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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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Adrianne Flowers

Acting / Modeling Profile

Age 31 Female
Washington, DC

Height5’2”
Body Type Petite
Ethnicity African American

http://www.exploretalent.com/adrianneflowers?turn_on=music


161 posted on 10/31/2013 11:07:36 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Black Agnes

I live in farm country near a lot of Amish (real Amish!), but still there are problems. Multigenerational welfare isn’t a problem yet, but it sure could be taking root in some areas.


162 posted on 10/31/2013 11:07:51 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette (:)
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To: kcvl
Body Type Petite

Wait... whut?

163 posted on 10/31/2013 11:09:34 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: SgtHooper
And the girl has on several bracelets to match her headband that matches her shirt. They don't look poor to me. I don't think they know what poor means. They know what taking money from taxpayers is though! And bitching about it not being enough!

Adrienne left school at 16 and after 5 years she still hasn't gotten her GED! She is nothing but a lazy, fat, sorry bum. Oh, and besides sleeping with sperm donors (at least five of them) I don't think she does much of anything else. She sure as hell doesn't seem to have a J O B...

164 posted on 10/31/2013 11:19:07 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Gamecock

Why do we bother educating the next generation of deadbeats? Let’s put them in human pastures let them breed and graze on beans. Lets treat them like the cattle that they are...


165 posted on 10/31/2013 11:24:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Marie Antoinette

Lots of the other kind of Amish near me.

multigenerational welfare will be the death of this nation.


166 posted on 10/31/2013 11:25:02 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: SgtHooper

Oh, and check out her t-shirt... “Medea Gets A Job”

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$27, $47, $52, $57, $62, $67

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167 posted on 10/31/2013 11:26:39 AM PDT by kcvl
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Madea Gets A Job - Black T-Shirt

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168 posted on 10/31/2013 11:33:23 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Good catch!


169 posted on 10/31/2013 11:53:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Sophia777

No one else will have them and they simply wanted welfare vouchers instead of children.


170 posted on 10/31/2013 12:00:09 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Rebelbase

Ditto if you spend $40/meal on takeout for 5 people.


171 posted on 10/31/2013 12:02:37 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: reformedliberal
Welfare mom has no intentions of working...4 chidren...over $1,200 month.....she is receiving more in benefits than our disabled combat veterans!..... And on top of that? She's complaining and demanding more!


172 posted on 10/31/2013 12:05:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: Black Agnes

Twenty years ago, I asked a welfare mama of 29 what she would do when her youngest hit 18 and her fertility ended?
She answered that “I will always have a baby.” She does have babies: her children’s kids.

This woman is white, was raised middle class,had two parents and all the normal accoutrements of American life. She will eventually share in her parents’ estate. She also managed a part-time job and has convinced Amish families that she is a midwife. Amish don’t sue or ask to see credentials, you see. They pay cash. She is very system-savvy and manages to always get exactly what she wants from it.


173 posted on 10/31/2013 12:06:31 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal

I know exactly the type.

We have both kinds around here sadly.

Their kids are usually on ‘wanted’ posters.


174 posted on 10/31/2013 12:13:09 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: yldstrk

We gave a part time training position to a woman on welfare with one kid. She lived in filth in a rural trailer furnished with some lawn chairs and odds and ends. Again, white and raised middle class.

The position was jeweler’s assistant. Her duties were filing, sanding and then putting the finished pieces in the correct space. There were weeks when she never made it in due to *car trouble* and assorted family issues of great dramatic nature. There were days she did show up, but spent her time regaling us with her tales of personal drama. There was the day after she had not been into work for a week when she arrived on time to find something unrelated to her work in the space she was used to using. Her response was:”What happened to my station?”, spoken forcefully and with implied accusation. We let her go as few weeks later, citing a slowdown in work.

Over about 30 years, we would find menial labor for people we felt could benefit from the experience. Two actually went on to make something of their lives. Most were really demanding ( “I can’t walk between the buildings, it is raining.”)and simply unwilling to do more than the barest essentials to get a few dollars cash. After awhile, it just became so stressful, we stopped.

BTW, I have a 2-woman team of cleaners who come in for 1 1/2-2 hour a month (I have a 10 room house) and help with floors, moving furniture and corners. Both are my age (70), both are conservative, one is a widow of means who needs her business to feel engaged in the world, the other is comfortable, but can’t deal with spending all day every day at home with her retired husband. They limit their clients to people they like and work limited hours. They are professionals and really know their stuff. I will miss them when they finally retire.

I’ve given cleaning jobs to hard luck cases in the past who did a lousy job and resented me for employing them. Couldn’t trust them, either.


175 posted on 10/31/2013 12:37:46 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: listenhillary

As an obnoxious teen, once, when my mother asked how I was ever going to keep a home if I wouldn’t even clean up my room, I replied, snottily, “I’ll have a maid”. My mother’s response was “Who is going to teach the maid?”

Never occurred to me that there were people who didn’t know how to clean!


176 posted on 10/31/2013 12:43:27 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Black Agnes

Yep. You know what you’re talking about.


177 posted on 10/31/2013 12:52:31 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: jaydubya2

Good get! Can’t believe it took 50+ posta before someone pointed this out. Can also see a TV and cable box behind her, not to mention a big gold ring on her finger. sheesh.


178 posted on 10/31/2013 2:47:59 PM PDT by Thom Pain (U.S. Constitution is a CONTRACT! : $70 TRILLION unfunded...)
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To: reformedliberal

well you know what I am talking about then


179 posted on 10/31/2013 6:12:36 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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