Posted on 10/31/2013 6:25:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It is late October, so Adrianne Flowers is out of money to buy food for her family. That is no surprise. Feeding five kids is expensive, and the roughly $600 in food stamps she gets from the federal government never lasts the whole month. "I'm barely making it," said the 31-year-old Washington, D.C., native and single mother.
Starting Friday, the money is likely to run out even quicker.
That is when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits are set to fall for more than 47 million lower-income people -- 1 in 7 Americans -- most of whom live in households with children, seniors or people with disabilities. Barring congressional intervention, the maximum payment for a family of four will shrink from $668 a month to $632, or $432 over the course of a year.
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So when are they going to stop the idiotic practice of giving food stamps to fat people?
Why doesn’t her husband help out feeding the kids?
5 kids and no mention of “Dad”.
Oh, and cut the fraud and there would be plenty left over for the truly needy.
Taxation and benefits without representation is our doom.
Child support is bad enough when you pay someone to treat your children like crap and blame you, but tax payer taxed by welfare thar way with a government middle man getting the political kick is outright evil.
I manage to feed 3 kids on way less than that. And MY kids don’t get free breakfast/lunch and dinner at their school either. Plus snacks sent home on the weekend in little backpacks, just in case precious gets a craving.
She only REALLY has to provide 6 meals a week for those 5 kids. What’s she doing with all the money?
Better yet...maybe there are 5 “fathers” who could (should) help feed those kids????
“said the 31-year-old Washington, D.C., native and single mother.”
There you have it.
Can’t feed em? Don’t breed ‘em.
My parents worked two jobs each to provide and put food on the table.My issue isn’t against those that really need them but those lazy bastards that just want a hand out..Generation after generation of taking and not putting back..
What husband?The woman is a single parent urban leftist baby factory.
CBS....please stop with the horseshit.
Both you and I know this baby-entitlement machine gets a lot more in government assistance than you deceptively lead us to believe with a paltry $600/month for 5 kids.
How about TANF (temporary assistance to needy families -WELFARE), WICS, Section 8, ObamaPhone, Utility Assistance, School breakfasts and lunches, EITC amounting to $5000 a year in her case.....just stop with this bullshit. She has more discretionary money each month than I do.
I know personally a guy who has fathered 11 children by four different women, the court order him to pay one of the mothers, a mother of two of his children eight dollars a month.
Now why do these women think this guy is worth it?
He is ugly and unemployed snake yet these women have his children.
You have to stop.
Men these days are in it just for the sex, they run when it comes to actually caring for the kids or going to parent teacher meetings or doing anything other than stroking their childish egos
The entire middle class is being transitioned to government dependency: THIS IS STRATEGIC.
I’m betting that most white, guilty liberals would declare such a statement to be cruel, racist, and judgemental...
and out the other side of their mouth they’d condemn the Duggars for having “too many” kids, even though they support them all.
I know plenty of them.
It is no secret anymore or never has been that these women have these kids to get more aid.
I know a women that borrowed a kid from a family member, why do you think so many of these people raise other family members children?
The benefits.
Maybe I will be able to afford lobster now.
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