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In "Alabama Nightclub Raises Eyebrows With ‘Food Stamp Friday’ Party," The Daily Caller reports on how one business is adapting to the times.

A nightclub in Montgomery, Ala. is raising eyebrows by hosting a “Food Stamp Friday” party on April 6 that seems to glamorize life on the federal government’s food assistance program.
 
An invitation for the April 6 party obtained by The Daily Caller tells patrons of the Rose Supper Club in North Montgomery that the Friday night cover charge will be just $5 if a “food stamp card” is shown upon arrival.
 
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was designed for Americans living at near-poverty levels.
 
According to the flashy, postcard-size flier advertising the party, there will be “free shots at the door.” The announcement’s artwork mimics an Electronic Benefit Transfer card, the debit card used by Americans to redeem their SNAP benefits.
 
Glamorizing federal assistance bothers some who have seen the posters.
 
“I just don’t understand how they are promoting this without anyone saying anything about it,” Stephanie Pope, a Montgomery resident who has seen the fliers in gas stations, told TheDC.
 
Orlando Rogers, an employee who answered the telephone at the Rose on Thursday, confirmed that the “Food Stamp Friday” party is taking place at the venue next month.
 
Rogers said he wasn’t involved in the planning of the party, so he couldn’t comment on the event’s theme.
 
“It’s just a little party they’re having,” he said.

In fact, given how so many people seem to be keeping their heads above water in today's allegedly recovering economy, the Rose Supper Club and other venues might want to consider staging similarly-themed events on other days of the week. Among the possibilities:

• Medicaid Monday
• TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Tuesday
• Welfare Wednesday
• Thrift Shop Thursday
• SSI (Supplemental Security Income) Saturday
• Social Security Sunday

Wow, I guess the bulls are right: there really is a silver lining behind every cloud.

Comments

[Tom]

Just as that last saying has been modified to reveal the truth about chemtrails(by Dutchsinse):
"Every cloud has a silver IODIDE lining," so too should your "party" be looked at again as a way for a hurting business to drum up sales. Sure they're going to give you a free shot of something at the door - that will loosen you up to spend money you don't have on feeling good for the moment. Long after the party's over, these same people will be wondering what happened to the little money they had scraped together.

[Food stamp party trivial to sodom and gomorrah]

Financiers and Sex Trafficking

The two biggest owners are Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey, the managers of the company, and they seem to own about half of the shares. The best known of the other owners is Goldman Sachs, which invested in the company in 2000 (before Backpage became a part of Village Voice Media in a 2006 merger).

A Goldman managing director, Scott L. Lebovitz, sat on the Village Voice Media board for many years. Goldman says he stepped down in early 2010.

Let’s be clear: this is a tiny investment by a huge company, and I have no reason to think that Goldman’s top executives knew of its connection to sex trafficking. Goldman prides itself on its work on gender: its 10,000 Women initiative does splendid work supporting women in business around the globe. Full disclosure: Goldman’s foundation was one of about 15 funders of a public television documentary version of a book that my wife and I wrote about the world’s women.

That said, for more than six years Goldman has held a significant stake in a company notorious for ties to sex trafficking, and it sat on the company’s board for four of those years. There’s no indication that Goldman or anyone else ever used its ownership to urge Village Voice Media to drop escort ads or verify ages. Elizabeth L. McDougall, chief counsel for Village Voice Media, told me Friday that she was “unaware of any dissent” from owners.

There are no easy solutions to sex trafficking. I think the most important single step is for prosecutors to focus more on pimps and johns. Closing down the leading Web site used by traffickers would complicate their lives, and after so many years of girls being trafficked on this site, it’s time to hold owners accountable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/kristof-financers-and-sex-trafficking.html

[Guess MSM is wrong on the recovery]

Americans Are Ditching The Mockingbird Media Propaganda – in Droves!

http://sgtreport.com/2012/04/americans-are-away-from-the-mockingbird-media-propaganda-in-droves/

[roger,]

Geithner arrested 116 major bank resignations PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHATS SAID HERE !!!
you tube. Leap 20/20

[Can't make this stuff up]

Geithner Wants To Get Rid of Physical Currency (Better Tracking)

Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, wants to get rid of paper money. He says it’s part of a cost-cutting measure.

Nonsense. It’s part of the government’s attempt to track our purchases. Its a plan to get rid of the underground economy, where people buy what they want, sell what they want, and leave no digital trail.

The government cannot control the cash markets. It wants to tax them. But paper money resists taxation.
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1114.html

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's?

How do you spell debasement? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_coin_debasement

Treasury to Cut Costs by Remaking Coins, Replacing Paper

Changing the makeup of coins and improving the efficiency of currency production will save more than $75 million in the next fiscal year. In addition, the suspension of presidential dollar coin production, announced in December, will save another $50 million.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/03/28/treasury-to-cut-costs-by-remaking-coins-replacing-paper/