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You know, FReepers, we look at strange events at borders and on planes as being “test runs”.

This event in Atlanta could be a test run to see what will happen in the cities, to see if shutting off benefits can be used as a social tool to effect the “total transformation of America” Obama promised us, and in some ways a warning message- “Push us too far and we’ll cut food stamp, EBT, WIC, and Section 8 benefits. We’ll be in our walled compounds with perimeter patrols and you’ll be out there in the Zombie Apocalypse”.

The manager there said some of these people may have had their benefits cut off by mistake.

Here's another way that can happen ~ particularly where you have the county welfare office affiliated with the food stamps office with the Medicaid office (different people but same building or complex so that you have a one-stop service situation).

It just so happens I was involved in whacking the welfare benefits of 1/2 of the then recipients ~ in the entire United States. We did it in less than a month!

There's an old welfare rule established in the Roosevelt Regime ~ if you are a welfare recipient and you submit a CHANGE OF ADDRESS ORDER with the Post office (then Post Office Department, now USPS) you must come in to a CASE WORKER for a review of your eligibility ~ in the meantime your benefits are CUT OFF.

We were implementing Move Update ~ a regulation that required folks mailing presort rate First Class Mail to have their mailing lists brought up to date in accordance with the Change of Address Orders filed by delivery customers.

Well ~ guess what ~ there were hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients who'd relocated.

BTW, the fact that a welfare recipient moves was in Roosevelts day and is today the first indicator that they no longer qualify for welfare!

The first time a welfare list was updated with a MoveUpdate file half the cases got dropped.

I was there.

EVERYBODY went "hey, hey, hey ~ look at that".,

Word spread fast.

Congress took the credit ~ but WE KNOW it wasn't Congress!

Now, for why those ladies were down at that office ~ they wanted to see a CASE WORKER ~ and the case worker was on leave, or their own personal case worker had been furloughed (temporarily laid off, or given one day a week off, unpaid).

This is an ordinary situation and the people called in for a case review (or who ignored the notice and just didn't appear until the benefits dried up) will always lay the blame on the bureaucracy for making a mistake.

Maybe not. The lady with the 16 kids or whatever may have run out of kids to claim. The lady with her medicaid claim may have been cured of her cancer. We don't really know. At the same time the guy running the office there seems both unperturbed (they hire people for that job who can do that) and yet totally clueless about what happened.

Somebody else in that office knows what happened ~ SOMEONE MOVED and the gravy train stops until they prove their eligibility.