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Food Stamp Money Will Run Out By The End Of January If The Government Shutdown Lasts That Long
End of the American Dream ^ | December 26, 2018 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 12/31/2018 6:51:59 AM PST by Zakeet

According to the Department of Agriculture, if this government shutdown stretches into February there won’t be money for food stamps. And it certainly looks like this shutdown could last for quite a while, because President Trump is not backing down on his demand for border wall funding, and the Democrats have pledged not to give him a single penny. So a few weeks from now, approximately 38 million people could be suddenly cut off from the food stamp program. If that scenario were to unfold, there is no telling what could happen. After just a few days, government workers are already freaking out about having their paychecks delayed. If people are getting this restless already, what will things look like when tens of millions of Americans are suddenly cut off from their primary source of food money?

Even though the government has been shut down, the Department of Agriculture still has some existing financial resources at their disposal, and they are assuring us that those enrolled in the food stamp program will still receive their benefits "for January".

(Excerpt) Read more at endoftheamericandream.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; foodstamps; shutdown; wall
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To: Zakeet; All
Thank you for referencing that article Zakeet. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Regarding so-called federal food stamp money, patriots are reminded of the following. The Constitution’s silence on this issue means that feeding the poor is uniquely a state power issue, not the business of the feds. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices and a constitutional lawmaker.

The problem is that the states rely on federal assistance to feed the poor because the unconstitutionally big, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government keeps stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes evidenced by the Gibbon v. Ogden excerpt above.

The bottom line is that crook Democratic and RINO federal lawmakers are stealing state revenues to buy the votes of food stamp recipients to help them stay in power imo.


61 posted on 12/31/2018 9:19:38 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Zakeet
Food Stamp Money Will Run Out By The End Of January If The Government Shutdown Lasts That Long.

OMG...some might actually have to go to work!! Imagine the horror!!

62 posted on 12/31/2018 9:28:06 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: Zakeet
Bye, bye Food Stamps?


63 posted on 12/31/2018 10:06:29 AM PST by upchuck (Liberalism is a foul and nasty mental disease for which the suffers should seek professional help.)
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To: Joe Bfstplk

Porkers with working smartphones riding in trucks. Food, electricity, and gas along the way, every day. Sooo pooor...


64 posted on 12/31/2018 10:11:06 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Zakeet

Please, Nancy, you need to stay in Hawaii a while longer.


65 posted on 12/31/2018 10:18:56 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: unixfox

It’ll be a nationwide Ferguson.


66 posted on 12/31/2018 10:20:11 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Phillyred

Close the border tomorrow and it’ll keep all those coming back from visiting grandma in Mexico out.


67 posted on 12/31/2018 10:22:12 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Amendment10

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.”

It’s borrowed money, ~$21 trillion.

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States”

The Founding Fathers never envisioned borrowing $21 trillion to fund a welfare state.


68 posted on 12/31/2018 10:23:13 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Red Badger

Free breakfasts, lunches and snacks at school. Free school lunches in the summer for those 0 to 21 years old. No one is starving in the US.


69 posted on 12/31/2018 10:23:48 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Amendment10

“The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States”

The Article IV, Section 3 Congressional “power to dispose of” is the Constitutional power behind federal welfare funding.

Congress disposes of its money (once yours) to the states and the states hand it out to individuals, families and social welfare institutions.

“Phrasal Verb: dispose of ....
“2. To give or transfer to someone else, especially permanently: She disposed of her estate among her heirs. He disposed of his memoirs to a research library.”

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dispose+of


70 posted on 12/31/2018 10:24:49 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Red Badger

I hate those. So full of weasel words. Stuff like “1 In 20” at “RISK” for “Hunger”. First, prove 1 in 20. Show me a list. Second, define “risk” and “hunger”.


71 posted on 12/31/2018 10:28:11 AM PST by Fledermaus (If the rule of law no longer exist, then what is the point?)
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To: Amendment10

“unconstitutional federal taxes”

Congress has the power to tax, limited only by the Article I Section 9 proportionality requirement, which no longer applies to taxes on incomes (and may not apply at all since the proportionality requirement was meant to be absolute).

Congress might tax all real and personal property in the United States at 100% and that might meet the proportionality requirement.

The Constitution has serious defects.

The power to tax has always been in the Constitution:

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States”

I’ll leave a discussion of general for another time.


72 posted on 12/31/2018 10:38:10 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Amendment10

“The bottom line is that crook Democratic and RINO federal lawmakers are stealing state revenues to buy the votes of food stamp recipients to help them stay in power.”

100% on the Marx!


73 posted on 12/31/2018 10:41:21 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Zakeet

MEMPHIS, NASHVILLE, KNOXVILLE.

Better Stock up on non perishable food instead of LOTO tickets, Beer, and Cigs and JUNK FOOD then.


74 posted on 12/31/2018 11:12:07 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: reg45

I live in a small town in Tennessee, mostly fast food, nail salons. Biggest employer is Kroger’s. ALL have NOW HIRING signs up. New Pizza place opens after the first of the year will need workers.


75 posted on 12/31/2018 11:14:57 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: Zakeet

Oh how I do hope this happens. Even the prospect of it will cause unmitigated panic.

Wait for it.


76 posted on 12/31/2018 12:01:22 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Zakeet

For frosting, cut off the heat and lights in any riot areas.


77 posted on 12/31/2018 12:45:45 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: central_va

Isn’t ‘Friskies’ reportedly more nutritious???


78 posted on 12/31/2018 12:48:35 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: mewzilla

What’s the rain? The column speculated running out of funds in early Feb.


79 posted on 12/31/2018 1:15:38 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Zakeet

This will be fun to watch.


80 posted on 12/31/2018 1:51:34 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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