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Gov. Abbott Announces Additional Food Stamp Benefits, Despite Labor Shortage
Texas Scorecard ^ | January 5, 2022 | Brandon Waltens

Posted on 01/08/2022 12:50:19 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx

"“Thanks to the USDA for their continued collaboration with HHSC to provide healthy meals to Texans across the state,” said Abbott.

Despite businesses across Texas struggling to find employees to staff open positions, Gov. Greg Abbott has announced that Texas will once again dole out even more additional food stamp funds in light of the COVID emergency declared in March of 2020.

In an announcement Wednesday, Abbott said the Texas Health and Human Services Commission will distribute more than $307 million in emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in January, to be given to more than 1.5 million Texas households.

While SNAP is a federal program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, its administration is left to the states. Funds are put on a Lone Star Card, which looks and operates like a debit card, to make approved food purchases. ..."

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1 posted on 01/08/2022 12:50:19 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Stop giving the lazy mice free cheese. Make them work for it, just as they rest of us are doing. I like working. It keeps me busy and out of trouble AND I don’t need to worry about bills.


2 posted on 01/08/2022 12:50:35 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Maybe if we all just went into stores, took what we wanted and left without paying things would change.


3 posted on 01/08/2022 1:24:10 AM PST by Singermom
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Why not? We hold the record on percentage of population being obese. The unemployed have the highest percentage obese. Watch people using EBT cards.


4 posted on 01/08/2022 1:47:52 AM PST by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

A Friend owns a company and is trying to hire someone for data entry. He’s offering 40k and no experience necessary. Every applicant wants 50k+. This is what happens when you hand out free money.


5 posted on 01/08/2022 1:51:32 AM PST by albie
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Psychiatrists should study politicians with Santa Claus complexes.


6 posted on 01/08/2022 3:05:54 AM PST by FES0844
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To: albie

The younger me would’ve jumped at that, hell if for some reason I lost my job and that opportunity popped up I’d jump on it.


7 posted on 01/08/2022 3:59:01 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Hunger is great motivation to work.

Stop feeding the deadbeats for free and they’ll haul their lazy butts off the couch and get a job. There are plenty available.


8 posted on 01/08/2022 4:19:32 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

The true Abbott shows himself again.


9 posted on 01/08/2022 4:25:38 AM PST by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx
to provide healthy meals to Texans across the state,

Pretending like welfare recipients buy vegetables and healthy food. We've all seen their grocery carts and the size of their asses.

10 posted on 01/08/2022 4:48:24 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: metmom
Hunger is great motivation to work.

There has not been real hunger in America for decades. There is free food everywhere even in New York City.

11 posted on 01/08/2022 4:59:14 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: metmom
Stop feeding the deadbeats for free and they’ll haul their lazy butts off the couch and get a job.

"Of the 3.4 million married-couple families receiving SNAP benefits, 84% had at least one worker. Nearly half (49%) had two or more workers."

12 posted on 01/08/2022 5:42:48 AM PST by semimojo
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

This is moronic.

By the way, I get the impression that welfare workers tend to be blacks who will approve any able-bodied Black person for benefits. They are destroying themselves at our expense.


13 posted on 01/08/2022 5:48:58 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: BozoTexino

yep


14 posted on 01/08/2022 7:14:52 AM PST by Irenic ( )
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Well stated!

I love to work as well, it helps me sleep good! lol


15 posted on 01/08/2022 7:45:44 AM PST by waterhill (Banned.video Its not a conspiracy theory, its a spoiler alert. )
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To: SmokingJoe

I tried to take some canned goods to the local food bank before Christmas. They said they were full up and would not take them. *(I should have grabbed a box from them for myself)/s.

Why go to a food bank for healthy food when uncle sugar gives you ding dongs/junk food?


16 posted on 01/08/2022 7:55:14 AM PST by waterhill (Banned.video Its not a conspiracy theory, its a spoiler alert. )
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Stop giving the lazy mice free cheese

Indeed to get the food stamps every able bodied person can the load off the tax payer by.
Road crews to remove trash clean parks........................


17 posted on 01/08/2022 9:30:07 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

No way am I voting for Abbott in the Primary.


18 posted on 01/08/2022 9:31:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Singermom

I agree! Seriously, how come it’s ok for gangs of blacks to do it why can’t an old guy like me do the same?

This morning I went food shopping at my local supermarket and bought just a few essentials , bread, milk, etc., a piece of bottom round and some chop meat and I splurged on some ice cream for my wife.

The bill: $107.47. Why did I even have to pay? Why couldn’t I just take what I wanted?

Thanks Sleepy Joe.


19 posted on 01/08/2022 12:57:41 PM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: jmacusa

Didn’t you watch that Eddie Murphy skit? Don’t you know white people give each other stuff for free?


20 posted on 01/08/2022 12:59:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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