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  • Don’t Forget the Other Entitlement Monsters

    11/11/2013 1:14:34 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 5 replies
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | November 8, 2013 | Bruce Thornton
    The continuing attention devoted to the blunders, incompetence, and lies surrounding the Obamacare rollout is much deserved. But we shouldn’t forget that the President’s health-care monstrosity is merely the latest and biggest of scores of government entitlement programs suffering from the same flawed progressive assumption––that government “experts” armed with coercive power alone can solve problems better left to the states, civil society, and the free market. In reality, such programs relentlessly metastasize, increasing as well fraud, waste, abuse, and costs. One such program is SNAP, the kinder and gentler name for what we used to call food stamps. Apparently the...
  • Too much of too little [Food stamps fuel poor diet, illness]

    11/10/2013 4:30:29 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 103 replies
    New York Times ^ | November 9, 2013 | Eli Saslow
    McAllen, Tex. — They were already running late for a doctor’s appointment, but first the Salas family hurried into their kitchen for another breakfast paid for by the federal government. The 4-year-old grabbed a bag of cheddar-flavored potato chips and a granola bar. The 9-year-old filled a bowl with sugary cereal and then gulped down chocolate milk. Their mother, Blanca, arrived at the refrigerator and reached into the drawer where she stored the insulin needed to treat her diabetes. She filled a needle with fluid and injected it into her stomach with a practiced jab.“Let’s go,” she told the children,...
  • Why is socialism winning?

    11/09/2013 1:32:21 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 101 replies
    Nolan Chart Blog ^ | November 8, 2013 | Mark Vogl
    How are they doing it? How are the Liberals winning, forcing their social agenda on America and winning elections despite an economy that employs only 60 million of more than 300 million and has 48 million on food stamps? How do they keep winning when the nation is 17 trillion in debt and their policies are destroying the health care system? It is almost more generally accepted than global warming that the American economy is default. The most recent article on Nolan Chart asks the question "Do you want to boost our economy?" Though extremely brief in substance, the article...
  • Louisiana Suspends EBT Cards for Food Stamp Cheats

    11/08/2013 3:11:02 PM PST · by virgil283 · 18 replies
    "....Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal's office will cancel food stamp benefits for anyone who participated in a fraud and shopping spree catalyzed by an EBT malfunction....More than 12,000 people were sent an insufficient funds notice when the problem with the EBT cards was fixed on Oct. 12; those who transgressed may lose their EBT cards for a year....On October 11-12, at least 17 states experienced problems with their EBT card systems. In Springhill and Mansfield, Louisiana, cards indicated they had no spending limits, so EBT holders went wild with purchases..... The stores that were cheated are bound to come up with...
  • After last month’s shopping frenzy, Louisiana governor looks to strip food stamps from abusers

    11/07/2013 12:08:04 PM PST · by topher · 52 replies
    FoxNews.com ^ | 11-7-2013 | FoxNews
    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.
  • Surprise: ObamaCare will likely increase food stamp enrollment

    11/06/2013 10:42:52 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 43 replies
    Hot Air ^ | 8:41 am on November 6, 2013 | by Morgen Richmond
    Once all of the new ObamaCare mandates, regulations, and taxes are fully priced into the healthcare market we may all be lining up for government butter and cheese, but that’s not the story here. No, apparently the multi-million dollar ObamaCare marketing campaign signing up new Medicaid recipients by the millions will come with an unexpected bonus for fans of the entitlement state. Lots and lots of people finding out for the first time that in addition to free healthcare they are also eligible for a shiny new EBT card. Via Politico. The Obama administration has ordered a study to determine...
  • Food Stamp Fraud: Beneficiaries Illegally Sell EBT Cards On Craigslist, Social Media Sites

    11/04/2013 10:39:16 PM PST · by detective · 42 replies
    CBS News ^ | November 3, 2013 | Nick Janes
    It’s a welfare fraud scheme costing U.S. taxpayers $750 million a year. People are illegally selling their electronic food stamp cards on Craigslist and other social media sites for cash. CBS13 found two people here in Sacramento, both with the same idea, using Craigslist as free advertising to blatantly and illegally sell their state benefits. Our hidden cameras were rolling as a woman, who we’ll call Lorie, told our undercover producer about her brilliant idea to game the system for a quick buck. “Everyone said I was crazy, but I thought they’d say, ‘that’s freaking brilliant, man,’ ” she said....
  • Bankrupting America: Or, Gorbachev’s revenge

