners in America.
Why would anyone want Bush's economy?????

PrairieSeasons Loc: Red River of the North

We WILL take the stock market back to 6000 in the near future, but just as Obama's policies weren't the cause of the past seven years of DOW increase, they won't be the cause of the coming crash.

Two things are more obviously the driver of the stock market's valuation moves, and both of them show that the market is more and more disconnected with the mainstream economy. First, the Fed's zero interest policy has made both the stock and commodity markets inflate since 2008/9. Second, the commodity market has already cratered - falling 50% in the last two years in both energy and consumables. The stock market can do nothing but follow.

It's interesting (in a bad way) to see the network news geniuses in New York, Washington and LA talk about the fantastic economic times we're living in, while the real economy in fly over country is already in recession. The money traders may still be prospering, but the underlying productive economy can't continue to support them.

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

Stock market is reactionary, wild fluctuations based on conjecture and rumor, and no longer the cornerstone or yard stick of the economy it once was. It is the playground of the rich and huge funds. The single investor scared out, as perfectly healthy companies can fail in stocks as the wind shifts...

And the left hates it and villifies it... unless they think touting it is a feather in their cap. That is called hypocrisy... a synonym of "progressive" and "liberal"

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

770,000 people unemployed...Wow. What do you think the problem is?

green Loc: 22.1749611,-159.646704,20

short-term memory loss?

PrairieSeasons Loc: Red River of the North

This just in -- look at the first paragraph of this article on today's market decline. Wall Street traders apparently don't think the economy is going along so well.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/us-markets.html

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

The stock market is hardly an indicator of how the US economy is doing, all one has to do is look around to see the truth in this. Our American listed corps are international, most of those which produce manufacture a great deal of their products or components overseas... I would venture to say that the US stock market is a great indicator of how much free money the FED is lending to Wall Street investment bankers and how well the Mexican and BRIC economies are doing.