Posted on 04/04/2016 6:41:09 AM PDT by kevcol
MADISON COUNTY, MS (Mississippi News Now) - Thousands of Mississippians receiving food stamp benefits no longer qualify for them under new government requirements.
The new policy requires that single people between the ages of 18 and 49 who are able to work put in at least 20 or more hours on the job, volunteer, or enroll in a job-training program. While many folks admit they are not happy about this change, Food banks are bracing for the large number of low income families in need.
"I thought it was rude and mean," said Mary Riley Walker.
"You say if we don't have job you are going to take our food stamps, but if we get a job you are still going to cut our food stamps," said a snap recipient.
These two Jackson women who receive Snap Benefits didn't hold back their anger when talking about the new policy that went into effect April 1st.
Since this policy change only applies to adults without dependents, why would food banks be expecting an increase in the number of families in need? I guess they need to drum up sympathy and outrage somehow.
Think Social Security into which many of us have paid our entire lives. At some point, it is 100% certain there will be means testing, and those of us who paid into it won't even have the marginal benefit of getting even money borrowed or printed to pay for Social Security.
How they gonna get their soda pop, potato chips, and candy bars?
Being dependent breeds resentment which turns into anger.
These food stamp recipients feel entitled to free food and feel you owe them even more.
Don’t know about that.
Geez Mary thinks it tooooo much to ask of her to volunteer 20 hours a week?!?!
Ms ping
Dang Kenton, you know full well that those are not the designs or the goals of the programs. It eats me up to see the BS repeated. The intended designs and goals are working as perfectly as planned. What I never expected was to see the weak-minded outnumber the Freedom lovers.
FReegards, houeto.
Thanks for the ping WKB.
On Valentine’s Day there were big signs in Rite Aid and CVS saying that they accepted food stamps to buy boxes of candy.
That is wrong.
***”You say if we don’t have job you are going to take our food stamps, but if we get a job you are still going to cut our food stamps,” ***
Yeah, then you can struggle to buy your own damn food, like myself and a lot of other Mississippians.
Now, if they’d only do something about the illegal Mexicans stealing food in huge amounts at Wal-Mart on Friday night’s with OUR SNAP cards then I would feel a lot better.
No wonder you don’t receive many if you require the resume be FAXed. How many individuals have a FAX machine now? I have one only because the scanner happens to have FAX capability but have never used it.
People who are serious about looking for a job will figure out how to gain access to a fax. All the local Office Depot and Staples stores have them, as do hundreds of local mail service companies, FedEx, etc. Actually our clients all fax all their documents to us, either by regular fax or efax. In the part of the business world we work in faxing is alive and well, as are people who actually answer the phone personally from a land line and work with desktop computers.
Your business contacts FAXing inter-business are one thing but very few unemployed individuals are going to shell out the cash at an office supply store to FAX a resume when the chance of a job offer from any one application is near nil. I would do that only if I already had a contact inside and a warm, fuzzy feeling about the prospect. e-FAX is a possibility but way outside mainstream recruitment methods.
Having to fax a resume is enough to keep those simply going through the phone book looking for company names to list so they can continue drawing benefits of some kind without making any real effort to find a job. We generally hire people we know or those that are known to one of our current employees. Often we do find a very good prospect among those that do go to the extra effort required to fax us their resume.
We are not hiring rocket scientists but primarily administrative staff. They have to be able to write and exhibit their ability in the areas of grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. A lot of the resumes we receive look like they were put together by a third grader. I would expect the methods and standards for professional recruiters are different but ours works for us.
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