A prize Buffalo doesn't want

Buffalo ranks 5^th in the nation for food stamp use.

The article does not talk about the cause.

Capitalism.

Having fewer workers produce more goods for less money. And this system is supposed to sustain itself how?

So workers have to work two low paying jobs in order to make ends meet. And then need food stamps to help pay for food for their family.

Then we get people complaining that their taxes are too high because of all these social supports that people need. Food stamps. WIC. Government provided health care. Free and reduced lunches at school.

If people were serious about this problem they would be demanding that capitalists pay the workers according to the level of profit they produced. But then that would mean that workers at the bottom would be paid way more than the desk jockeys at the top. And that can not happen. The people in the fancy offices with the expensive suits are the ones that are supposed to be living the American Dream. (It's called that because that's the only place it exists for most people – in their dreams.) Other people are just supposed to work harder and find a way to go to college and maybe one day…..

A person can have an idea, but no one ever really implemented a production idea successfully without help. They always need help. And manufacturing needs workers to produce. So they mechanize and shut down the American plants and move production to places where workers have no rights and can be paid next to nothing.

And they wonder why people need food stamps.

Or they go the route of mechanization, which allows fewer workers to produce more. And the workers that get laid off? Tough luck. Machines are better. They produce more faster, and with greater consistency. There are no off days because of illness, bad traffic, relationship problems with a significant person in the worker's life. Machines do more and better.

Machines can not do it all.

They can make things.

I've never seen a machine buy something.