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.
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My church is a “home” church. We have no building so we have no expenses. All that money that would have supported needless things is given to help others.
Do you really expect them to know what "supplementary" means?
Wait.
The Congressional Black Caucus doesn't either.
...never mind...
Because we have allowed it to grow for too long.
They are simply the symptom, not the problem!
We allowed it; it's up to us net-taxpaying non-government workers to fix it!
Fatal assumption #34,218.
Assuming that they ever had the skills to begin with!
Not sure but remember that they haven’t been promised it was just a bill passed in the house. also not all federal workers qualify for back pay.
My BLIND Aunt went on the Dole for six months back in the late 40’s when she lost her JOB.
Our Family didn’t have a Pot to piss in or a Window to throw it through. My Parents and my older Brother lived in two rooms in a Brownstone Basement. No heat, no running hot water and Rats the size of a Viking Kitty.
My Mother MADE my Father forcibly take my Aunt to the Welfare Office because my Aunt, who was living in what my Father described as squalor, refused to go on the Dole.
It was embarrassing.
My Aunt sewed Garments in what would nowadays be considered a Sweat Shop in Brooklyn. She got up every day, got dressed, took the Bus and worked all day to pay her way.
Again, this was a BLIND Woman who contracted Glaucoma in her teens when there was no treatment outside of removing your eyeballs to ease the pain.
She passed away less than two months ago at the age of 89.
The first time she heard Obama on the radio she told me he was a Phony.
She was a wise Woman and as feisty as they come...
I totally disagree.
After 14 years on FR, I have yet to encounter a single one that comes to mind.
Obama trolls don't count.
We have to honestly admire the Obama/Soros' machine's strategic planning.
Most of our veteran active trolls have sign-up dates of 2005, 2006 and 2007. Most surviving members are really good at it.
My M-i-L contracted polio at 3 (born in 1913). Her parents were told she'd never walk again. No one told her. She got a college education, married, had 3 children and taught school. Her right arm was withered and her left leg barely held her weight. She never received a handout in her life but gave everything she could spare to charities and her church.
Working even menial jobs develop skills and those skills and abilities build on previous skills. It is called promotion. Plus a person develops a work ethic and most important self respect.
And another benefit: if the job is unpleasant or undesirable, that can be motivation to do better such as learn a trade or get an education.
All of this is lost if a person gets stuck in the welfare system.
Wow, now that is a horrible story.
If a person is "stuck" in the welfare system from birth, none of what you say makes any sense.
Can't lose what you never had.
One time, there wasn't much food in the house and my siblings wanted to make brownies. They discovered they needed an egg and we did not have one. They went over, knocked on the neighbors door and asked to borrow an egg.
Well, my father, a staunch, proud German immigrant got wind of it. Holy crap! His head just about exploded. I remember the lecture to this day, "You don't take charity from people, you don't ask people for things, etc. etc."
This was the prevalent mindset back then. I am thankful I have it. I will pass it to my kids. Pride.
There, fixed it!
While the idea of eating mostly veg seems to freak out a lot of FReepers, I just got a book on being vegan for $4 a day - written to combat the idea that eating healthy is expensive. It turns out that is just a bit lower than my usual budget for 2 adults, so, it can be done.
If people would buy unprocessed food, get fruits in season instead of boxed snacks, make their own ice cream and shakes from frozen fruit, and learn to love beans, rice, potatoes, and green veg, they wouldn’t have a problem with the new budget. If they had to have meat, by eating unprocessed food in the rest of the diet, they would have enough to add in some chicken or stew beef.
I’m not going to say that everyone on food stamps is lazy or a welfare queen. The disabled get them, the elderly get them, they are a boon to the unemployed who are trying to stay afloat while they look for work. But, they will never seem like enough if you buy mostly processed food.
Yup. Me too. My grandfather was German/Swedish. He was the person who influenced me the most. He had a strong work ethic and he was a staunch Union man too. He grew up in a time when workers were treated very poorly. Just proves that nothing is always black and white. :)
Someone fax me a crying towel. The government has never bought me a meal, other than my rations in the armed forces, so why do FORTY SEVEN MILLION individuals (most of which, I guarantee you, have never served) get free food every month like clockwork? Buehler? Buehler?
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