DOLLAR THE DEBT EMPIRE OR THE EMPIRE OF DEBT - THE DEBT STAR OR WHATEVER - B-LOGS LIKE EMPIRES ARE TERRITORIAL THEY HAVE THE SEEDS OF VIRTUAL DEBT'S IN THEM - THE GREAT UKRANIAN FOOD STAMP WAR

The death of deflation

by Clif Droke - Clif Droke.com

Published : April 30th, 2014

1200 words - Reading time : since 2009

 

 monetary liquidity is the single biggest determinant of future stock OR OTHER VIRTUAL prices. 

GOLD COPPER ASBESTOS HYDRAGIRUM ALL DEPEND OF FIDUTIA AND LIQUIDITY OF THIS PAPER OR BIT CON FIDUTIARY COIN 

THE FIDUTIARY TRUST IN A WORLD THAT PRINT 

 

MONEY TO THE POOR 

FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT FOR LIFE

OR ARE IN FOR LIFE

AT LEAST 10 TO 20% OF THE WEST CIVILIZATION

OR 25% OF THE NATO OR O.T.A.N PEOPLE 

CONVICTS ....FOREVER POOR AND HOMELESS SOLDIERS THAT DON'T HAVE THE ESSENTIAL SKILLS TO SURVIVE IN THE JOBLESS WORLD OF TOMORROW

 

AND TOMORROW IS NOW...

Last year the Portland Farmers Market began a popular program

 HELP THE POOR IS POPULAR?

OR THE POOR ARE THE POPULAR CROWD?

 to allow people with food stamps

Food Stamps are there limitations?

Posted by Bruce Wayne.....

#food stamps, #ebt cards, #fraud, #antipoverty programs, #President Obama
Recently you might have heard how people are using their food stamps to buy Marijuana. This story has added to the alarm that taxpayers have felt after seeing individuals also using food stamps for items such as porn and alcohol. Yet what should food stamps be used for?
I believe food stamps need to be there as a safety net for those least among us to insure that they receive the basic food and nutrition to survive but nothing more. 

Food Stamp Cards – Just Like Express They’re Priceless

So Why Are People Ashamed To Use Them?

Deli sandwich with chips and soda $5.00; filet mignon from your favorite butcher $26.00; live main lobster $18.00; using your Food Stamp ACCESS card to purchase these items….PRICELESS.  Many individuals receiving public assistance benefits view Food Stamps as priceless. And why not, as a recipient, you can eat and drink (non-alcoholically) like royalty, without spending a dime of your own money.  But for others, especially the elderly, even though they may qualify for Food Stamps or may need them desperately, often they’re just too embarrassed to apply for them or share with others that they use them.
Whether you’re shopping at the Fulton Street Fish Market, your favorite supermarket, or the Papi store on the corner, you can purchase canned, packaged, frozen or fresh food, thanks to the US government. For many individuals and their families, the Food Stamp Access Card is quickly becoming the new American Express card of the 21^st century.
According to newly released information from the Department of Agriculture, the number of recipients in Food Stamp programs across the nation has reached 47.5 million or one in six Americans (and still growing.)  The Food Stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) may have changed their name, but their service of providing food for the needy is still the same.
The Food Stamp Program is officially administered by the US Department of Agriculture, but is disbursed through various programs as mandated by their individual state.
Of the many states that administer Food Stamp programs, Mississippi and Washington, DC have the largest populations relying on these benefits; 22% in Mississippi and 23% in Washington, DC, respectively.
According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 51 million Americans currently qualify for Food Stamps, but less than 40 million people actually receive the benefit.  Why?
According to Ellen Vollinger, Legal Director of the Food Research and Action Center, (FRAC),”there are several reasons why people miss out on Food Stamp benefits:  some people don’t know that they are eligible for the programs; others find the application process too difficult and cumbersome; and others, feel that there is a socio-economical stigma attached to receiving public assistance benefits, which makes them shun away from applying.”  In my opinion, these reasons, coupled with the emergence of programs like ‘Meals on Wheels,’ make older Americans hold out much longer before applying for the Food Stamp cards they’d be embarrassed to use in public.
According to the USDA, the number of people receiving Food Stamps or SNAP benefits varies according to demographic groups.  However, eligible, older Americans are generally much less inclined to sign up for the SNAP benefit.
Vollinger, also stated that “One of the misconceptions that FRAC commonly hears from the elderly is that “they don’t want to take away benefits from someone else who may need them.”  She further explained that she’s consistently explaining  to the elderly that one person’s participation in the program doesn’t reduce the benefits available to others.
Vollinger, who also directs FRAC’s advocacy on behalf of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/Food Stamps), has led FRAC’s efforts to bolster Food Stamps, particularly to serve working families, legal immigrants and victims of disasters.
Since their inception, Food Stamps have proven themselves invaluable over-and-over again to those in need. And although they may not be as versatile as an American Express card, they’re still priceless to the families that receive them.
See for yourself.

