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.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
You do make a good point. However, there are many here (and I'm not naming names or pointing fingers at anyone specific, mind you) who would classify even the 2% as 'freeloaders' and 'leeches' and bring them under the same wrath and consequences as the real freeloaders and leeches.
I would hope that those who wish to punish those who are gaming the system will take that into consideration.
Since the furloughed Fed workers have been guaranteed their back pay, would they have to pay back any unemployment?
Dear Food Stamp Recipient:
Watch for sales and don’t buy crap...that’s how we do it. This mess shouldn’t last too long.
Regards,
Maddie10
Dang!
They forgot the Womyn!
Stand back for a vaginal hissy fit!
What I find amazing is that they actually photographed her home FILLED with stuff! The truth is...it is literally impossible to find a “real” hardship case because we have so many safety nets in the US. Especially families with kids of school age who get fed at least 2 meals a day in school. Personally I would love to go into these folks homes for a week and educate them on how to make a budget and shop in bulk at low cost. Sadly they think that they are actually thrifty
and I understand they have stretched the qualification income to include middle class wage/salary earners.
This is supposed to be a safety net not a way of life.
Hah! A long long time ago I worked for the welfare dept here....in food stamps. On the first of the month when all the GDs (general deliveries aka homeless) would come in and get their stamps that had been returned from the post office they would be waiting for us at the back door when we got off at 5 to try and sell them to us.
Was quite hilarious.
Good they can join the club of Americans who still have pride and buy their own food and pay the ever increasing food prices. Then maybe ( but I doubt it ) they will understand that elections have consequences.
I REALLY don’t want to see that...
Yup.
It appears that the attitude changed in the 60s. Prior to the 60s, accepting welfare was considered bad and only an absolute necessity. Able bodied people were expected to work and there was an effort to find them work. A person who wanted to work but couldn’t find work was respected.
Omgosh...here is the actually interview on youtube with the woman featured in the story. Just take a look at the toys and stuff in the background. Oh and she tries to say that she can’t make rounded meals without the extra money(I guess she did grow a Michelle Obama garden) Oh and the oldest girl is well on her way to obesity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cT23W1KKZc
Omgosh...here is the actually interview on youtube with the woman featured in the story. Just take a look at the toys and stuff in the background. Oh and she tries to say that she can’t make rounded meals without the extra money(I guess she did grow a Michelle Obama garden) Oh and the oldest girl is well on her way to obesity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cT23W1KKZc
What they are going to do is raise the prices in our grocery stores- and the Grocery stores are going to give out “charity” to help the poor people.
Already happening from Food Lion in NC.
We are screwed no matter what until we get rid of these elite politicans.
“Six ounces of meat per day isn’t a lot.”
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My mother was widowed in The Great Depression with 2 kids to feed. Then came the shortages of WWII.
Six ounces of meat a day would have been absolute heaven.
.
True Story.
I took a "Beginners" class on computers at the local Adult School, because I was curious what I had missed, since I never got computer training except from learning on the job, 50 years ago, when personal computers were in the realm of fantasy.
One can imagine the characters that showed up for that class...Among them was a member of a protected class. In his forties or 50's, hard to tell. The first thing I learned is that he couldn't see the computer screen, because he couldn't afford glasses. He was unemployed and his unemployment had run out. His wife volunteered at a church and was on permanent disability. He was working on also joining the "permanent disabled" class. I would guess from memory, that he missed one third of the first ten classes.
Fast forward to a couple of months later when he had been absent for the previous class and he candidly told his adventures the previous weekend.
He and his wife had gone to a casino about 100 miles away, and could "only" afford $900 for the casino trip. Mind you, in addition to not being able to afford glasses, he couldn't afford to get his computer fixed. Not surprisingly, for after more than a month of twice a week 2hrs+ classes, he still needed help to log on to the computer.
To conclude his story, stranded with no gas money to get home, they had to call a friend to wire them some money so they could get home. Oh, incidentally, he also couldn't afford to properly maintain his car.
Sic Transit Gloria Americani...
I could also relate my exciting adventures with the other protected class (I am fluent in both Spanish and French) during the same period, but that's a tale for another thread...
In my experience, locally, 100% of the obviously "disabled" protected classes (they use a cane as "validation" ) are 100% overweight... or use a government supplied electric cart, while talking on their Obamaphone.
My dad used to drive her to that church’s food pantry, and he always remarked about how efficiently it was run. Far better than any Fed program I’m sure.
D'OH!!
the DC criminals made the new welfare (in addition to the hundreds of existing welfare programs) and lifetime "disability," part of Social Security, where it could be hidden where nobody would notice.
Making it a separate, new, identifiable welfare scam just would have never worked.
Predictably, those new "programs" account for substantially over half of all ongoing SS expenditures.
And growing.
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