Friday will be a bad day to be hungry.

[Gracie]

Who knows how long anyone sits at a computer? And better yet...has anyone here ever wore someone elses shoes? Course not. But keep those fingers a'wagglin' if it floats your boats.

 

[syrenn]

The cuts come at a time when food pantries across the country are already stretched to the limit, Triada Stampas, senior director of government relations for the Food Bank For New York City, the nation’s largest emergency food organization, told NewsOne. The USDA says 49 million Americans are food insecure, meaning they cannot afford adequate amounts of food. That amounts to 1 in 6 Americans.

“We are talking about asking people to purchase a year’s worth of food with 11 months of money. The benefits were barely adequate to begin with,” said Stampas.

Instead of having just $1.50 to spend per meal, SNAP participants will see that drop 10 cents to $1.40 per meal. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that will add up to 21 less meals per month. With most SNAP participants running out of food by the third week of the month, advocates fear that will happen even earlier.

Food Stamp Cuts Will Leave 47 Million Families Hungrier | News One

And how do the fine people of this board suggest that they cope.

Veterans, soldiers and their families shouldn't need to be on assistance anyway. But they do. And they are. And seniors. I know there's fraud. This is NOT how to fix that. A lot of good people are going to be in a world of hurt because of what's happening here.

same way the rest of us cope..

live within your means.

 

[Sunshine]

Uh-huh. Okay.

Listen, I don't know about you lot, but I've been pretty damn poor. And my budget likely would not have done well with "Sorry, but that raise we gave you four years ago? Yeah - we're taking that back."

Hell, I wouldn't do so fine NOW.

then the lesson to be learned from that.....is never EVER give them a bonus again

A bonus...is NOT a raise.


fuck 'um.

When this last recession hit a lot of workers took lower pay in order to keep their jobs. The way hospitals do it in Nashville is to have a list and every nurse takes a turn rotating off if the census is too low. When you are sent home, then your name goes to the bottom of the list. People who work cooperatively can keep themselves afloat if they want to. But a lot just want to do what they want all day.

 

[gallantwarrior]

The cuts come at a time when food pantries across the country are already stretched to the limit, Triada Stampas, senior director of government relations for the Food Bank For New York City, the nation’s largest emergency food organization, told NewsOne. The USDA says 49 million Americans are food insecure, meaning they cannot afford adequate amounts of food. That amounts to 1 in 6 Americans.

“We are talking about asking people to purchase a year’s worth of food with 11 months of money. The benefits were barely adequate to begin with,” said Stampas.

Instead of having just $1.50 to spend per meal, SNAP participants will see that drop 10 cents to $1.40 per meal. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that will add up to 21 less meals per month. With most SNAP participants running out of food by the third week of the month, advocates fear that will happen even earlier.

Food Stamp Cuts Will Leave 47 Million Families Hungrier | News One

And how do the fine people of this board suggest that they cope.

Veterans, soldiers and their families shouldn't need to be on assistance anyway. But they do. And they are. And seniors. I know there's fraud. This is NOT how to fix that. A lot of good people are going to be in a world of hurt because of what's happening here.

DoD: 5,000 Military Families Losing Food Stamps | Military.com

"Military members who receive SNAP tend to be made up of members in junior pay grades with larger than average household sizes," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman.

How f**king embarrassing. We cannot even pay those who defend our rights and our way or life enough to keep them off welfare.

 

[Sunshine]

Who knows how long anyone sits at a computer? And better yet...has anyone here ever wore someone elses shoes? Course not. But keep those fingers a'wagglin' if it floats your boats.

Well when you can pull up a person's posts and you see they have posted every 10 minutes for 12 hours straight it is highly likely they have been sitting at the computer for 12 hours posting. It's not rocket science. LOL

 

[Gracie]

Do you really do that Sunshine? Pull up peoples posts and archive times??
Dayum.

 

[Mr. H.]

What's so bad about being hungry? I grew up hungry. It's a great motivator. At 15 I got a part time job while going through high school. $1.10/hr. Loaned money to our mother to buy groceries and clothing. My younger brother sold weed to buy the younger siblings things they otherwise would never have had. It didn't last long - only 7 years before we climbed out of poverty and paid the bills dad left behind.

