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Posted on 04/03/2016 7:30:10 AM PDT by kevcol
About 45 million people receive benefits in the food stamp program, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning research and advocacy group, estimates that 500,000 to 1 million people will lose benefits this year.
The federal Food and Nutrition Service said many adults would need to take steps to meet work requirements or risk losing aid.
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Ellen M. Vollinger, legal director of the Food Research and Action Center, an advocacy group, noted that the poet T.S. Eliot had described April as "the cruelest month," and for people losing SNAP benefits, she said, that description is appropriate.
"Many thousands of jobless adults without dependents will lose all their SNAP benefits even though they are seeking work," she said.
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Well when you have a $600 cell phone you should not be getting food stamps. I dont and my phone is over six years old. So old in fact I had a hard time finding a charger the other day.
Granted you may have had the phone before you got into the trouble you are in now. But just a short while ago I saw a young man with no physical problems buy fudge pops with a food stamps card then get into a Honda cube that was brand new. Much much nicer than my van was.
Does this guy deserve to take the labor of someone who is working. Hell no he does not. He needs to grow up and support himself.
I see it all the time when I go to the store. People on food stamps dressed better than I can afford buying food that I cant afford. This needs to stop.
This article is about people who are able to work with no one to support getting food stamps. We need to stop this. Sometimes the best help someone can get is no help. Teach them that there is respect and pride in even doing the lowest job and working your way up. Looking back with pride on how far you have come. The key is you. Not someone else supporting you.
What, don't you know that illegals are ineligible for food stamps? OK, I had a lot of trouble typing that BS liberal line. It's funny how those that say that completely ignore the fact that illegals absolutely receive food stamps and other benefits through their anchor babies!
I know a guy whose wife worked at a benefits center. Her job was to notify people they were no longer eligible for benefits. Needless to say, she got a bunch of “inner city” people who were not happy at all, and thought it was HER fault they were being taken off food stamps eligibility. She’s a small white woman. She quit after a short while — it was not worth it.
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Btw, you have no clue it that was his vehicle, if it were a relatives car, a friends, his mother's car, or if it were stolen.
I can assure you the majority of folks on welfare/food stamps are not purchasing brand news cars. The big problem with food stamps/welfare is millions of foreign nationals and illegal aliens are choking the system off. Just like the hospitals, other social services, et al.
It's imperative, the borders must be secured and government's endless reckless chain immigration needs to end.
I’m surprised there is no reduction in SNAP if the family is getting free breakfasts and lunches as school and, increasingly, daycares.
You ought to see the school in CA. Most in those schools are not even from the United States.
It’s imperative, the borders must be secured and government’s endless reckless chain immigration needs to end.
This is not complex.
They DON'T want a JOB.. just some MONEY!
It would be far better to ferret out fraud and ineligible recipients before cutting benefits across the board to a group of people many of whom actually are eligible and in dire need.
Just take all the illegals off and its a win.
Sure but how about all the people who pull up to the drive threw at my wife work. She works in a pharmacy. They are on medicaid and drive some of the nicest cars you have ever seen.
I once rented a apartment while I had to work in another state than my family. The building that my apartment faced had a guy on welfare. Every night he would turn on what looked to be a 72 inch flat screen TV.
You are right that it might not have been his car but that still does not get rid of the fact that he was maybe 22 and buying fudge pops with a EBT card.
This article is about people who are single and can work but are not. If this is true they should not be collecting benefits. They need to look out for themselves and not taking from the labor of others.
If someone is truly in need I as well as others would have no problem helping I am sure. The point is that it is my choice to help. I do not force my neighbor to give to someone else. Who am I to say how much of a slave he or she should be. In essence that is what welfare is. You enslave the workers and take their wages.
That phone will work but most of the people I see with EBT cards have I phones.
BS
Now, that's a novel idea.........
I have given example after example of where I see waste. You have not listed one that I can recall. I could just as easily reversed the argument on you. From what I gather from you is that you believe there is no fraud and that everyone on food stamps deserves them. This is what your BS statement means.
I dont really care what you think of me or my argument. What I have seen is what I have seen.
Here is another good example of what I support. After Katrina hit I went to Mississippi to help by volunteering.
I ran roofing crews. This one lady screamed at me that I had to fix her roof. Her roof was brand new. I mean it was put on with in 2 months. She claimed she needed a new roof because the roof was soft. And it was but not because it was bad. It was just that the plywood was at its max span.
She was irate that I would not redo her roof and called my base camp. They agreed with me when I told them about it. We did not have a unlimited bud get and had to use what we had wisely.
At this time a young man came over and asked if we could help him get shingles to fix his roof. He said he would do the work himself. I went over and looked at his house. It was raining in the living room and he had 2 small kids in diapers living there.
Needless to say we helped him do his roof. We them helped him fix the inside of his home as well. Them we went down the street and helped a 89 year old lady who he lead us to.
My point is this was all because people wanted to help others. We choose who to help based on need not on some group of people or some other random reason. And we did not force someone else to pay for it.
BS.
Believe what you will. I dont really care. Why dont you head over to the Huffington post. Seems like you might fit in there better sport.
If the west coast states were to implement this, the farmers, agcorps, and illegals would go into full blown rebellion. People just don’t realize how much of the agricultural industry workforce is subsidized by welfare benefits to illegals. When you post want ads for farm workers in spanish, in mexico, and pay coyotes to bus them up from mexico, and instruct them on how to collect welfare while here, while paying them far less than minimum wage, legal workers have a serious problem.
And spare me the “it’s the lazy gen-x/millenials fault” BS. They learned this behavior from their parents, the same parents who are currently looting all of the equity out of the US economy, and leaving one hell of a bar tab for the next several generations to cover.
I’ve worked crappy jobs as well, but I certainly wouldn’t have attempted to buy a home or have a family by doing so. People have figured out that working some of the McJobs will actually get them more money through the Earned Income Credit (a welfare measure slipped into the tax code to - unsuccessfully for the most part - that allows them to get back more than they paid in federal income taxes).
I agree that anyone working and still getting public assistance in some form or other is far better than just paying them to sit home, get high, and breed.
Good analogy; there is no return on the investment, just more puppies to feed.
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