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Anxiety as stimulus hike in food stamps set to end
Associated Press ^ | Oct 10, 2013 6:21 AM (ET) | RIK STEVENS

Posted on 10/10/2013 8:07:14 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A temporary increase in food stamps expires Oct. 31, meaning for millions of Americans, the benefits that help put food on the table won't stretch as far as they have for the past four years.

Food stamps - actually the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - go to 47 million Americans a month, almost half of them children and teenagers.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foodstamps; stimulus
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To: pnut22

My lobster monger refuses EBT / SNAP / Foodstamps, and boy are they pissed when they can’t get their lobster and king crab legs!


21 posted on 10/10/2013 8:17:37 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("So the minimum plan for obamacare is 100 bucks a month I like you Obama but nigga I'm broke")
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To: Uncle Miltie

We are always hearing about how Social Security is going to run out of
money.

How come we never hear about Welfare running out of money?


22 posted on 10/10/2013 8:18:39 AM PDT by IM2MAD (IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

23 posted on 10/10/2013 8:19:20 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("So the minimum plan for obamacare is 100 bucks a month I like you Obama but nigga I'm broke")
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To: DJ MacWoW

>>>One recipient, Jennifer Donald, a 31-year-old mother of three in Philadelphia, said she counts on the family’s $460 monthly benefit to put food on the table. Her husband has a job sanitizing machines at meat-packing plants but it doesn’t pay enough. She’ll have to reduce the quality of the food she buys to stretch the benefits, then turn to food pantries once the money runs out.

“I was mad and devastated and a little bit confused because we need our benefits,” Donald said in an interview at her row house, where she was preparing ground-beef tacos, a family favorite, while her 10-year-old daughter and two sons, 6 and 4, played and did homework. “This is the way we eat right now. Live a day in our life before you can cut our benefits.”<<<

Maybe you should consider GETTING A JOB like all the taxpayers you are leeching off of.


24 posted on 10/10/2013 8:19:58 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

I was on welfare and food stamps for a short time YEARS ago. You wouldn’t believe the games the government plays. If they pay your rent and there is a rent hike of $20, they take it out of your food stamps even though YOU didn’t get the money. The game playing made me crazy. I jumped for joy when Hubby got a job!


25 posted on 10/10/2013 8:22:24 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Some at Guantanamo Jail Too Sick to Keep Locked Up

During his time in captivity, the weight of the 55-year-old Egyptian has nearly doubled, reaching more than 420 pounds at one point

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3077184/posts

we’ve got so much free cheese , we have to export it to people trying to murder us!


26 posted on 10/10/2013 8:22:27 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

How about instead of money for this program they hand out cheese and other foods rotting in govt warehouses?

Make this program have a stigma attached to it (as it should) and watch the numbers drop.


27 posted on 10/10/2013 8:22:40 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pnut22
Those children & teenagers could possibly be forced to endure a downgrade from Premier to a Basic cable package.

Daddy might have to go without his Sunday Ticket.

28 posted on 10/10/2013 8:22:44 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: DJ MacWoW

>>>>”When they cut my food stamps, they cut my pride in being a human being,” she said. “I go without a lot. Now I’ll go without more.”<<<

So this woman takes PRIDE in robbing hard working taxpayers, and her pride is wounded when she is asked to rob a bit less?

“Food stamps do not support a diabetic diet; doesn’t even come close,” she said. “I’m supposed to eat a lot of vegetables, some fruit, some carbs. Six ounces of meat per day isn’t a lot. I don’t have a big freezer. There are times I’m eating the same thing for a week.”

Food stamps are not supposed to provide for all of your dietary needs the “S” in SNAP stands for “supplementary”. I guess it is too much to ask these bums to provide for even a small portion of their own needs.


29 posted on 10/10/2013 8:25:56 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Maybe they could try eating like the rest of us for a change.

95% of the time when I am in a supermarket line behind somebody with their shopping cart stacked high with fresh shrimp, prime cuts of meat and premium frozen ready to microwave and eat meals, they are paying with an EBT card. And driving off in a car I can't afford. But I'm expected to subsidize them with my taxes.

Why do you suppose that is?

30 posted on 10/10/2013 8:26:45 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: skeeter
Daddy might have to go without his Sunday Ticket.

Why else do you suppose the entire NFL is one big cheerleading session for Obama?


31 posted on 10/10/2013 8:27:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Above My Pay Grade

If you offered her a job, you would have to fight her she would be so mad. The good part for those of her ilk, that sooner, probably sooner, or later, their gravy train is going to be derailed. Then her and her ilk will be in for a world of hurt. They won’t make it.


32 posted on 10/10/2013 8:28:08 AM PDT by sport
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To: DJ MacWoW

Lately I, I’ve been heading for a breakdown
Every time I leave my house
Well it feels just like a shake down
Between street sweepers and the pushers are the lawyers
Who may as well be butchers
Between the small timing hustlers who all, seem to feed upon each other

[Chorus]
Oh God why you been
Hanging out in that ol’ violin
While I’ve been waiting for you, to pull me through

Lately I, every time I try to lie down
Well my mind just gets away
I can’t even close my eyes now
Between the big fish ambition, and the lovers
Using words as ammunition
Between the wood planks I’ve been pacing endless
Impossible dream that I’ve been chasing

[Chorus]


33 posted on 10/10/2013 8:28:20 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("So the minimum plan for obamacare is 100 bucks a month I like you Obama but nigga I'm broke")
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To: DJ MacWoW

JAIL time = ‘3 hots and a cot’

ain’t all bad.

/s


34 posted on 10/10/2013 8:28:53 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: IM2MAD

Welfare is translated into Democrat votes, My FRiend.


35 posted on 10/10/2013 8:29:32 AM PDT by sport
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To: DJ MacWoW

Si se puede!


36 posted on 10/10/2013 8:29:45 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Unemployment claims up this week. Obama’s liars in the media keep distracting people from the real story. This jackass President is killing jobs.


37 posted on 10/10/2013 8:30:48 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: DJ MacWoW

We did a check on food stamps, not for need but was curious, and we were amazed at the “freebies” included....
We live comfortably, travel, have second home in Colombia and eat what ever we want to!

But guess what...??? Im eligible!!!!!!!!!!!1 Not a lot but its absurd what the gov throws away. I was floored...no wonder our country is a mess

PS. I can afford to send FR a few bucks..........thanks Jim for the many years of total enjoyment!


38 posted on 10/10/2013 8:32:16 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Above My Pay Grade
In other words, MORE THAN HALF of them go to ADULTS.

And more than half go to those who are overweight.

39 posted on 10/10/2013 8:34:06 AM PDT by ladyjane (For the first time ever I am not proud of my country.)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

Yeah, I’m not gonna boohoo a bit until I see more effort to address the fraud than they expend on signing more people up.


40 posted on 10/10/2013 8:34:37 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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