Posted on 11/07/2013 12:08:04 PM PST by topher
The Louisiana governor's office said Wednesday night that it would strip food stamp benefits from anyone who took advantage of an EBT card malfunction that in some cases caused an all-out shopping frenzy in some stores across the state, The Advocate reported.
It is unclear how many recipients stand in line to lose benefits for a year, but more than 12,000 received an insufficient funds notice when the EBT card system was corrected on Oct.12, the report said.
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there is video (store surveillance)
Farming is different. Going way back, because of the high risk nature of farming, farmers tended to extreme collectivism. A good example is the far left Minnesota Farmer-Labor party, which is the Democrat party in that state, now called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.
As a rule of thumb, the best outcome for a given farmer would be to have a bumper crop on his land, and for every other farmer’s crops to die. This tends to mess up your head if you like your neighbors, which farmers tend to do.
But back to overproduction. During the Dust Bowl, when tens of thousands of farms were wiped out from Texas to the Canadian border, there was still overproduction in the unaffected farms, more than the country could tolerate. Then, at the start of the Great Depression, Americans were hit with severe *deflation*, which made the situation ridiculously worse.
A saying of the time was that you could buy a pound of hamburger for a nickel, but nobody had any nickels. There was nothing ironic about this, it stated a fact.
Again, outside the Dust Bowl region, farmers had abundant crops, that were worthless. Wheat was 25 cents a bushel, and corn was being burned for fuel. It cost more to transport to market than it was worth.
At the same time, Americans away from the farms were starving, both because food was not getting to market, and nobody could afford it if it did get to market.
For one of his first acts, FDR created the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation (FSRC), an utterly authoritarian agency. One of its first acts was to stabilize food prices by sending federal agents, backed by armed deputies, to farms all over the country, to seize and destroy surplus crops. Their first priority was to kill six million pigs from the decentralized pork industry.
Often they would go to a farm, destroy all its harvested crops, then tell the farmers they were now out of business as farmers, so to move to the city. Eventually they seized some crops, without paying for them, and sent them to city soup kitchens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Surplus_Relief_Corporation
To say that the FSRC was murderously hated is an understatement. It was merged into other New Deal agriculture organizations and ceased to exist, but since that time, US agriculture has effectively been in a national socialist model, that is insanely expensive, but radically different from typical capitalist models.
A transition back to a capitalist model would also be very traumatic to farmers, even to agribusiness corporations, as well as consumers, so would have to be done with a huge amount of planning and preparation, in a plan that would take decades to implement.
“...both African-Americans - had fraudulent grades made at Southern University (mostly African-American university). ...”
They were born in Africa? When did they immigrate here???
/sarc
I did not correlate their rah-rah USA schtick with the Made In China reality. Great point. I don’t shop there anyway. Have you seen peopleofwalmart.com?
“...For one of his first acts, FDR created the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation (FSRC), an utterly authoritarian agency. One of its first acts was to stabilize food prices by sending federal agents, backed by armed deputies, to farms all over the country, to seize and destroy surplus crops. Their first priority was to kill six million pigs from the decentralized pork industry....”
Gee... almost kinda sorta like the Russian communists did to the Ukrainian Kulaks (farmers) in the 1920s...
nah... just coincidence...
But wait... it gets better.... none other than Henry A. Wallace, openly and radically Socialist, and FDR’s Vice President, was the FSRC’s Director.
Now, WHERE do you supposes a Good Socialist goes to get ideas on how to forcibly “collectivize” recalcitrant farmers???
Nah... again, only coincidence...
After all, I mean, these are DEMOCRATS, not communists, and as we ALL know, “democrats are for the little guy”...
uh huh..
I use it for that reason.
Although I get what you’re saying, I never use it. It’s divisive, and intentionally so. Same with “Native” American... “Hispanic” American, etc., etc.
I’m a “no-hyphen” American.
The country has been intentionally split along color/racial lines, and using the language of the leftards just continues.
Not criticizing you, just pointing something out.
“What we were doing in this country were some of
the things that were being done in Russia and even
some of the things that were being done under
Hitler in Germany. But we were doing them in an
orderly way.”
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The United States Constitution is pre-modern,
cumbersome, and open to corruption. It prevents
the government from meeting the country’s needs
by enumerating rights that the government may
not infringe.” — President Woodrow Wilson
I don't disagree, but I don't think this needs more discussion...
In terms of the debate on the Washington Redskins, suppose Atlanta had a term, and it was initially called The Atlanta Slaves. Then, since slavery was over, they used the term, Blackskins.
The problem with Indian is that this reflects the mistake of Columbus - he did not discover a route to the Indies and India, but a route to a New World. Maybe it could have and should have been called North and South Columbia after Columbus.
Bobby Jindal is of Indian ancestry - his family came from India. There are other people in Louisiana that came from the Coctow tribe or other tribes.
Using the word Indian for both of these are confusing.
RE Wilson and FDR:
Good little Bolsheviks, weren’t they... Just a simple matter of the wrong people being in charge, you see.
Never mind the 200+ million dead because of that ideology.
They’ll get it right THIS time.... or maybe next time... or the time after that...
Might take another 200 or so million, but hey... Comrade Stalin said it best - you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, right?
We “eggs”, however, disagree this time...
Strongly.
“It appears that these people will be made an example of.”
Calling these animals “people” is being far too generous.
“...As long as you don’t use the word colored...”
No offense, topher, but I’m pretty much of the mindset that I’ll use any word that I see fit to describe anything, anyone, at anytime.
When we become afraid of words, we let the other side rule the debate and define what is and isn’t acceptable. Hence the absolute TERROR of some folks at the word “racist”.
To me, THAT’S unacceptable. We either stand up and speak our mind, or squat down and be good little PC geldings.
Not an option.
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