Posted on 12/28/2017 4:29:33 PM PST by bgill
Guillory calculates the average SNAP benefit of $270.22 monthly will go down $6.50 to $263.72. “But at the same time the client will be receiving about $20 more per month from their other program benefits,” Guillory said. “Overall they’re better off. Their income has to go up for their SNAP benefits to go down.”... SNAP cost the federal government $71 billion in 2016. Of that amount about $1.4 billion was spent in Louisiana. About a quarter of all Louisiana households receive food stamps.
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Funny, our gov. working income never got an increase for the last 8 years or more and our gov. retirement income hasn't had an increase in 9 years. If this keeps up, we'll be eligible for gov. freebies before long. But, hey, it's for the poor womenz and chilluns.
If benefits go down, the stamps will barter less meth.
I’ve always supported the “two-percent solution” to balance the budget and restore fiscal sanity. Quite simply, all entitlements would be reduced by 2% annually, an amount every person on public assistance can absorb gradually. If someone is receiving $100 a month in food stamps, a $2 reduction amounts to a large bag of potato chips a month.
Also, all government agencies and programs not authorized by Article 1, Section 8, would also be subject to the two-percent solution. It isn’t drastic or immediate. This would be accompanied by personnel attrition, wherein employees at these agencies who retire, resign, or pass on are not replaced.
Don’t hold your breath.
In the supermarket the other day we waited in line behind a woman with a shopping cart loaded to the limit.
We only had a few things - we had passed by the tomatoes at $3.59 a pound and the ground beef at 4.29 a pound.
It became obvious the woman in front of us could not speak English as the checkout clerk had to converse with her in Spanish.
She emptied her cart of steaks, roasts, tomatoes and other veggies and fruits, butter, etc.
Her bill came to $173. of which $167. was food stamp eligible, We know this because it is displayed on the readout screen at the checkout. She paid the $167. with an EBT card and scrounged up the $5. balance in cash.
I figured out that the reason we could not afford the tomatoes at $3.59 a pound was because we had just helped her buy several pounds of them.
I don’t totally blame her - I blame the politicians we elect to represent us who then decide to represent foreigners who have no business being here if they can’t pay their own way.
I experienced that hundreds of times before escaping Mexifornia.
but i do blame them - they know they are stealing from the US. and refusing to assimilate. If they really have no clue, we certainly don’t need to import mentally disabled parasites.
Ironic...Louisiana has the highest rate of obesity in the nation.
I am in line with EBTers all the time. This is NOT the way the system should run. The “safety net” should ALWAYS be the LAST resort especially coming from government.
Rush has always said the USA has the richest poor people in the world. I would add that our poor are the fattest anywhere.
Holy shiite!
I'd be eating steak every night.
Let's also remember that's for each family member. 2yr old baby and 90 yrs old Grandma.
Guaranteed the kids get fed 1-2-3x at school too.
Here in PA a single mother with 5 kids would need a job making $62,500 to equal what she gets on welfare.
Impoverished, my a$$.
You should see how much they get in free healthcare.
Healthcare, housing subsidies, EIC, working under the table, welfare, food stamps, education for numerous kids, free college for those kids...yup, they cost us a fortune. Plus steal our jobs, our places in college, commit crimes, destroy our culture...
We escaped Mexifornia and couldn’t be happier. But if the invasion isn’t stopped, no place will seem like the U.S.
I blame the politicians we elect to represent us who then decide to represent foreigners who have no business being here if they can’t pay their own way.
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They pay their way by voting democrat.
I’m all for helping those in need, but it infuriates me to watch people stockpiling on foods I can’t afford at the end of the month.
I have an older cousin whose hubby left her a few years ago. She lost the house, lost the car, and had to move into a tiny senior living apartment. For the first time in her life she applied for, and got, food stamps. She said she had never ate better in her life.
And lobster.
While the rest of us TAXPAYERS shop for sales and boil down the holiday turkey (bought cheap) carcass for soup next month.
KWYM. Something is wrong when ground beef breaks the budget.
“But if the invasion isn’t stopped, no place will seem like the U.S.”
Bingo!
Just did make soup from the turkey carcass! Good.
Yep. And it’s supposed to be SUPPLEMENTAL.
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