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Schumer Shutdown Threatens 42 Million Americans on Food Stamps on November 1
Economic Collapse Report ^ | 10/23/2025 | Jacob Dashiell

Posted on 10/24/2025 3:40:36 AM PDT by Adder

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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

They are going to steal thanksgiving dinner. This video collection is a hoot

https://x.com/AmiriKing/status/1980783288248856901


41 posted on 10/24/2025 5:35:16 AM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: Right Republican

Minimum wage is entry level...high school part time job.

Also, most states have a minimum wage that far exceeds the federal minimum wage. Arizona minimum wage is almost $15 per hour. California minimum wage is around $20 per hour.

But I agree with you - the requirements for food stamps are loose and sloppy. Also, it is open to abuse. Folks on food stamps can live high on the hog instead of eating a lot of rice and beans. The WIC (unwed mothers) program used to confine purchases to peanut butter, milk, cereal and even designated which brand juice the recipients could purchase.


42 posted on 10/24/2025 5:37:14 AM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly)
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To: albie

WTF are 42 million Americans doing sponging on welfare?!


That’s the story line that this article SHOULD be focusing on.

Kick the illegals off and out.

Make the rest get jobs.


43 posted on 10/24/2025 5:38:50 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: albie
It doesn’t come down to minimum wage. It’s people that don’t want to work.

this

also why I do not give money to the bums on the corners

44 posted on 10/24/2025 5:39:29 AM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly)
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To: Adder
"Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Fox Business that she believes 20 to 30 percent of the program’s annual funding, estimated at roughly $200 billion, may be lost to fraud after announcing a $66 million scheme was uncovered."

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$200 billion X 30% = $60 billion in fraud.

44 million recipients X 30% = 12.6 million fraudulent cases.

Schumer claims the shutdown is to protect the ACA. I thought the ACA would "more than pay for itself", and "trim federal budget deficits by some $210 billion over the ten years ending in 2021" link, so what is he fighting for in the budget?

45 posted on 10/24/2025 5:45:09 AM PDT by Dan Zachary
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To: Adder

Maybe the Chunkster can sponsor a raw cheeseburger cookout in front of his office to help keep the starving children in Africa from starving to death when the local chieftains demand their cut of so-called USAID pallets of money dropped on the “DARK” continent.


46 posted on 10/24/2025 5:45:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Little Booby Garcia, the Peruvian homo gunslinger is going to get a lot of Americans killed.)
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To: Adder

“This is gamesmanship that prioritizes D.C. score-settling over the basic needs of working households.”

If they’re working why can’t they pay for their groceries?


47 posted on 10/24/2025 5:59:35 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: Ann Archy

And most of them are obese. Cutting SNAP would be good for their health.


48 posted on 10/24/2025 6:01:58 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: Lockbox

Yes well Thune needs to get his own rear end in gear. He can pass the CR Nuclear and deal with the fall out later. If some RINOs don’t want to do it nuclear then their refusal to vote for it will unmask them. If it goes 50 votes, Vance can break the tie.


49 posted on 10/24/2025 6:24:01 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Adder

And, a lot of them stated they’ll just steal whatever they want and don’t try to stop them or else. They might “go across your neck!”. If ya know what I mean.....🙄


50 posted on 10/24/2025 6:36:35 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Adder

Please let this happen!

Obese SNAP takers should have a few days of fasting.


51 posted on 10/24/2025 6:40:09 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
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To: Adder

42M SNAP / 330M people in America = 13%.

Coincidence?

I don’t think so!


52 posted on 10/24/2025 6:42:06 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
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To: Buttons12

Well I guess your state must be exempt from federal guidelines for SNAP benefits.


53 posted on 10/24/2025 6:52:31 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

I wouldn’t know about that, my comment was about shopping days when you can tell someone’s ship came in.


54 posted on 10/24/2025 6:56:31 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: rockabyebaby

Yes they are and blaming Trump.

A worse scenario I have heard is that people will be robbed of their groceries in the parking lots...

Ferals gonna feral. Buts going to come down to FAFO...


55 posted on 10/24/2025 6:57:57 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Adder

The GOP or Trump Admin should offer to pay for free flour, oil. beans, rice, milk, cheese, and some veggies ONLY at food pantries...on Nov 1st.


56 posted on 10/24/2025 7:11:41 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: Adder

The Dems are lost, no policy solutions that garner majority support of voters so they need to burn the place down including their very own constituents to get them angry enough to go to the polls this November and cast their reliably predicable Democrat line votes.


57 posted on 10/24/2025 7:17:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: maddog55

The local welfare office secretary quit after crunching the numbers proving they got more than she did working 40 hr/week.

I’ve kept up with the freebie programs for decades and this working family’s food budget has always been 1/3 what they get and that’s not including their non food perks. If we eat just fine on so much less, then they certainly could, too. Thing is, it isn’t really a have to budget, it is just what it is.

Someone, please explain why the kids get 180 free school breakfasts, 180 free school lunches, sometimes an afternoon snack, a box of food sent home for the weekend on the backpack program and summer lunches for ages 0-21 at various locations around the district for convenience BUT none of that is deducted from SNAP. The food bank “hauls” (despise that word) don’t get deducted nor do what churches and other charities hand out. Sure smells like double, triple, quadruple dipping. It’s no wonder they’ve been selling their food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar for generations.


58 posted on 10/24/2025 7:21:34 AM PDT by bgill
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To: HIDEK6

A Houston, TX state representative, black woman, has gone too far saying basically to slice necks. Should have arrested her but can’t touch them.


59 posted on 10/24/2025 7:26:47 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Wilderness Conservative

That little old lady with her cart of groceries might be a 2A believer.


60 posted on 10/24/2025 7:28:32 AM PDT by bgill
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