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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Relief was a temporary situation. Today, it's a generational lifestyle.
This taxpayer can't afford to eat out so someone please explain why I'm giving my hard earned dollar for others to eat out? Food stamps used to be only for specific real food items. They weren't allowed to be spent on junk food.
The purse was valued at $400, her wallet was valued at $200, and she said there was $800 cash in the purse, according to the police report. Also missing were the woman’s food stamp cards."
It's food banks that allow for this type of corruption. Food stamps are sold - pennies on the dollar while food is supplied by food banks. It's an established scam that also feeds the drug industry in inner cities. Ever wonder how poor people can afford $200 a day drug habits? Stealing only supplies so much - the rest comes from Uncle Sam... (yes, money's fungible)
EBTs can be used at fast foods and restaurants in TX.
I wrote a letter to the editor offering sympathy for the grandparents, but not for the subsequent generations. Other readers were not amused. I was accused of being racist, hateful, heartless and so on.
Well, if the food stamp/public assistance system collapses under the strain, they will have no one to blame but themselves. The goose is running out of golden eggs.
You’re not a spring chicken, either. Can you believe we are likely going back to the time of our parents/grandparents? I visited grandparents in Arkansas and they had no power at all - used oil lamps and wood stoves. I have the old “pie safe” from grandmother’s kitchen and “wash stand” that was in a bedroom where the big pitcher of water and basin was with doors to cabinet underneath where wash clothes/soap/towels were kept.
As I prepared, I used my knowledge of how they lived to develop my own if power went away. There was a point I gave up grieving over the demise of this country and prepared to live as well as I can without power.
I think I’m going to give up responding to these replies on both SNAP and OBAMACARE. Driving me nuts.
The cut is a FIXED AMOUNT, $36 PER MONTH IN THE CASE OF A FAMILY OF FOUR.
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3899
The overall program cut is $5 billion (correction).
THE $187 IS PER MONTH PER FAMILY NOT PER WEEK NOT PER PERSON FOR THE FAMILY OF FOUR I KNOW.
/byeFRfornow
I recall.
Yes, it did..Here we go..
No, it is per family of four, per month for the family for which I am a guardian for. Believe me, I know. Other families with lower income would get more.
Ten years ago, I frequented a frugal site where we'd challenge to feed a family of 4 for $20/week. For many it was a full time on going challenge. Nothing wrong with eating oatmeal, beans and cornbread or stuffed potatoes. That $20 budget is today's economy's $100.
Our one grocery store doesn’t accept coupons. We don’t get coupons with the newspaper.
I think I officially quit being a spring chicken this coming Friday. ;>)
It is quite amazing that we are returning to some of those tough times, but thanks to what the greatest generation taught us, we will survive, kinda survive.
What truly kills me is that most of the hardships facing this country, never needed to happen.
If I could live long enough, I would spit in the devils eye and laugh as he is sent back into the pits of hell.
I think times are going to get very tough, soon, but us tough old folks will get by.... I wonder what will come after the storm?
At least the headline wasn’t - Usually Riots Always Begin Typically the Same Way Which is Expected to Happen Again.
What we don’t appreciate is how these people have learned to go batshit crazy when they don’t get what they want (however stupid/damaging/irrational), because others will do anything to make them stop. Easy to mumble “F ‘em” ... until you have to interact with them, and they get you into a corner of either consenting or doing something illegal (and they WILL get you arrested).
As another just said: the riot starts when someone breaks a window without consequences. When it’s your window, they’re giving you the choice of either bribing them to stop or getting arrested for fighting back.
Massive = $30 per month.
No kidding. I heard it on the local news today as well, with the same adjective - ‘massive’. Then they spelled it out - $30 per month per family on the welfare.
I know someone who went on foodstamps because they had been laid off work and just had a baby. She was embarrassed and waited to apply until they were down it being a must have for the baby. Within a month, her husband had a job so they were fine. When she tried to get off the program, they wouldn’t let her and said she had to stay on it for six months.
The difference is that our “poor” are fat. These people could stop eating and get by on reserves for a long time. The Arabs and French in example were in fact starving to death.
I don’t say that about “fat” flippantly. I’ve gotten by fine before without eating at all for two straight weeks (wasn’t fat, but did have enough to spare). I’ve eaten little for the last month (sore tooth) and am doing fine. One morbidly obese guy told a doctor (to wit “you can’t talk me out of it, so you may as well study me”) he was going to lose the fat by not eating at all for a YEAR - and did, with few effects.
Whole Foods is super expensive. I was surprised to see people there with EBT cards filling their carts..guess they had one of those unlimited EBT cards LOL..my Mom shops there for the organic chicken and milk..so sometimes I tag along, you look at the cart and dont think it will cost much but when you go into that checkout line you find out you spent 80 bucks and your like “What the hell” total rip off..but they are propping up in LA like crazy, seems like every corner has a Trader Joes or a Whole Foods
If they’d watch just three episodes of “Hardcore Pawn” they’d understand your point, I think.
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