Margarette Purvis could give them some of her food (white sweater).
Posted on 10/28/2013 9:58:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Food stamp recipients face a massive benefit cut set to kick in when stimulus funds expire Friday. The nationwide cut “is equivalent to about 16 meals a month for a family of three,” according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis using the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan.” CBPP called the roughly $5 billion annual cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program “unprecedented” in “depth and breadth.”
“If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,” Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City, told Salon Monday. Purvis said that the looming cut would mean about 76 million meals “that will no longer be on the plates of the poorest families” in NYC alone – a figure that outstrips the total number of meals distributed each year by the Food Bank for New York City, the largest food bank in the country. “There will be an immediate impact,” she said.
“The fact that they’re going to lose what’s basically an entire week’s worth food” each month, said Purvis, “it’s pretty daunting.” She told Salon that while policymakers “are attempting to punish people for being poor,” and “people are comforted by believing that they know that a person has to have done something wrong in order to be poor,” in reality, “I can tell you that more and more folks have more than one job and are still needing help.”(continued)
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Given today's education levels, there's a good chance they don't know how to make rice or beans. Can openers might even be too much of a technological challenge.
“Bout time they had to eat ramen like the working class.”
I am in the top 10% and I still eat ramen. You have to have some fresh or frozen vegetables to put in it to really make it good. Spinach does really well in ramen.
“Why don’t they just print more money?” ~ The Dumb Masses
Actually, the Arab Spring started when a Tunisian vendor set himself on fire in protest of a ridiculous bureaucrat and bureaucracy.
“It is 5.5% overall “
I hate to say this but the economy due to the democrats is so bad that the fed has been adding 85 billion a month to keep the thing going. The down side is that this money is causing food inflation. The overall inflation rate is low because telecomunications is getting cheaper along with flat screen tvs.
We need to be cutting spending on the US navy, EPA, college aid, govt. employees, etc. I am ok with food stamps provided we step up fraud prosecutions.
There were 8 million in NY in the 1960s. It’s more like 10 million now.
The packaged ramen is often full of msg.
“Did you ever here of a riot that start by something that made sense? “
How come all the people in the pictures are black? There are more white people, numerically, on food stamps than blacks.
How many people could leech off a family member rather than the US taxpayers?
How many people might be encouraged to get a job and make a salary to pay for their own food?
How many fraudulent accounts would have less money to purchase non-essentials?
The article assumes that all of the money spent on food stamps actually goes for food that is required for sustenance. I'm sure a good portion does, but I'm sure a large portion also goes for waste, fraud and abuse.
It is a government program after all.
Significant when you buy a dozen eggs and a small container of old fashioned oat meal for $4.50.
Same here.
WalMart lobsters and so many 6 packs of soda they have them draped around the top of the shopping cart like saddlebags.
The “trains” of carts are what flip me out.
I can’t afford to fill *one* cart and they’re dragging 3 or 4 tied together.
I don’t know maybe the photgrapher was a racist and asked all the white rioters to step back while he took the picture?
You are so right. But then is it really a surprise since every government program is full of fraud and waste? Medicaid is estimated to contain 25% fraud!
Translation: Freebies are just the price we must pay to prevent "the poor" from rioting.
Some people might view that as (very thinly veiled) extortion...
If one can’t feed a family of 4 on $150 a week...of my money...
Margarette Purvis could give them some of her food (white sweater).
That's the amount for a month.
Cordially, Steve86
“How come all the people in the pictures are black?”
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I wonder the same thing. Maybe it is a store in Obumbo’s home country.
Average full benefit is $50 per week per person.
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