    11/03/2013 1:17:32 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 14 replies
    The Daily Interlake ^ | November 2, 2013 | Frank Miele
    It is a well-known fact that Ronald Reagan’s military buildup in the 1980s was largely intended to force the Soviet Union to spend money it didn’t have on weapons it didn’t need. The goal? Bankrupting the Soviet Union and freeing millions of people from the confines of communist totalitarianism. There were other components of that strategy, including the lesser-known plan to flood the market with Mideast oil in order to bring the price down so that the Soviet Union could not depend on profits from its huge oil and gas reserves to keep up with the cost of military expansion....
  • Try living on food stamps this month

    11/02/2013 6:10:41 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 270 replies
    The Columbian ^ | November 2, 2013 | Staff
    Can you feed yourself on $4.50 a day? That’s the typical daily benefit for someone who gets food stamps. Millions of low-income Americans are dependent on the program, which is called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, for some if not all of their food money. SNAP benefits have just been reduced slightly, with the sunset of an economic-stimulus addition, and will likely be cut more by Congress before the year is through. Here in Clark County, Share and the Clark County Food Bank are inviting the community to get a sense of life on that kind of budget by...
  • New Yorkers brace to lose $36 in food stamps each month

    11/01/2013 9:06:48 AM PDT · by jimbo123 · 78 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | 10/31/13 | JOSEPH STRAW
    Nearly 2 million New Yorkers who rely on food stamps will have less to spend at the supermarket starting Friday — and it may only be the beginning. The average family of four on food stamps is expected to lose $36 each month, according to the Department of Agriculture, because funding added to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program in 2009 under the federal stimulus program ran out Thursday.
  • Our family will lose $44 in food stamps

    11/01/2013 9:16:03 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 286 replies
    CNN Money ^ | November 1, 2013 | Jennifer Liberto
    Starting Friday, Joyce Lewis and her family will lose $44 from their monthly food stamp benefits. The food stamps buy a lot of economical rice-based meals for the family -- four adults and a grandson who live with Lewis in Spring Hill, Florida. Occasionally, when her grocery store is running a deal, Lewis indulges the family with spare ribs or chicken. The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month. "When I get to the end, we always run out. I try to go to all the food pantries," Lewis said....
  • Food Stamp Cuts Affect 1 in 7 Americans

    11/01/2013 6:28:06 AM PDT · by upchuck · 54 replies
    Brietbart/UPI ^ | Fri, Nov 1, 2013
    U.S. food stamp cuts taking effect Friday are one of two stimulus safety-net programs ending, an economist said. The other is extended unemployment benefits. ... It was a temporary increase in the maximum amount of food stamp benefits people could get monthly as part of Washington's response to the Great Recession. ... Friday's change in the food stamp program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, cuts monthly benefits 13.6 percent -- or, more precisely, ends a 13.6 percent increase in SNAP benefits from the stimulus act. Benefits to a family of four receiving the maximum amount...
  • Millions on food stamps facing benefits cuts

    10/31/2013 6:25:45 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 178 replies
    CBS News ^ | October 31, 2013 | By Alain Sherter
    It is late October, so Adrianne Flowers is out of money to buy food for her family. That is no surprise. Feeding five kids is expensive, and the roughly $600 in food stamps she gets from the federal government never lasts the whole month. "I'm barely making it," said the 31-year-old Washington, D.C., native and single mother. Starting Friday, the money is likely to run out even quicker. That is when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits are set to fall for more than 47 million lower-income people -- 1 in 7 Americans -- most of whom live in...
  • America’s new hunger crisis

