The EBT cards will never go blank, because no money actually needs to be in the account to give them a balance. Also, it would point blame and anger at the government.
However, after a cycle or two of not being paid, or being paid pennies on the dollar, retailers will cease accepting them.
The EBT cards will never go blank, because no money actually needs to be in the account to give them a balance. Also, it would point blame and anger at the government.
However, after a cycle or two of not being paid, or being paid pennies on the dollar, retailers will cease accepting them.
Interestingly, this is almost precisely the same scenario that I have been envisioning.
Also, I know very, very few shooters/hunters that only own one rifle. This country has millions of armories.
So precisely what bureaucratic or political misfire will result in cutting off food stamps? The article is too long, too suppositional, too theoretical and too paranoid to bear any semblance to reality.
Slaves do not revolt. They demand the return of their meagre sustenance. The public dole requires subservience as the first step to receiving benefits. The Democrat party has been clear about this since slavery. They continue to act on the same set of premises: maintain poverty among enslaved classes by denying benefits to recipients who seek to be self supporting.
Inner city ghettos exist by design and intent. Government programs sustain and perpetuate poverty ridden ghettos. They are the backbone of the democrat party. As a political tool the racism perpetuated by the democrat party is profoundly successful and profoundly immoral.
There may be flash mobs but only so long as government and the media look the other way. Gang bangers are not freedom fighters. They are criminal punks who do what they can get away with. There is no sense in which ghetto riots are a rising up of an indignant people seeking the dignity of taking care of their families and communities. It they were they would have risen up when welfare started.
This essay is largely bunk, a scare tactic screed from the right based on a superficial understanding of the political realities of poverty.
The ghetto will end overnight when government stops enforcing its existence.
Another lesson from Somalia, besides gangs trying to hijack food relief supplies, is that even in hell-holes, they will still have cell phones. Even today, in Somalia, you can make calls and send texts. Or in Afghanistan, for that matter.