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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yeah - I just worry that I’m being too harsh... then I think like I would have at that age and start cleaning the weapons ;)
Sorry folks wrong thread.
I had neighbors who had to go on food stamps temporarily years and years ago. They were so embarrassed that they shopped at off hours so no one would see them.
If we could get back to the shame days, it would help.
Our niece who is a senior in college tells of a guy in her class that asked her why she had a job. She said she was married and needed to pay for college. She said this guy is from some foreign country and his dad is high up in the government there making a lot of $$$. Because the guy was seen as putting himself through school without a job he got EBT and some other welfare type things. He told her she was a fool for working. What a pathetic statement on where this country is. Kudos to our niece though who told him his attitude sucked and that she felt there was honor in earning your own way in the world.
One of my problems is that I have a whole lot of really old recipes which call for a certain size package or can of something. So I end up having to buy two and using on part of the second one. I would rather they would leave the size the same and just charge me more which they are already doing but it is for less contents.
Quit buying tuna a long time ago.
Yes - toilet tissue is another whole issue. Single, double or triple roll, single or double ply, or “the equivalent of a double roll”. You have to take a calculator with you to be able to compare. What I’ve found though are a number of on-line sites where you can buy in bulk, there is no delivery fee and often no sales tax. Plus most of them have a really great price break for first time buyers. So I’ve done that with tp, paper towels, dishwashing and laundry soap and the other bulky heavy things like kitty litter and dry cat food. I have managed to accumulate at least a year’s supply at a greatly reduced price.
I hear Subway has gone up to $6-7 for their sandwiches here. McDonald’s came out over the weekend that the $1 menu is no more and now it’s a “$5 value” menu. Sonic’s $1 little jr. burger is now $1.30. As you say, add on chips and a drink, whew. This taxpayer can’t afford those prices but there’s “EBT” signs on their windows.
I like Schlotzsky’s sandwiches but couldn’t justify the price for one for many years. I recently found the recipe online. I can make 4 of their sandwiches for what 1 costs at the drive thru. My family laughs at me for being so excited about it that I tell everyone the recipe. I’ve since tweeked it with a 1/4 C more flour to squeeze out an even 6 buns. Hey, with a little effort, I can now pretend to live high like the EBT crowd!
#16 for the Schlotzsky’s recipe. It reads long but is super easy:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3023748/posts?q=1&;page=1
You don’t have to cook every day. I usually prepare two different meals each with 3 or 4 servings and eat during the week. I have a sweet tooth so instead of cookies and cakes, I indulge in dried fruit such as apricots, dates, raisins and Marianni prunes.
The food cooked at home is actually tastier, has much less sodium or sugar, and I know what exactly is in it.
Today's large eggs are the size of yesterday's small eggs so I usually add an extra one in a baking recipe.
Dinner is on the cheap tonight with on sale cheap store brand sausage and omelets filled with homegrown veggies. We've been having that for dinner a lot this summer but may have to go with beans and cornbread when the garden stops in about 3 weeks. It's good eats so not complaining about that but it irks because of the economy.
I’ll be over for dinner. Love omelets. Never figured out why the eggs are smaller, even the largest ones are not as large. Can understand manufacturers who are filling cans and boxes but chickens? Grew up on a farm but just can’t figure that one out. Eggs should be eggs.
Thanks for the recipe! We too love Schlotzsky’s :-)
True. And it's only about 5%, not 25%/ Talk of people starving or rioting is hysterical overreaction.
It is essential to clearly understand that there are people in the world who have totally surrendered to evil. 100%. They have chosen evil.
They are ruled by greed, lust and anger; revenge, envy and hatred are their constant companions.
Such people are human only in appearance, and even then, their faces and expressions often reveal their inner consciousness.
Trust such people to be “like me and my friends and relatives” and the mistake may very well be fatal.
They truly don’t and that is a common theme among the poor and criminals as well. Impatience and the need for immediate gratification are a major cause of failure, poverty and foolishness. Hasn’t God warned us against that?
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