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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I am a new member here & I don’t have clue what your past posting history ia here @ FR but I can say in one breath what you have posted is completely true.
>> Anyone else here old enough to remember when being on aid was looked down upon?
Of course, and this can be turned around once folks remember what it’s like to have self-respect through the dignity of labor.
Svengali is losing his charm.
The people in your riot photo aren’t exactly lean or thin, are they...
Remember the Watts riots?
No way to delay that trouble coming every day.
Wednesday I watched the riot...
I seen the cops out on the street
Watched ‘em throwin’ rocks and stuff
And chokin’ in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin’ ‘round
Seen the smoke & fire
And the market burnin’ down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn
Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention - Trouble Every Day
I wouldn’t worry about it, the handle is only a year old.
Welcome to FR!
Actually $36 dollars a month, or 1/8 of the current monthly allotment.
I was the oldest of 6 hungry brats in a dirt poor family. In the 50s, we had pride and people were looked down on if they received charity. The most my mom every received was a couple of blocks of government cheese, We found was to work together and to make life work out.
I remember when the power was shut off, us kids liked it because it was kinda like camping.
LOL... Nowadays, if the power goes out, I just go start a couple of generators and that powers up most everything we need.
I am a long ways from poor and I don’t want to be poor again, but if it turns out that I must be, it will be fine because I know how to survive it and I would find way to have fun with it. I figure that God was with us then, He will be with us again.
How many people have children that are fed both breakfast and lunch at school every day at no cost to them?
You can feed a family of four on $100 a week. It’s not easy and you do have to cook dishes from scratch but it can be done, even with groceries the cost they are now. You can’t buy soda, bottled water, chips and dip or steak but you can have pancakes or oatmeal for breakfast, PB&J or grilled cheese and soup for lunch, beans, rice or potatoes for dinner with meat loaf, lots of pasta dishes with meatballs or chicken. They need to start hitting the dollar stores, clip coupons and actually cook.
And my Dad always said, “Nobody owes you a living, so get back to work”.
Always typically???
They really said always typically happens the same way.
Funny.
Indeed. 2 Thessolonians 3:10
That means there are 24 fewer meals a day per resident! This is Hugh. It’s series.
The problem is that nobody has done anything about jobs. Except for the Federal Reserve that had kept money easy to try to combat the unemployment.
They need to raise the import tariffs and bring industry back to America. It was a mistake to lower them 40 years ago.
Ramen with chickennuggets and spaghetti sauce.
It's not like their taking it from the middle class people who are struggling to feed their own families.
(extreme sarcasm)
A recent IRS inspector general report shows the agency giving out $110 billion to $132 billion in improper ‘Earned Income Tax Credit’ payments in the last decade. In that time period, between 21 and 30 percent of tax credit payments went to people who didn’t qualify for them. That’s 20 Billion per year in fraud right there not counting administration expenses.
A 5 billion cut in SNAP is small potatoes.
They could start by deporting the families that raise sub human savages. They obviously are not civilized and do not belong here!
>> Except for the Federal Reserve that had kept money easy to try to combat the unemployment.
Combating unemployment as it’s measured is idiotic. The only true measures concerning productivity are payroll, revenues, GDP, and entitlement liabilities. Unemployment is meaningless.
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