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Government shutdown could cut off food stamps
AP ^ | Sep. 22, 2015 | Mary Clare Jalonick

Posted on 09/22/2015 1:22:07 PM PDT by PROCON

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government shutdown Oct. 1 could immediately suspend or delay food stamp payments to some of the 46 million Americans who receive the food aid.

The Agriculture Department said Tuesday that it will stop providing benefits "within the first several days of October" if Congress does not pass legislation to keep government agencies open.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foodstamps; govtshutdown; thepoor; thugocracy
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To: PROCON

Would a shutdown also stop foreign subsidies to Middle East nations? Maybe those on welfare might ask that. The Agriculture Dept under this administration would actually stop assistance to Americans but you can be sure our enemies won’t lose a dime. Too bad low info voters don’t question all the waste to enemies.


41 posted on 09/22/2015 1:49:28 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: PROCON
...if Congress does not pass legislation to keep government agencies open.

What if they DO pass legislation but it includes cutting government funding for Planned Parenthood. And then Obama vetoes it.

Then it isn't Congress that "does not pass legislation", no?

Not that anyone in the media would dare draw ANY conclusion except it was all Congress's fault...

42 posted on 09/22/2015 1:50:12 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: nascarnation

** How about free grub at school? **

In San Antonio, they just launched snack packs 4 kids. They give free lunch kids food to take home so they don’t go hungry over the weekend. Basically, the schools are feeding these kids all their meals.


43 posted on 09/22/2015 1:51:16 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: PROCON

Howmi suppose ta feed my babies?


44 posted on 09/22/2015 1:51:44 PM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: PROCON

Well, I guess Obama had best not shut it down then.


45 posted on 09/22/2015 1:52:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: sockmonkey

Correct, and there’s no “adjustment” made to the food stamp amount for that.


46 posted on 09/22/2015 1:53:07 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: PROCON

What? And force some of the low-lifes to actually find work? /s


47 posted on 09/22/2015 1:53:29 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: PROCON

Just like all the other times??? on wait... it never happened before

What’s different? Obama is doing it on purpose.


48 posted on 09/22/2015 1:54:16 PM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: PROCON

I was shopping a few days back and not enough checkout lines were open. Anyhow, the young woman that was ahead of me in the line was yapping on her cell phone. She was discussing with someone about a baby shower they were throwing and that they didn’t need to worry about food because two other girls had food stamps and they would by all the food stuffs and that they only needed to get the stroller.


49 posted on 09/22/2015 2:06:03 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Irenic

by=buy


50 posted on 09/22/2015 2:07:16 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: PROCON

U mean folks would have to ac
tually work to put food on the table...? Wha a novel idea.


51 posted on 09/22/2015 2:10:28 PM PDT by swampfox101
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To: sockmonkey

Hadn’t heard of it, went looking around, dust-up over Pop Tarts:

http://snackpak4kids.org/faqrsquos


52 posted on 09/22/2015 2:13:49 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: PROCON

Good.

They can sell some of the gold chains or get rid of the cable.

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53 posted on 09/22/2015 2:15:19 PM PDT by Mears
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To: PROCON

The rioting. The violence. The foul-mouthed chants. The rock throwing. The civil disorder.

And that’s just the executive management of Walmart, Albertsons, Kroger, Safeway and Giant Eagle.


54 posted on 09/22/2015 2:17:30 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PROCON

Sounds like the bastards really do want a civil war. They should be very, very careful what they wish for.


55 posted on 09/22/2015 2:18:03 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Voting is like choosing whether you'd prefer the crips or MS-13 to take over your neighborhood.)
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To: nascarnation

Beer stamps you mean.


56 posted on 09/22/2015 2:20:59 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Voting is like choosing whether you'd prefer the crips or MS-13 to take over your neighborhood.)
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To: skeeter

From school referendums(teacher layoffs, no sports, no library, etc.) to the feds (no food stamps, close national parks, etc.), the tactics are the same. Threaten the most painful while neglecting the most wasteful. The first cut in a government shutdown should be Congressional salaries, WITH NO REIMBURSEMENTS.


57 posted on 09/22/2015 2:27:38 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: NTHockey
Can't stop the lying news media from flacking for the left to drum up opposition, though, even if that is the plan.

The leftist media needs to be dealt first with if we are to make any progress.

58 posted on 09/22/2015 2:29:41 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: dp0622

Hell they use those damn EBT cards for beer and other goodies these days. No big deal as they will have plenty of food. .


59 posted on 09/22/2015 2:54:17 PM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: PROCON

Good.....Shut it down.


60 posted on 09/22/2015 3:22:55 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
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