Posted on 11/28/2013 7:34:33 PM PST by Libloather
Food pantries and food banks struggled to meet demand this Thanksgiving, just weeks after food stamp cuts for millions of Americans took effect.
On Nov. 1, the 47 million people who rely on food stamps — also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — saw a decrease in benefits when Congress allowed a 2009 program funding boost to expire. As a result, a family of four will receive $36 less in food stamps in November and each month thereafter, according to the USDA.
“All of our food banks have really ratcheted up what they have had to serve,” said Ross Fraser, media relations director at Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks that serve 61,000 food pantries across the nation. In 2010, Feeding America determined that 37 million Americans turn to food pantries each year.
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Don’t make me president, then. I’d cut them off about 20 minutes after being sworn-in. Charity should be voluntary. PERIOD.
36?
that makes or breaks Thanksgiving?
Give me a break
I would be filling out the executive order as I was being sworn in.
36 dollar cut for a family of 4.
a family of 4 is getting between 600 and 800 a month.
so that means instead of getting 800 you now have to scrape by on 764, well excuse me. I have had years where I had to cut a lot more than that.
and, I wasn’t taking other peoples money to do it.
Well then, I’ll be your vice president...
Normally I donate a turkey to the food pantry every thanksgiving.
I did not do so this year.
Times are to tough to be charitable.
I imagine millions of normally charitable people are tightening their belts.
Thanks for the good times Hussein!
“36?
that makes or breaks Thanksgiving?”
Sure, that’s 9 bottles less of Ripple!
But the “cut” was the ending of a temporary increase, part of the stimulus.
So in that short a time, there were some who became dependent on the slight increase.
They have no idea how petty they sound.
Since most of these bastards love to mock God, then they should pound sand and let their belief in Evolution take it’s course: Survival of the fittest.
From the immense amount of adipose stored on the steatopygic buttocks of Obama welfare clients - you know, the ones all too often seen waddling down the food isles of Walmart, a cut in food funding would be a good deed.
I think it’s less than that in most states. When they say the cut is $36 a month, are they talking for each person?
The people who know the ropes most likely get their staples and regular food from the food banks, leaving their food stamp money for steak, lobster, and snacks.
The problem with the multiplicity of programs is that, individually, they seem small. But somebody who knows about ALL the programs and registers for ALL the benefits, can live quite well.p
But you will only find out about all the programs, and get the help for correctly doing the forms, if you are on good terms with your Democrat precinct captain.
$36 a month less a month is not a hardship. i would cut it more.
end of a temporary increase from “stimulus”
technically not a cut
How about rice and beans?
Same scenario, same template, same premise. Nothing has changed except for the leftists doing it. Guilt, guilt, guilt.
“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”
William Butler Yeats
I’d estimate that roughly seven out of every ten food stamp users whom I encounter in supermarket checkout lines are buying food that I can’t afford and most of those are driving away in cars I can’t afford either. Go figure.
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