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Millions on food stamps facing benefits cuts
CBS News ^ | October 31, 2013 | By Alain Sherter

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agdept; ebt; foodstamps; snap
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To: Black Agnes

I’m curious as to what her t-shirt says MADEA GETS A JOB ?

Person in photo? Her name is Jennifer Donald. The person discussed in the article is Adrianne Flowers.


121 posted on 10/31/2013 7:56:35 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: listenhillary

Jennifer Donald was the subject of a sob story a few days ago. Same story though. How her kids will starve to death if they don’t get that $30/month.

I suspect if the kids are hungry it’s because Jennifer is eating all their food.


122 posted on 10/31/2013 7:57:44 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Oberon

“He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; “

exactly


123 posted on 10/31/2013 8:00:31 AM PDT by AMDG&BVMH (wE)
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To: yldstrk

“Although every time I ever gave anyone a job cleaning they resented me “

If they resent you, anything lying in the house that they could pocket was rightly theirs according to entitlement logic.


124 posted on 10/31/2013 8:03:56 AM PDT by AMDG&BVMH (wE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The lady has a popcorn machine behind her, an industrial type mop bucket off to her left and wine and liquor lined up on the mantle to her right. It seems maybe she should examine her priorities or spending habits before crying about these cuts.


125 posted on 10/31/2013 8:05:40 AM PDT by mtbrandon49
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To: Patriotic1

Nah. People have a right to have all of that stuff!


126 posted on 10/31/2013 8:08:59 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists take the stand: "There is no God AND I hate Him.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cut a dollar twenty a day, OMG. And the kids get breakfast and lunch at school 5 days a week. Give me a break,


127 posted on 10/31/2013 8:22:10 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: jaydubya2

YEP, ALL THOSE BOTTLES OF WINE AND LIQUOR....I WONDER HOW MUCH A MONTH SHE PAYS FOR THE BOOZE? ALCOHOLIC WELFARE DEPENDENT......WE HAVE A NATION HALF FILLED WITH THESE MOMMAS WITH FIVE KIDS AND FIVE DADDIES.


128 posted on 10/31/2013 8:38:17 AM PDT by Bullfrogg (American by birth, Irish by heritage, and hellraiser by choice)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not enough food but enough to have a lot of wine/liquor bottles on that shelf in the back.


129 posted on 10/31/2013 8:38:30 AM PDT by gopheraj
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To: listenhillary

I gave my alcoholic sister 200 for a furnace and she hated me for it


130 posted on 10/31/2013 8:38:32 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: gopheraj

AND the candles. Got enough to buy candles spend it on food for the kids.


131 posted on 10/31/2013 8:40:35 AM PDT by gopheraj
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To: AMDG&BVMH

That pretty much sums up leftists, doesn’t it?

A bunch of thieves, hiding behind “caring for the poor”, and yet too cowardly to walk across the room and rob you directly,

they instead vote for thieves that promise to rob you, backed by the threat of nearly infinite resources and force.


132 posted on 10/31/2013 8:41:14 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: AMDG&BVMH

...in fact, it’s so apt I think it’s about to become sig file material.


133 posted on 10/31/2013 8:57:39 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m not against helping people in dire need. All I would demand is that when you ask for assistance from the gov., you agree to be sterilized. Maybe I missed it, but I heard no questions asked of the woman with five children as to how long she’d been on welfare. So did she go on welfare after her first child? We don’t know. But why would you continue to pump out children? Sterilize these people now.


134 posted on 10/31/2013 9:06:06 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: SoftballMominVA
Food stamps are not meant to be the whole budget

Just like Supplemental Security Income wasn't meant to be your entire retirement savings plan.

135 posted on 10/31/2013 9:12:50 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Gamecock

“Madea gets a check”


136 posted on 10/31/2013 9:14:11 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AS I understand it, they are only returning it to what it was before Obama liberalized it.


137 posted on 10/31/2013 9:15:00 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: Black Agnes

If you say so.


138 posted on 10/31/2013 9:15:24 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette (:)
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To: Marie Antoinette

A (former) bff of mine does just that.

She and her hubby smoke 3 packs a day between them.

‘We’ are paying for those cigs.


139 posted on 10/31/2013 9:17:18 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
2 Thessalonians 3:10
New American Standard Bible (NASB)


10 For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
140 posted on 10/31/2013 9:36:31 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: A dark spot in this country's history.)
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