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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I have a friend in Alabama who teaches first grade. She says the kid and the parents couldn’t care less about learning anything or school or getting prepared for jobs.
Your relationship with your ex was based on a premise that some ONE would be responsible.
This particular womans relationship with any of her children’s father(s) was based on sex. His responsibility for any care/feeding of the resulting children was never in question.
Middle class values vs. inner city values.
Big difference in expectations and outcomes.
I’m sorry you got the fuzzy side of the lollipop. We’re not all like that.
I’ve said on other threads. There are 4 and now 5 generations where NO ONE in the family has EVER gotten up to an alarm clock to go to work.
Why prepare for something nobody has needed since the 1960’s in those families.
Even if there WERE jobs they wouldn’t take them. Why should they?
They’ve traded ambition and career for stability and security. And so far it’s been a pretty darned good trade for most of them. Their standard of living is middle middle class. And if you try to take that away from them and make them work, they’ll kill you.
pathetic
Most of them are doing that.
There aren’t enough courtrooms and prison cells to hold them all.
Do you know how much a carton of Kools and a bottle of Hennessy go for???!?!?
(LOL)
Congratulations. Beautiful kids. Don’t know how I missed that thread. The Good Lord has truly blessed you by giving you charge of those children.
SUPPLEMENTAL Nutrition is what it is called. It is supposed to SUPPLEMENT the food you buy for your family. If I knew it wasn’t covering everything, I think I’d buy lots of rice, beans, and the cheapest meats I could find. There are also food banks in communities and churches all across the county. My very small town has a terrific (Christian) food bank staffed with excellent volunteers one week every month. Help is out there for those in need!
I’ll give the example again. One of the chicks in my HS class got pg between our 9th and 10th grade years. She wasn’t even 16 yet. She quit school, had the baby, and moved in with her cousin who’d done the same thing a year earlier (in lieu of taking the full scholarship to play basketball to a local junior college, she was ‘tired of school’).
Fast forward 30 years now. Chick is 47 and a GREAT grandmother. She had 6 kids, has 15 grandkids so far and NONE of her offspring have EVER worked a job in their LIVES. And ‘we’ have supported HER for her entire adult life.
How do you think she and her family will react if the EBT cards (and section 8 and tanf and wic and and and ) go offline for 10 days or more?
So who's going to pay for it all when there's nothing left on the plus side of the economy? No manufacturing, no investment, no productivity?
How is that supposed to work exactly?
Tell me about it.
We haven’t been able to afford COOKING wine in years. Much less good liquor.
Hubby gave up dipping and one reason was the expense.
But we’re not gaming the system with handouts.
Join the club so are the people that are working and being forced to sponsor your freebies.
5 kids, 5 Daddies
surely one of them has a dime
I hate to tell you but the food banks are being used to feed the famlies so the food stamp cards can be sold for cash to buy cigs/booze/etc.
I bet, if you presented that to you average, white, wannafeelgoodaboutmyself sheeperal,
they’d say, “then we’ll all be in the same boat”,
as if that is a desirable end condition.
She gets no sympathy from me. Normal people work hard, pay taxes, and have nothing left. Meanwhile, indolent slobs have one baby after another and don’t work, and don’t pay income taxes.
Because of people like this, people like me have only a small number of kids and still can’t make ends meet.
So I won’t listen to this selfish, lazy promiscuous slob who gets free money from the government to keep her voting democrat.
That would be four dads.They always seem to like one more than the others.
Somehow, it's been decided that my seven children and I have acquired a debt, or obligation, to the recipients, BUT THAT THEY HAVE NO RECIPROCAL OBLIGATION TO US.
When stated that way, you can see how crazy it is.
>> Feeding five kids is expensive... “I’m barely making it,” said the 31-year-old Washington, D.C., native and single mother.
Somewhere between one and five sperm donors, and not one of them will chip in?
Why’d you have so many kids? And no husband?
I feel sorry for those kids. You, Ariana? Not so much.
Thank you.
I do try to remember that.
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