Posted on 10/28/2013 9:58:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Food stamp recipients face a massive benefit cut set to kick in when stimulus funds expire Friday. The nationwide cut “is equivalent to about 16 meals a month for a family of three,” according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis using the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan.” CBPP called the roughly $5 billion annual cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program “unprecedented” in “depth and breadth.”
“If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,” Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City, told Salon Monday. Purvis said that the looming cut would mean about 76 million meals “that will no longer be on the plates of the poorest families” in NYC alone – a figure that outstrips the total number of meals distributed each year by the Food Bank for New York City, the largest food bank in the country. “There will be an immediate impact,” she said.
“The fact that they’re going to lose what’s basically an entire week’s worth food” each month, said Purvis, “it’s pretty daunting.” She told Salon that while policymakers “are attempting to punish people for being poor,” and “people are comforted by believing that they know that a person has to have done something wrong in order to be poor,” in reality, “I can tell you that more and more folks have more than one job and are still needing help.”(continued)
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“..riots always typically begin the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food...”
It sounds like she is covertly encouraging a riot and almost hoping for it. The set up is to get a majority dependent on the government for food and then cut it back so there are riots and then Hussein can take full power- Alinsky theory at it’s finest.
I was on EBT for the better part of a year. I was ashamed. That said, the ammount we had on EBT was almost twice what we’d normally spend.
“The fact that they’re going to lose what’s basically an entire week’s worth food”
Look at most the people on EBT. They could fast once a month and be fine.
Because, if there is a food stamp riot, all the rioters will be black.
Eleven bucks is sixteen meals for a family of three in NY?!!! How can anybody say things like this and pass the red face test? There is no way anyone in NY can stretch $11 to make 16 meals for 3 people. Hell, I’d think anybody anywhere in the US would be hard pressed to do that...
I think about the ones who had 9 or 10 kids on purpose to collect bennies. That'll be a big chunk and if they start screaming at the baby-daddies (if they know who they are) it could snowball.
I know what the girls in the section 8 do and are going to be doing more of....
World’s oldest profession.
an EBT card has SNAP benefits and other benefits (some cash like welfare or TANF money), so you can actually withdraw cash or pay for non subsidized items.
Perppars’ PING!! This thread and my post #129 this thread.
Hey steve, kudos for your ‘caring’ attitude.
But sadly, the system is grossly abused; these monies, whether weekly or monthly, are most often not due the recipients; and ultimately these ‘compassionate’ funds are the result of redistribution (THEFT).
The number of people today receiving gov’t monies for living purposes now outnumber the number of full time workers.
Cuts? I don’t care. If it were up to me, they would all end. ALL. Food stamps, medicare, Medicaid, welfare, ad nauseum.
Our country was stronger before and without them.
The crowd becomes a riot mob when the first window gets broken - AND NOTHING HAPPENS TO THE ONE THAT BROKE IT.
Let’s see the formula?
How were they surviving before all that stimulus cash came in?
If they riot and are jailed will that help their families?
Should we expect such low standards for the poor that we’d not think to ask them to use the ballot box?
I hope you don't think that they think that far ahead.
Two questions:
1) Is this an actual cut, or a "cut" to projected baseline spending increases which actually means it's just a smaller increase?
2) After you factor in the cut and adjust for inflation, what's the 2014 budget for SNAP relative to the one for, say, 2010? I'll bet that 2014's is considerably higher.
Yeh, I remember when people would rather do almost anything than go apply for government assistance.
And it’s only 5% so how is that a weeks worth?
It’s the “It’s gonnna be a long hot summer” threat. Give us money or we riot.
I most surely am. It was a dreadful disgrace yet even those people on relief were usually engaged in some occupations in an attempt to be self sufficient.
If any one should be riotiing over food prices it is the people who work for a living and actually have to endure the horror show that going to the grocery store has become.
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