Get a fucking grip. Americans are spoiled rotten.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I was in Wally World this morning to snag the T-Day turkey.....28lbs.....98 cents a pound....cheapest and most nutritious meat on the market this time of year. No rioters, nobody screaming or speaking in tongues.....I guess the EBT crowd just has to tighten the belt a little tighter is all. What I did notice is the canned goods have all SHRUNK. Same with bread....anybody notice how tiny the slices are anymore? And forget beef.......too expensive to mess with although I did go to another market for a nice pot roast that would have cost $6 when Dubya was in office but now costs $13. My point is the SNAP crowd not only has less to spend on decent food, but there's also less of it for the money. It seems plentiful and cheap food is becoming a thing of the past thanks to the company bosses. Never in my life have I been so ashamed of the free enterprise system.

True point. I shop carefully and try to parse every penny. It seems that almost everything has lost weight (except the consumers). As for bread and such things, I make my own. Bread, cheese, milk, all such things I make myself. Lots of things I have to buy and I find generic to be most economical. I'm glad to finally be getting a grip on the garden situation. Next Fall, I'll have a decent veggie crop to put up. P.S. If I can find time to put up the garden vegetables I grow, considering I work three jobs, I'm sure someone who works one or no jobs could find the time to do the same.

 

[Sunshine]

Food Stamp Cuts Will Leave 47 Million Families Hungrier | News One

And how do the fine people of this board suggest that they cope.

Veterans, soldiers and their families shouldn't need to be on assistance anyway. But they do. And they are. And seniors. I know there's fraud. This is NOT how to fix that. A lot of good people are going to be in a world of hurt because of what's happening here.

DoD: 5,000 Military Families Losing Food Stamps | Military.com

"Military members who receive SNAP tend to be made up of members in junior pay grades with larger than average household sizes," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman.

How f**king embarrassing. We cannot even pay those who defend our rights and our way or life enough to keep them off welfare.

It's not a priority for Obama.

 

[Political Junky]

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Read more at Thomas Jefferson Quotes - BrainyQuote

 

[Trajan]

seriously, no one starves, except thru gross negligence, usually due to the care taker here....as for seniors, its usually a matter of GETTING them help, not that there isn't any.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Christians are perfectly willing to provide food and other things to the poor. We do it all the time.

Lefties, on the other hand, hate churches, and expect them to allow government to do it...and they expect churches to PAY the government TO do it.

No thanks. Those of us who defend liberty defend our right to disburse our money and largesse at will. Not to have the government take it from us by force, and then redistribute it as THEY see fit.

Considering government is their faith and religion, how can you question them?

 

[Sunshine]

Do you really do that Sunshine? Pull up peoples posts and archive times??
Dayum.

Of course. It's the only way to find a particular post they have made without having to read every thread.

 

[Sunshine]

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Read more at Thomas Jefferson Quotes - BrainyQuote

The quote sites quote out of context.

Status: This exact quotation has not been found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson. It may be a mistaken amalgamation of the author's comments in the above 1994 reference with a real Jefferson quotation. Jefferson wrote in 1825 to William Branch Giles of "a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76, now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and monied incorporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures, commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."[3] Chomsky's 1994 book quotes Jefferson's 1825 letter to Giles and then comments that "[Jefferson] warned that that would be the end of democracy and the defeat of the American revolution."

http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/end-democracyquotation

How much welfare and food stamps did they get in Jefferson's day? Just curious.

 

[Gracie]

Thanks for the response, SS.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Speaking of foodbanks and churches. Here in my neck of the woods, there are a few churches that give out food on a weekly basis. I never go, but the roomie does, and so does the inlaws. They have to draw a ticket with a number on it, then wait. Some people get there hours early, write their name on the bag, leave the bag in the line, go somewhere, then come back and get in the line where their bag is. First ones in the door get the pick of the food, so those WAYYY back there? They are shit out of luck. And, what is worse, the food being given is dated 2011 and some 2012. Nothing is 2013 expiration. And the meat, if any is there? Rotten. Stinks. I told the roomie to stop bringing her meat home...if she wants meat, I will share some of mine. And the canned food? Watch for bulging cans..of which there were quite a few. I say shame on the church for handing out poison.