    10/31/2013 1:41:45 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 41 replies
    MSNBC's All In with Chris hayes ^ | October 30, 2013 | Ned Resnikoff
    In the 22 years that Swami Durga Das has managed New York’s River Fund Food Pantry, he has never seen hunger like this. Each Saturday, hundreds of hungry people descend on the pantry’s headquarters, an unassuming house on a residential block. The first people arrive around 2 am, forming a line that will wrap around the block before Das even opens his doors. “Each week there’s new people,” Das told MSNBC.com. “The numbers have just skyrocketed.” The new clients are diverse—working people, seniors, single mothers—but many of them share something in common: they represent the millions of Americans who fell...
  • California Beach Bum Living Off Food Stamps For Years

    10/29/2013 7:48:14 PM PDT · by Marie · 18 replies
    You Tube ^ | 9 August, 2013 | Dylan
    Here's an enlightening video from Fox News profiling the life of a California food stamp user. They (rightfully) explain how Obama took away the food stamp restrictions and this allow able-bodied adults without children to get free food on our dime.
  • Many PD plans to post pics of EBT glitch theft suspects online (Louisiana Food Stamp fraud)

    10/29/2013 2:26:50 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 14 replies
    KSLA-TV ^ | October 22, 2013 | Staff
    (VIDEO-AT-LINK)Walmart shoppers in Many who may have taken advantage of last week's EBT glitch might soon find their faces posted online. In addition to the mega-retailer's Springhill and Mansfield locations in Louisiana, the store in Many saw customers filling up carts with goods paid for on EBT cards that weren't showing limits. The glitch only lasted for about 2 hours on the night of October 12, but it was long enough to create chaos in stores that opted not to set an emergency limit for the EBT SNAP card holders. According to the Many Police Department Facebook Page, "The MPD...
  • Milk Could Skyrocket To $8 A Gallon If Farm Bill Not Passed

    10/29/2013 7:00:50 AM PDT · by rickmichaels · 118 replies
    CBS ^ | October 28, 2013
    The fight over renewing the nation’s farm bill has centered on cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. But there could be unintended consequences if no agreement is reached: higher milk prices. Members of the House and Senate are scheduled to begin long-awaited negotiations on the five-year, roughly $500 billion bill this week. If they don’t finish it, dairy supports could expire at the end of the year and send the price of a gallon of milk skyward. KLTV reports that the price of milk could reach $8 a gallon. “We are pretty much at the mercy of the...
  • ‘Riots always begin typically the same way’: food stamp shutdown looms Friday

    10/28/2013 9:58:53 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 231 replies
    Salon ^ | October 28, 2013 | Josh Eidelson
    Food stamp recipients face a massive benefit cut set to kick in when stimulus funds expire Friday. The nationwide cut “is equivalent to about 16 meals a month for a family of three,” according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis using the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan.” CBPP called the roughly $5 billion annual cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program “unprecedented” in “depth and breadth.” “If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,” Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New...
  • Barackalypse Now: Slavery is Legal Again and Food Stamp Zombies Want All Your Candy

    10/27/2013 5:41:42 AM PDT · by IChing · 46 replies
    ClashDaily.com ^ | 10/27/13 | Donald Joy
    Trick or treat!! The word, according to Neil Cavuto, is that the gazillions of food stamp recipients across the land are to have their “benefits” reduced as of November 1st, and that the Department of Homeland Security is gearing up for widespread riots. Such wonders abound in our neo-socialist dystopia of “hope & change.” For the past several years, the Obama administration has aggressively sought to solidify and expand the democrat party’s grip on power by encouraging as many people as they possibly can to sign up for food stamps and other government programs, to make dependency on government a...
  • Nation headed over ‘food stamp cliff’

    10/26/2013 3:31:25 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 45 replies
    The Hill ^ | October 26, 2013 | Erik Wasson
    Millions of people are in for a shock at the end of the week when their food stamp benefits will be cut across the board. There is little chance that Congress will act to avert what hunger activists call the “food stamp cliff” — a cut to benefits that will affect some 47 million beneficiaries, including children and the elderly. The cut takes effect on Nov. 1, and will bring an end to a funding increase that Democrats wrapped into President Obama’s 2009 stimulus law. For a family of four, the cut will be $36 per month, or about 20...