Some disagreements, but freepers all at least agree that non-citizens and those abusing the system need to be taken off the rolls.
“Congress Slaps Work Requirements on Food Aid For Youth Exiting Foster Care”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/4349535/posts
“SNAP is everything,” Saro told Military.com. “Without SNAP, we would go hungry. We would not eat. We would not have food on the table. The boys would not have what they need.”
“I try not to let the boys see the struggle,” Saro said. “They lost their mother. I want them to focus on school. I want their lives to feel normal.”
would someone please help this guy out.
How does he pay his cellphone bill? His cable or satellite dish bill?
Many seniors and disabled vets will suffer in November, while the hood rats who sell their SNAP cards for 25c on the $ will just loot stores anyway. Congress is pathetic.
This is the trap set by the rats. Good, deserving people get hurt because they are put in the same boat as the illegal gimme dats.
Disabled vets should get all the help they need! If they need SNAP they should have a gold card, they have earned it!
“That is how disabled U.S. Navy veteran Juan Saro described a life without the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP”. I don’t know how disabled this man is, but if he can’t work, and he served the USofA, I’d help him with my tax dollars...I only got so much, but I’ve found that there is always someone who has less than me.
“More than 20,000 military families, 213,000 National Guard and Reserve members, and more than 1 million veterans, rely on such benefits”
Military families should not have to get Food Stamps to survive. Give them what they need.
But Goobermint has cash for Illegals?
This shiiite has to stop.
Schumer wants to starve disabled veterans.
I fed my family when I joined in 1980 as an E3. I didn’t need SNAP or handouts. Wasn’t prime rib or lobster but we did ok till I got out in 1990. Then I did significantly better.
Confusing article since Social Security payments, SSI, and VA disability payments are not affected during the shutdown.
And why do our soldiers get poverty pay such that they need this? That’s the real scandal.
Confusing article since Social Security payments, SSI, and VA disability payments are not affected during the shutdown. SNAP certainly is affected.
I thought military pay had been increased to the point where military families did not need to rely on food stamps and other public relief to live. If not, it should be.
Read an article today from Freighwaves, that Trump’s English-proficiency and testing requirements for foreign truck drivers could remove up to 600,000
“non domiciled commercial drivers license” (ie. illegal migrants given licenses) from the total driver pool - that’s as much as 17% of all truck drivers in the USA.
So just to understand - we have 42 million SNAP receivers in the USA
But we have 600K illegals - in just one industry, trucking - suppressing wages and taking jobs.
Who benefits from this absurd arrangement, the social chaos, and the massive government debt being created????
Nobody wants to live on rice and beans for long, but in an emergency Walmart sells a 20 pound bag of rice for $11.14 and a 20 pound bag of Pinto beans for $14.94.
Walmart peanut butter,2-4 pound jars $12.94 and 4-30 ounce jars of jelly for $9.84 and 6 loaves of bread for $8.52, 4-42 ounce boxes of oatmeal for $16.72, 8 pounds of sugar for $6.14.
For $80.14 one has a base survival food box that kids or any adult will choke down for a few weeks, consisting of 2-4 pound jars of peanut butter, 4-30 ounce jars of jelly, 6 loaves of bread, 20 pounds of rice, and 20 pounds of pinto beans, 11 pounds of oatmeal and 8 pounds of sugar.
Throw in what one has at home and a few dollars to flesh out that survival diet, and a woman and a couple of kids, or a couple, can hang on while this sorts itself out.
Thinking people can do much better than this basic Walmart example, but this list would work for even simple minded households.
Thank you for posting this. Not everyone on SNAP is defrauding the system. Some good people really do need it.
My November VA check is already in the bank.
However the majority group of curmudgeons would deny all such aid to everybody because it would save a lot of money and make them even more smug indeed.
Eliminate illegals. Eliminate luxury items soda and Halloween type candy. How about baby diapers they are not covered.