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Posted on 11/01/2013 6:28:06 AM PDT by upchuck
U.S. food stamp cuts taking effect Friday are one of two stimulus safety-net programs ending, an economist said. The other is extended unemployment benefits.
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It was a temporary increase in the maximum amount of food stamp benefits people could get monthly as part of Washington's response to the Great Recession.
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Friday's change in the food stamp program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, cuts monthly benefits 13.6 percent -- or, more precisely, ends a 13.6 percent increase in SNAP benefits from the stimulus act.
Benefits to a family of four receiving the maximum amount drop Friday to $632 from $668, the U.S. Agriculture Department says.
The maximum benefits for a single adult fall to $189 from $200.
The cuts leave recipients with an estimated average $1.40 to spend on each meal, the department says, citing its Thrifty Food Plan.
The number of people on food stamps jumped to nearly 48 million in July from about 26 million in 2007, before the recession started, the government said.
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“Paying for the Food Stamp program affects 1 in 2 Americans.”
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I think the reporters are of the same mentality as the entitled receiving the “benefit” -
they SHOULD have all the neat stuff that everyone else has
AND get the benefit.
It’s only people like us, who DO make tradeoffs and purchasing decisions,
that notice that these people DON’T make the same tradeoffs that we have to.
Importantly, because of the Obama depression, there are LOTS of people on food stamps who have never been on food stamps before. Many who were laid off and are unemployed and can’t find work, and whose unemployment has run out. Many who have just lost their health insurance because their rates have jumped, or they were canceled from plans they could barely afford.
Right now, churches and charities that provide food for the poor are strained to the point of breaking.
By far, Obama will go down in US history as a POTUS who hurt more people than were hurt by the Great Depression; and Obama’s emphasis was on hurting the poor and weak most of all.
He will be remembered as a cruel and unfeeling tyrant, along with his mean spirited henchmen and sycophants like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. People who did not care if millions of Americans suffered, as long as they got their way, in following the tenets of their dead and false religion of socialism.
Where was all the weeping, waling and gnashing of teeth when all of us who worked for a living got their taxes raised on January 1? The 2% reduction in FICA taxes which was cancelled meant an extra $100 per month or so in my take home pay.
I just got home from Walmart. The food stamp crowd didn’t seem too upset. The cut was too small to get riots. Some may not even pay attention to the amount loaded on their cards.
I think you’re right. Reporters live in the same fantasy world as many of the “underclass.” “Everything should be free, and personal choices should have no consequences.”
Why is a single adult capable of working getting food stamps at all? Let’em go hungry and maybe they will be motivated to get a damn job.
I suppose that 1 in 7 people receive food stamps talk to the “popularity” of the program judging by how Obamacare is deemed as “popular” because millions are being forced into using it.
That's just over $6 a day, which wouldn't be that difficult.
“And presumably there are other resources such as food banks, charities, churches, etc. before ANY of “their own” money needs to be spent on food.”
I watched a well-dressed “Female Holder’s Person, use Food Stamps for all of her groceries, then pull out some cash to pay for a bottle of Chivas Regal! That’s how this program really works! I don’t deny that some people are genuinely in need, but my bet is that there is a lot of this. BTW, the woman was obese!
Go back to the commodities set up eliminate food stamps entirely.
Then they will probably blame each other for eating too much! LOL
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