Posted on 10/28/2013 4:04:49 PM PDT by Kartographer
In my volunteer job as a triage interviewer at a local food bank I’m beginning to see this. The Department of Human Services(DHS) in South Carolina lists the monthly food stamp amounts on the Household Summary clients must present for us to help them.
The months listed start with the next month and go backwards for 12 months. So I’m seeing the amount for Nov and it’s five percent less than the October amount. I’ll ask, “Do you know your food stamps are going down next month?” Majority of clients don’t know and are upset when I point out the November number on the report.
I have been told this reduction is because several billion dollars of nobama’s stimulus was thrown at food stamps and now that money has been used up. I don’t know if this is the truth but it sounds plausible.
Less for food stamps and food inflation is not a nice combination.
Just think what the dollar will buy when its reserve status is completely eroded.
In California, everyone got an increase in their allocation in October, then a notification of a federally mandated decrease starting in November. I seriously doubt anyone in California will experience a net decrease.
That’s a puppy I see in that bun, isn’t it?
And standard capcity magazines (30 rounds).
The majority of people I interview are not interested in a job. Mostly because if they have a job they'll lose their other government benefits: Monthly SSI check for life, Section 8 housing allowance, FI (cash money straight to them), day care assistance, gasoline stipend, utility assistance, etc, etc, ad nausem.
That amounts to thousands of dollars per year they lose if they get a good job
Sad but true.
Which brings up the interesting question: How do you compete with Santa Claus?
Actually spread out from the 1st through the 10th in many states.
Some are government pets.
I think it is 5.5% overall but the actual reduction per family is a fixed dollar amount, not a fixed percent. For example, a family of four will receive $39 less, regardless of the benefit amount, so the percentage will vary widely.
Many of the people on food stamps could buy some seeds, and grow their own stuff. Combined with their food stamp money they would have more than they could eat, if they would just learn to do it.
No such worries when every American worker had their paycheck cut on Jan 1. The bums are a different sort of animal though
a wrath of armed guards
Is that like a murder of crows?
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Well, it ain’t no parliament of owls! Very strange — I also thought of “murder of crows” when I read that. Freaky, huh?
“Many of the people on food stamps could buy some seeds, and grow their own stuff.
For sooth, ye must be joshing. Growing food takes effort and knowledge and EBT cards are free money. Yes, ye are touched in the head.
LOL, I do believe food stamps are a source of food price inflation by artificially increasing demand.
They haven’t ‘learned to do’ anything in nearly 5 generations. Why start now?
One of the girls I went to HS with got pg between our 9th and 10th grade years. dropped out, got section 8, food stamps and welfare. Moved in with her cousin who’d done the same thing the previous year. They took turns watching each others kids while the other partied.
She eventually had SIX children, one of whom is a tenant at the local correctional facility. And FIFTEEN grandchildren so far. And, at the tender age of 47 is now a GREAT grandmother. And her entire adult life and the entire lives of all her descendants have been paid for by you and me.
Unsustainable.
Early this past summer, a woman on food stamps planted a tiny garden in her back yard.
THE GOV came in and destroyed her entire garden. THE GOV wants everyone to rely on THE GOV.
Article posted somewhere on FR.
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