I would say tell ‘em to get a job, but then we’ve had to pay them to move to china.
When the stores are fully looted, they’ll come to our homes.
And I’ll be waiting for them.
Having nothing on the shelves will cause the riot.
This sentence is rather off-putting. Exactly what kind of eggs are they referring to?
I believe Walmart has to take the lead and stop taking food stamps.
20,000 in North Carolina? There are more people on food stamps in my town. That doesn’t sound right, at all.
It wouldn't matter to the lamestream "news" media if the House passed a funding bill for SNAP. The Senate Dems would refuse to consider it and blame the Repubs for poor people going hungry, knowing the media would follow their DNC talking points and publish stories blaming the the Repubs.
The media also wouldn't blame the USDA who, I'm sure, could prioritize their budget and keep the "free" food money flowing (considering only 17% of the gub'mint was shut down...).
Probably all orchestrated by the Zero King and his merry band of court jesters to create panic. Nothing like keeping an "enemy" in front of the people, someone to "blame" for whatever is wrong. When does the Two Minute Hate start?
This program will never, ever be cut. Grocery chains, the big food processors and the ag lobby all love it even more than Obama’s peeps do.
all part of the plan.
I really believe it was a trial run.
What this entitlement bunch doesn’t realize is that their President has lowered them into slavery. They are slaves to the government tit. It is so sad what has happened to our country and it’s work ethic.
I thought people gave their long hair to http://locksoflove.org/ for cancer patients. I never knew they sold it and for $$$$$. Guess there’s money to be made on everything these days. Anyone want to buy some crusty toenail clippings? Ack, no, the government would want to run DNA testing on them.
I got a call from adult kiddo yesterday and we spent an hour talking about the shutdown hoo haw. They agreed when I tried to caution them about having food on hand but I’m sure that’s as far as it went. I’ll try to reiterate before the holidays when I suspect we’ll have another planned crisis designed to make things difficult for the little people.
Not that we can afford to go anywhere for the holidays, but I’m bugging in and away from whatever is coming down the pike for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Let the cities take the first wave of rioting EBTers as it’ll be a while before they get here.
The individual states could immediately stop any possibility of food stamp riots by buying surplus crops from farmers, which benefits the farmers, then distributing the surplus to food stamp recipients.
If they really wanted to sweeten the deal, instead of using the federal cards, they could issue state cards, so no matter what happened to the federal system, food could still be distributed to the poor, uninterrupted by Washington’s petulance.
And the way to do this is through existing organizations that feed the poor. They already have the infrastructure and the personnel to distribute the food as needed.
All told, it would cost the states far less than the federal program, and though it wouldn’t provide the food diversity of using retail grocery stores, it would still forestall a sudden, huge number of hungry and dangerous people.
guard your pantries and freezers, the Huns are coming for your goods.
The biggest problems will be in predominantly black communities, before they start spreading out. When the stores are looted, they will invade restaurants, homes and neighborhoods. The hatred for whites, orientals and Hispanics will explode worse than it is now.
But...but...but THAT'S RACISSST!
When you don’t have a job government benefits go a long way, especially if you have subsidized housing, and a host of other benefits. The total of the benefits can be more than you get in a real job.
If you have a real job, your salary is not yours. Every level of government has its hands in it. You don’t get to keep it all.
So $20,000 of government benefits is real money. a job paying $20,000 is nothing.
1) Immediate, sudden cutoff, resulting in widespread unrest (if that is what is desired).
2) Gradual draw-down, as prerequisites are tightened, better fraud-control is instituted to detect those who are collecting food-stamp money that shouldn't, and gradual reduction in benefit level.