Posted on 10/15/2013 6:48:49 PM PDT by ironwill
EXCERPT:
North Carolina has become the first state to cut off welfare benefits to poor residents in the wake of the partial federal government shutdown, ordering a halt to processing November applications until a deal is reached to end the federal standstill.
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Someone fax me a crying towel.
And let’s hope it’s not the last.
This should ‘end well.’
Unfortunately its just going to create democrats.
Big difference in stopping taking new application and stopping all payments
aren’t welfare payments from the state?
/johnny
EBT benefit applications are processed every month for every benefit recipient.
Oh Boy. Just in time for full size Glock season.
Seeing as how everyone in NC has to reapply every month for benefits, they are basically stopping all payments.
New welfare applications will be denied. That means no new dependency. So this is good because it means no new democrats.
Seeing as how everyone in NC has to reapply every month for benefits, they are basically stopping all payments.
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Everyone has to apply EVERY month? Well, that’s a government jobs project if I every heard of one.
Unfortunately you’re wrong. More than a few FReepers have announced the loss of their sole means of support over the past few years.
Lord knows I know far too many conservatives who have been forced to the government trough. If it weren’t for the fact that I don’t have kids to think about I probably would be.
That means they know a deal is being made. The R's will cave.
They're all more interested in keeping their jobs than protecting our country.
Buy stock in Greyhound. Lots of folks will be leaving the state.
I'm one of them. I don't take government support. I do without and make do.
I damn sure ain't going to turn liberal because my personal financial situation is crap.
/johnny
You are correct but some freepers don’t realize that through fortunate situation or even just luck.
Of possible interest ping.
It could create havoc...
Havoc creates victims and heroes both.
Some are built for havoc. Here, there, or in the air my brothers!
Now is the time for Obama’s constitutionally indefensible stimulation funds.
But whatever became of those funds? Anybody know?
You’re like me. I’m dirt ass poor but I don’t have kids at home to worry about so I can go without a lot of things.
My attitude is that we would be far more effective eliminating the job killing regulatory agencies first and a lot of people will return to work on their own.
Also there’s the fact that if the GOP were ever bright enough to offer the choice to the true welfare bums, they’ll call for the elimination of every other agency in the country as long as they can keep their grub stubs. Sure the entitlements will have to be eliminated but we can use the addiction to entitlements to move the ball in the right direction. Hell, it might even spark a war between the liberal whites and their inner city slaves.
I got an update from a Kroger manager.
WIC (The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children) is slated to stop on Oct 18.
SNAP (EBT/Food Stamps) stops Nov 1.
I don’t yet have a deadline for:
Commodity Assistance Programs (CAP) including the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP);
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP);
(CACFP)(School breakfast and lunch program);
Summer Food Service Program (SFSP);
Special Milk Program;
Senior Nutrition Programs, (Meals on Wheels) and senior congregate feeding programs.
Note that some of these programs were already depleted by sequestration, so will have to completely halt. Others have existing funds allocations, so may continue for a while.
Yes.
Theoretically, but the funding comes almost entirely from the federales. It's mostly borrowed money. So if the debt ceiling is not raised, there will be no money to fund it. Even the administrative costs are picked up by the feds, but that is not considered "mandatory" spending, and so is affected by the "shutdown". There was leftover money from FY 2013, and they seem to be burning through that to fund the admin costs.
That’s the way Uha...Uha...I like it!
The bill to fund it is on Harry Reid’s table blocked by an unrecorded vote of Senate Democrats- already passed by the House.
But no one will say.
Good. Let the CW begin.
I have 13 rounds of .45 ACP per fist. How many do you have?
At least there’s plenty of popcorn.
It only takes 1.
See post 26.
I just think there’s a better way.
In fact while I’m on it, I think welfare could be turned into true welfare to work program. Start by cutting the benefits to base survival levels and offering to increase the benefits in return for community service type things. If they can work and don’t, give them a 6 month cutoff notice. Caseworkers should be encouraging them to want out of the system.
Sure, children get the checks and go to the bank after reapplying each month.
lol!
Yup.
Humans respond to survival needs when pressed.
Its like weaning calves. They bawl and carry on for awhile, but eventually accept the new norm.
Likely the Pussies (oops, Pubbies) will cave by Friday. If not, before 11/1, guaranteed.
The outcome here is not in doubt, just the timing.
” Start by cutting the benefits to base survival levels and offering to increase the benefits in return for community service type things.”
I’ve always wondered why they don’t force able bodied people to do some kind of community service for welfare...(but technically if they did community service for it, it wouldn’t technically be welfare anymore).
One thing I have noticed with the new trend of forcing high school students to do community service is that it seems to turn them into conservatives when they learn just how fat, lazy, and rude the people they are helping are. I asked one of my friends kids a few times what percentage of people who go to the free food giveaways etc are legitimately needy, and he estimates about 10% which he enjoys helping, but the other 90% he has utter contempt for.
That is pretty much how I evolved into a conservative. When I was a senior in college, I got in trouble for a little bit of glug glug, vroom vroom, and had to do community service. At the time I had 18 units of 400 level engineering classes, I worked 20 hours a week, and I even donated plasma twice a week for beer money, and then on top of that I did my volunteering on saturday and sunday mornings at a soup kitchen in downtown Seattle. It wasn’t hard work, separate good and bad food, clean dishes, set up tables, whatever needed doing, but I could just never understand how these 4 or 5 dozen people could shamble in every day, get free food, then shamble out, and not even have the courtesy to bus their own plates...why couldn’t any of these people contribute an hour or two of their time to this place?
As opposed to cutting benefits to rich residents? Journalism, thy name is Stoopid.
Thanks for the update from a reliable source.
And people were wondering what the heck all of those large government ammo purchases by NOAA and NIST were for!
unless there’s more than one. Or more than 100. ;)
probably giving them to Mooslims via benghazi.
Glocks are nice and all, but I'm feeling like i need to go to the range and sight in my rifles.
It might actually make some Democrats start to think about fending for themselves, which could lead to them becoming more self-reliant, which could turn them into Conservatives.
I only have 13 of S&W .40
Maybe in a few fists.
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