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Poor Families Taking a Hit From Government Shutdown (Here It Comes!)
Time Magazine ^ | October 4, 2013 | Maya Rhodan

Posted on 10/05/2013 6:45:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A certain shutdown narrative has become all-too-familiar: It is holding us back from gazing at the National Zoo’s pandas throughout the day and perusing the halls and walkways of our national museums and parks.

But for millions of the nations poor, the situation could soon be far more serious, and simply moving a gate or clicking on a link to another video won’t solve their problems.

Though many of the programs that provide assistance to needy families and individuals like food stamps, Medicaid, and Medicare will continue running during the shutdown, the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is barely holding on.

The nearly $7 billion dollar program that provides access to food, formula, nutritional education, breast-feeding support, and health-care referrals to 9 million poor mothers, babies, and children is having to rely on $125 million in contingency funds from the USDA to continue operating throughout the month.

Douglas Greenaway, the president of the National WIC Association, a D.C. based nonprofit, calls the money a “sneeze” and warns that clinics will be forced to close their doors and end benefits if normal funding doesn’t resume by the end of the month....

(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; mayarhodan; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; shutdown; slimemagazine; timemagazine; welfare
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To: leapfrog0202

Why isn’t the girl’s husband providing for them?


21 posted on 10/05/2013 7:21:14 PM PDT by ladyjane (For the first time in in a long time I am proud of my country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
WHAT?! She was FORCED to enroll in KenyaCare before being seen at an ER?

Isn't that the way it was supposed to be? Don't pay diddley (or pay the fine) until you get sick and then enroll with preexisting?

Problem is you don't get care until you cough up the money. Gonna be a buncha PO-ed people when they get the flu this winter.

22 posted on 10/05/2013 7:21:15 PM PDT by Boojum
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To: ladyjane

Bingo, that is the CORRECT answer!


23 posted on 10/05/2013 7:24:02 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: ladyjane

In the middle of a divorce and they haven’t had their mediation yet to settle all that stuff.


24 posted on 10/05/2013 7:25:38 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WHAT?! She was FORCED to enroll in KenyaCare before being seen at an ER?


Yep. She was told her Medicaid had been cut off. Now whether it was due to the shutdown or what she wasn’t told. I guess if she’d been dying they might not have made her but since it was an ear infection they did.

They called the ER because urgent care said the same thing & I know illegals get treated at ERs without insurance so I told my friend to take her to an ER. Evidently since illegals are allowed to sign up for Zerocare, they’ll get the same answer in the future, who knows?


25 posted on 10/05/2013 7:28:09 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d be pretty pi$$ed if I was poor and saw all these resources and effort being wasted in closing the ocean.


26 posted on 10/05/2013 7:28:58 PM PDT by Toespi
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27 posted on 10/05/2013 7:31:02 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: leapfrog0202

Thank goodness my wife has insurance through her company and I have the V.A., minimal though it is.


28 posted on 10/05/2013 7:32:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. Partisan Media Shills ping.

Shame on GOP states doing everything they can to hurt the poor (Alan Colmes, nuff said)
Fox | 10/5/13 | Alan Colmes
Posted on 10/05/2013 4:45:23 PM PDT by workerbee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3075425/posts


29 posted on 10/05/2013 7:33:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Haven’t the democraps won the war on poverty YET?

They’ve been waging this “War On Poverty” for 30 years!!!—The truth IS, the dems NEED the poor to STAY poor to USE as political pawns.

Too bad the poor don’t realize this.


30 posted on 10/05/2013 7:41:11 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Mortrey

If they did “realize” it, most wouldn’t care, I’m afraid. They just want to sit back, chillax and get stuff for free. One once told me “work is for mules and fools.”


31 posted on 10/05/2013 7:45:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Agreed! I carried our insurance and about a year before I was laid off I got worried because my company was laying off fairly regularly, maybe 3 people from our department every 4 - 6 months, but we had a small department of about 50.

So I made my husband get insurance from his job too and I’m glad I did because I was laid off almost a year to the day he picked up insurance. Too frightening being without.


32 posted on 10/05/2013 7:54:05 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: leapfrog0202
I told my friend to send her to an ER because they have to treat everyone regardless of if they can pay.

I believe that WAS true - under the old evil medical care system where anyone could be treated free at an emergency room. I don't believe it's true anymore.

33 posted on 10/05/2013 7:57:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (Brieitbart sent me... Freeper newfreep)
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To: GOPJ

I believe that WAS true - under the old evil medical care system where anyone could be treated free at an emergency room. I don’t believe it’s true anymore.


You’re right. That’s exactly what she found out.


34 posted on 10/05/2013 8:06:04 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Poor Families Taking a Hit From Government Shutdown...all the more reason for Reid and Obama to stop the stonewalling and pass the CR resolutions already sent over from the House - along with the provisions they include which would provide individual citizens with the same privileges under Obamacare enjoyed by big business 'rat cronies and congress, the president, and their staff - a move which Obama today called "partisanship".....
35 posted on 10/05/2013 9:13:11 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People should never allow themselves to become dependent on the taxpayers and the government for their survival. It’s a stupid move.


36 posted on 10/05/2013 10:12:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DemocRAT Pahtay! Spending our grandchildren's future, today!)
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To: Henry Hnyellar

Move over poor people. Another week of this Obama shutdown and we’ll be poor too.

Can I have some of your cheese? How about your EBT card? Your Obamaphone? Your free tuition. Free gas. Not having to pay taxes.

Oh, I wanna be poor and Obama is going “to make it happen”, just as he promised.

Brother can you spare a dime?


37 posted on 10/06/2013 1:24:01 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another “nonprofit” scam.


38 posted on 10/06/2013 1:27:25 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: leapfrog0202

Think of the young mother with a sick child who doesn’t have someone who can bail her out by buying ObamaCare... We’re going to have deaths in the country because of ObamaCare - but the suck up press won’t cover it - - doesn’t help their team.


39 posted on 10/06/2013 5:15:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (Brieitbart sent me... Freeper newfreep)
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To: GOPJ

Think of the young mother with a sick child who doesn’t have someone who can bail her out by buying ObamaCare... We’re going to have deaths in the country because of ObamaCare - but the suck up press won’t cover it - - doesn’t help their team.


You’re so right. Thank goodness my friend could help her daughter and that it was an ear infection and not a hot appendix or something.


40 posted on 10/06/2013 5:25:26 AM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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