Number of American Households Receiving Foodstamps Hits All-Time High

While the feds, the Fortune 500 business community, the real estate industry, and their media enablers beat the economic recovery drum, voiceless Americans have another story to tell. According to a post in the financial blog zerohedge.com, the USDA's most recent data on foodstamps showed a 170,000 increase in individual recipients. Further, the number of Americans receiving foodstamps has reached "an all-time high."

Does this sound like a "recovery" to you?

For more perspective on the asymmetrical aspect to the trumpeted "recovery," read a Mercury News feature story on Bay Area families disconnected to Silicon Valley's current gold rush. Of course, these barely franchised families and individuals are not selling aggregated personal information, providing the NSA with Internet and phone call data without legitimate user consent, or having off-camera negotiations with our first Big Data president. They're just, as Mitt Romney so inelegantly put it, "takers."

Meanwhile, the "makers" are very much on the make.