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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Last weekend I took boxfulls of food to four needy families. They were all in PJs or loungewear - at 3PM. ‘nuf said.
yes.
both stores are interesting and carry some things you won’t find elsewhere.
but Trader Joe’s prices are often quite reasonable.
indeed, on some thing TJ’s is cheaper than the big supermarkets that advertise their ‘low prices’
TJ is really quite different from Whole Paycheck
Trader Joes does have the best Kettle Popcorn Ive had in a long time..2 bucks a bag, which I think is reasonable considering how much you get..but I was there last week and you dont realize how much you’ve spent til your actually at the checkout line..guess its like that with any store..but seeing people paying with EBT cards was a shock, they can go anywhere, Ralphs, Vons, etc, but they choose to go to an expensive store and pack their carts with expensive meat..then they stroll to their luxury cars, they are not poor..they are just cheating the system, and the fraud here in LA is huge, with all the illegals cashing in, but these people shopping at Whole Foods were not illegal, they were white and apparently very proud that they are getting “Free” govt goodies
well, we find Trader Joe’s to have pretty reasonable prices on much of its stuff.
They also have some good breads, and cheese there can be cheaper than big groceries.
I don’t think TJ qualifies as a really “expensive” store. At least, I haven’t seen much of anything there that I’ve had to toss back on the shelf for being too expensive.
I do agree that prices on almost everything, everywhere have gone up up up these last 3 or 4 years.
ps: We went to one of the giant chain supermarkets and its prices were pretty decent overall, too. But, their delicatessan puts NON-SALE-PRICE stickers on stuff and they tell you not to worry that the register will catch it and charge only the sale price. BUT the register did not catch it and we got charged the wrong, higher regular price instead.
Also, they gave us a $5 discount coupon but the register did not deduct it. We had to call the store manager over on these items (since the total loss was about $14)... and he went to his computer by his office and in about ten minutes was able to give us a corrected bill.
BUT YOU GOTTA WATCH this outfit! All these errors were in favor of the dealer, or store. No mistakes in favor of the customers. Just saying...
The reason food prices are rising much faster than the background rate of inflation is that the gubmint is injecting this free money into the system. It’s the same reason that health care costs are up, and education.
The gubmint handing out free money is the root cause.
Back in the late 1970’s we used to buy groceries every other week for our family of four which included two active teenagers. Always had two carts crammed full, never spent more than $200 and we ate well, breakfast and dinner at home and everybody took their lunch.
Now when you spend $200 you don’t even have one cart full, unless you’re buying toilet tissue, paper towels, washing powder or kitty litter.
What aggravates me most of all is that all the cans and boxes are smaller and they are not even anywhere near full.
“Good commentary on behavior the media calls “cultural” but is really nothing more than feral scumbags acting out their hate for anything non-black.”
I don’t know much about blacks, but I am reasonably sure they hate themselves too. They don’t like themselves and strike out against others because of it. A lot of them want to date white or asians too.
Printing more and more money for Obama voters (like this) or (dumb voters like this).....Obama is Rasputin reincarnated for dumbed down,kept on the plantation American Negro. That is a fact the Politically Correct try not/will not to talk about.
I agree. It is however still only meant to supplement the food purchases. It should not cover all the cost of food.
I got mad last year about the tuna cans and measured them out. It was just a few years ago that tuna went from being 7.5 oz to 5 oz a small can. They have more water in them now days, too. By the time you've drained it, you're down around 2 oz meat. Walmart's site shows a 4 pack at $3.88. People still swear tuna is cheap. Really? That's nearly $8/lb. Don't get me started on toilet paper, not 1 lb coffee, not 5 lb sugar, not 1 lb bacon, not 1 lb cookies, not gallon of ice cream, etc.
I think they meant a cut by a week of food . . . per year.
Cooking from real ingredients? Ain't nobody got time for that.
“Time to learn to budget then.”
Tell that to the US Congress. They have not passed a budget in five years.
I suspect the contrast is between decent people who are on welfare because of a genuine need and crooks who are on welfare for the free money while they hide their real cash income. The criminals have a stash of tax-free money to supplement what they can buy with the EBT card.
Well, if those are the only 2 options you can think of. Around here the local LEOs will still help you not the perp.
That was one of the rationale used for the EBT. Looks jus' like a debit card. No more embarrassment. In fact, now you can get on your Obamaphone and call all your deadbeat friends on their Obamaphones and tell 'em they's no limits on da EBT...c'mon down to Wal-Mart...Uncle Sugar's buyin'.
Poach an egg in it.
In NM, AZ and CA that I personally know of. When we were in NE this last week, our family there was shocked to hear of it so I’m assuming that fast food doesn’t take EBT in NE -—yet.
People could easily shave money off their monthly food costs if they are using EBT at restaurants of any sort. Even a $4 Subway sandwich adds up by adding a drink and chips, same as McDonald’s $1 menu.
Trader Joes prices are actually very good if you stick with their Trader Joes brand and that brand is pretty decent quality. Here in NM that actually give Wal-Mart a run for their money if you leave out organics and things like that.
http://www.kprcradio.com/pages/waltonandjohnson.html?article=11759391
Found this parody of ABC by the Jackson 5 on Twitter, posted by a DJ from KPRC radio. Pretty good!
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