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NATIONWIDE ELECTRONIC FOOD STAMP SHUTDOWN REPORTED, COMPUTER SYSTEM UPGRADE BLAMED
The Blaze ^ | Oct. 12, 2013 3:51pm | by Dave Urbanski

Posted on 10/12/2013 2:00:44 PM PDT by Lazamataz

(TheBlaze/AP) — Major problems were reported Saturday all across America with the Electronic Benefits Transfer System, as consumers were stuck with no way to pay at registers, notes WBZ-TV in Boston.

WBZ reported that a computer-system upgrade was to blame, while the Associated Press reports that a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure.

People in Ohio, Michigan and several other states found themselves unable to use their food stamp debit cards while shoppers from Maine to Oklahoma had to abandon baskets of groceries because they couldn’t access their benefits.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ebt; foodlinereplacement; foodstamps; govtshutdown; obamapunishes; operationwhipcracker; wellfare
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61 posted on 10/12/2013 2:32:18 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: steve86

I see a number, finally: 17 states. Not all, of course, but hardly something to minimize. If you aren’t aware, you’re dead. All the gun in the world won’t help you.


62 posted on 10/12/2013 2:33:01 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

@jrsalzman: “Wtf? #EBT is down? I’m poor and need food for my children!” - Sent from my iPhone 5.


63 posted on 10/12/2013 2:33:15 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: 50mm

I removed it.


64 posted on 10/12/2013 2:33:34 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

read the tweets....tweeters are blamin republicans ...meanin the WHut can say glitch w/o bein finger’d


65 posted on 10/12/2013 2:34:01 PM PDT by advertising guy ( if your cell phone is in the front pocket....it wasn't a butt dial..............just sayin)
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To: Lazamataz

The entitlement mentality will lead to some very ugly and very predictable results.

Zero’s counting on it.


66 posted on 10/12/2013 2:34:04 PM PDT by Bullish (The only real solution is to abolish liberal democrats forever)
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To: barmag25

You get even more of the hilarious tweets if you leave out the hash tag. Just ebt.

How sad. Every single one of those people could have, one week, put away some peanut butter, crackers, beans, rice, etc for such emergencies. Even candy bars. Also, they could go buy meat on sale if they had a freezer. Boxes of cereal and almond milk. There are a lot of ways to save for a bad week.


67 posted on 10/12/2013 2:34:11 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Twitter posts I’m seeing (and I’m not a Twitterer, typically) seem to be running ANTI-Ebt card. Most of the comments are mocking the Ebt users.


68 posted on 10/12/2013 2:34:21 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Lazamataz

It was 8 or 9 states and was reported on another thread. Some people were angry but no violence. They were told it would be corrected soon and, according to the place, some were able to get their food without their card or cash. The company running it in those particular states, let the stores do that.

It appears, therefore, as I said to Travis, extrapolating into the future, the first day there may not be riots, but when it isn’t fixed by day two, don’t dare go to a store of any kind, because it will be dangerous to be out in the open. The “not haves” will want whatever you have on you.


69 posted on 10/12/2013 2:34:24 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: NoKoolAidforMe

Bring ‘em on. The revolution has to start sometime.


70 posted on 10/12/2013 2:34:45 PM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: Lazamataz

I saw that article too,notice they say “at least 17 states.”

I saw one persons tweet from WA where their ebt card worked.


71 posted on 10/12/2013 2:35:08 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: 50mm; Lazamataz

Good question...it’s gone from my newsfeed as well.


72 posted on 10/12/2013 2:36:16 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: workerbee

I see a lot of those too. I only go on twitter when something is up, like this. I love how some of the trending issues are anti Obama, and how many people just see through the guy.


73 posted on 10/12/2013 2:36:28 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Tijeras_Slim

‘This week on Iron Chef...’


74 posted on 10/12/2013 2:36:36 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Lazamataz

Got it. Thanks.


75 posted on 10/12/2013 2:36:54 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: Lazamataz

Bookmark


76 posted on 10/12/2013 2:37:43 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: Lazamataz

It affected us here in Pennsylvania too. The store kept going on and on the PA system about it.


77 posted on 10/12/2013 2:38:37 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (I miss you, Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012) It has been a year, rest in peace, pretty girl!)
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To: NoKoolAidforMe
Oh, there’s a way to pay for your food. It’s called cash, debit or credit card. You know, you’re own money. Not mine. Parasites.

I saw a terrific bumper sticker on the back of some tradesman's van a week or so ago-

"Your 'fair share'
IS NOT IN MY WALLET".

78 posted on 10/12/2013 2:38:39 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Gator113

It was every state served by the Xerox program. It went down. It was eight or nine states. Some are back up.


79 posted on 10/12/2013 2:39:01 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Yaelle

Not sure how these are connected but the states I have seen are Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Michigan, Maine, Oklahoma, Virginia, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.


80 posted on 10/12/2013 2:39:05 PM PDT by erlayman
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