SNAP Food Stamp Program Maximum Monthly Allotments
People in Household	October 1, 2012 through September   30, 2013
1	$200
2	$367
3	$526
4	$668
5	$793
6	$952
7	$1052
8	$1202
Each additional person	$150

Written By DeBorah Heggs Alston

Given a loose enough monetary policy, food stamps and stock prices will always respond by going higher.  

 Williams, according to the complaint, motored into southeast Wisconsin neighborhoods in his luxury SUV, although he didn’t actually sell anything.
Investigators claim what Williams did was swipe QUEST cards through a card reader he received from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, pulling out the cash and splitting it with the cardholders. By the official count in the complaint, Williams allegedly racked up nearly $800,000 in food assistance fraud over the span of about a year and half.
USDA reportedly was warned, but Williams continued to hold a vendor permit to accept QUEST cards

 

The loose monetary environment of the last five years has been facilitated by record low interest rates.     Low interest rates have also made possible the relatively strong retail economy of the last couple of years, which in turn has allowed consumers to finance homes and purchase automobiles.  Further, it’s indisputable that the low interest rate environment of recent years has been a boon for corporate financing. Low interest rates are at once a symptom and a contributor to deflation.   Low rates contribute to deflation by allowing businesses to continue producing when their more efficient competitors would have buried them under normal circumstances.  This translates into increased competition, which means more supply is produced resulting in falling prices for many goods and services. One of the most important aspects of the 60-year cycle of inflation/deflation is that it governs the direction of interest rates.   The cycle can be divided into half, with the first 30 years witnessing an overall rising trend inflation, while the second half is marked by falling interest rates, hence disinflation or deflation.   This was followed by a 30-year cycle into the early 1950s, followed by another 30-year advance into the early 1980s – just as the Kress cycle predicted.  The last 30 or so years, of course, have been marked by dramatically falling interest rates in reflection of the deflationary phase of the 120-year cycle. The major financial crisis which always accompanies the final deflationary leg of the long-term cycle occurred in 2008-09.  A crisis of similar magnitude is unlikely for quite some time.  While a milder economic slowdown or global financial panic can still occur while the long-term cycle is bottoming and shifting its phase, central banks have seen to it that any such crisis will be of relatively short duration and of lesser magnitude than the 2008 crisis.  Moreover, any such crisis will not ultimately threaten the survival of the global economy. The next major crisis will likely not involve a deflationary collapse, but rather an inflationary spiral.  When the long-term Kress cycle bottoms later this year, the new long-term cycle of inflation which follows may well cause a major shift in the American standard of living.  The Fed’s zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) will end as the natural rate of interest begins rising.  The velocity of money (the rate at which money changes hands) will reverse its long-term downward trend and will commence a new uptrend as money finally comes out of the sidelines.  Corporate and consumer borrowing will both also steadily increase.  At first this will be highly stimulating for the economy.  According to classical K-Wave theory, the early years of the long-term inflation phase are typically benign and are likened to the mild spring season which follows winter (deflation).  This time around, though, will probably be different.  Considering the tremendous amount of money sitting idle along with several years’ worth of pent-up demand, the money that will inevitably be unleashed upon the economy in the years following 2014 will quickly increase inflationary pressure.  Prices for both raw commodities and finished goods will rise and wages, which have been stagnant for years, will finally do the same.  Combined with rising interest rates, the post-2014 economic climate will be fundamentally different from that of the last 15 years. In a normal inflation/deflation cycle, the transition from deflation to inflation would ordinarily be a gradual progression over a 10-15 year period.  In the U.S., however, years of artificially high retail food and fuel prices will short-circuit this process.  Since retail food and fuel prices were never allowed to decline in the last five years, the increase in the cost of living could be dramatic in the years immediately following the 2014 cycle bottom. THE END OF K-HAVE WAVE THEORY? THE END OF TRANSFER FROM STATE TO THE FAMILY RACKET? AND THE CORPORATION RACKET HOLDS THAT? AI AGUENTA AGUENTA THE END OF TIMES IS NEAR IF YOU ARE POOR OF COURSE....