UP here, you can sign up on the "moose call" list. When a moose it hit by a car or train, they call down the list until someone responds and agrees to come salvage the meat. An average sized moose can yield 600 lbs of meat. That'll feed a family for a good while.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Hungry?

Seriously?

I have yet to behind a shopper whipping out their card (though foodstamps is still used as a generic term) whose cart doesn't spill over with far more than what I am purchasing with monies earned from an actual job.

We should
1. Put the work requirement rules back into place for the abled
2. Provide education and work programs. We allowed these people to get fucked into this position. The least we could do is make it easier.

 

[ScienceRocks]

3. The people that really can't can still use the welfare program safety net.

 

[Sunshine]

Speaking of foodbanks and churches. Here in my neck of the woods, there are a few churches that give out food on a weekly basis. I never go, but the roomie does, and so does the inlaws. They have to draw a ticket with a number on it, then wait. Some people get there hours early, write their name on the bag, leave the bag in the line, go somewhere, then come back and get in the line where their bag is. First ones in the door get the pick of the food, so those WAYYY back there? They are shit out of luck. And, what is worse, the food being given is dated 2011 and some 2012. Nothing is 2013 expiration. And the meat, if any is there? Rotten. Stinks. I told the roomie to stop bringing her meat home...if she wants meat, I will share some of mine. And the canned food? Watch for bulging cans..of which there were quite a few. I say shame on the church for handing out poison.

UP here, you can sign up on the "moose call" list. When a moose it hit by a car or train, they call down the list until someone responds and agrees to come salvage the meat. An average sized moose can yield 600 lbs of meat. That'll feed a family for a good while.

They made eating road kill legal in TN. Shame to let that nice deer just lie there and rot!

 

[gallantwarrior]

Congress beats up on the hungry - Chicago Sun-Times

Starting Friday, food stamp benefits will be trimmed back because a temporary boost from the 2009 stimulus bill is expiring. More than 47 million Americans — one in seven — will see less food on their plates. A family of four, for example, will get $36 less a month. That might not seem like much until you consider the average household monthly benefit is only $287. The Congressional Budget Office expects spending on food stamps in fiscal 2014 to fall by $5 billion.

As a result, the Illinois Hunger Coalition says, more than 2 million Illinois residents — including about 349,000 seniors and 886,000 children — will have to tighten their belts just as home heating bills are about to soar.

And it could just be a step on the way to more cuts. Both houses of Congress have passed bills that would further trim food stamps, technically known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The House would cut food stamps by $4 billion a year and would tighten eligibility. The Senate bill would cut just $400 million. Talks on a compromise bill began Wednesday afternoon.

SNAP critics, alarmed that the government’s tab for food stamps has more than doubled since 2008 to almost $80 billion, say the program needs to be scaled back. But that’s not taking into account how many people are struggling financially. Although about 20 percent of the increase is due to the stimulus, which is ending, much of the rest is due to the struggling economy, as more people’s incomes drop to levels at which they qualify for aid.

I guess all I can say is I am glad my grandparents are dead, and nobody in my extended family is in need. I cannot think about those who will be affected. My government refuses to - so I can't.

I do hope everybody sees the disconnect between "this is a Christian nation" and "we are done feeding the hungry."



Nearly 1 Million Vets Face Food Stamps Cut | Military.com

About 900,000 veterans and 5,000 active duty troops face cuts in their food stamp benefits beginning Thursday as $5 billion is automatically trimmed from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program for low-income families.

"The coming benefit cut will reduce SNAP benefits, which are already modest, for all households by 7 percent on average, or about $10 per person per month," according to an analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.

"Nationwide, in any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families in 2011," according to an analysis of census data, the Center's report said.

Anybody else wondering why corporate welfare is good, but helping our fellow Americans is bad?

As a result, the Illinois Hunger Coalition says, more than 2 million Illinois residents — including about 349,000 seniors and 886,000 children — will have to tighten their belts just as home heating bills are about to soar.

This is awful!
Does this mean the inner-city obesity rate will drop?

Only if they shiver enough calories away.