Posted on 10/12/2013 1:21:20 PM PDT by mdittmar
People in Ohio, Michigan and several other states found themselves unable to use their food stamp debit cards on Saturday, after a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. Shoppers from Maine to Oklahoma had to abandon baskets of groceries because they couldn't access their benefits.
Ohio's cash and food assistance card payment systems went down at 11 a.m., said Benjamin Johnson, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Ohio's cash system has been fixed, however its electronic benefits transfer card system is still down. All states that use Xerox systems are affected by the outage.
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Please God, let them all run to the White House, knock on the door and ask for their Obamamoney!
Please!!!!
Valuable teaching moment here.....when the government gives, it can take away. Depend on yourself.....NOT Uncle Sam’s gifts by theft. Sadly, those that need the lesson won’t get it, they’re too busy being outraged.
It is sad,sad to see,sad to watch.
wow. Unbelievable how pissed off these people are. Also, how do they expect to feed their kids??? Really??? If you can’t go to Popeye’s, you can’t just go someplace else, or eat at home??? There was no alternative to Popeye’s at all???
Or as a caller on CSPAN once said.... “dey coupé de ville”
It’s living hand-to-mouth. These people are so irresponsible that we’re not just paying to raise their kids: We’re feeding them.
A year ago or so, I linked a Ga youtube video that was from a newscast. The ebt system was down temporarily and they showed the fallout from that. Within minutes of me posting it, the video was pulled from youtube.
You were right. No surprise. How much longer? EBT not “purposely” cut off though (well yeah it is), just one of those unfortunate SNAFUs... shame about the inevitable riots, violence, and death.
1st inner-city salvo aimed by the "SPITE HOUSE "
Culprit to soon be identified on NBC / CBS as :Cruz and the "Tea Party " .
You know the Dems want the constituancy to " feel the pain " of loss of their 'entitlements '.
...and give us law abiding folk a chance to thin out the scum.
The comments at that pic link are unbelievable. One says “I’d tell them (store) I’ll be back for my card later, but this food is going home with me, now!”
Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufk7IXdxc-c
Why is the lowest common denominator* in society allowed to have six kids they can’t afford to feed?
*uneducated, unemployed, not interested in changing either situation
Can you post the interesting picture? I just see a SNAP card.
Hmmm. Interesting.
Natives are gonna git restless.
my wife was at a kroger today when this happened. said the lady in front of her had the following in her basket:
wings from the deli
ham and cheese sandwiches
bottled water
schlitz
guess what she wound up buying?
the schlitz....with cash! doesn’t sound like she needs the ebt.
this would be a good time to overhaul the entire system and restrict the foods that can be purchased to the essentials. wings from the deli aren’t essential if you’re on the public dole.
That was two years ago, and I remember noticing at the time that all those women had their hair and nails done. Where do they get the money for that?
Just what I was thinking!
Baby daddy. It’s a racket. She gets all the federal aid. He sells drugs and gets all the cash. Plus he’s got a few of them. I saw a tweet that said something like, “Look out bro, yo hoes gon’ be coming to u fo’ food $, ebt down”
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