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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 29, 2013, 07:53:06 AM
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cali (89,006 posts)
Huge Food Stamp Cut Goes Into Effect Friday
Food stamp recipients face a massive benefit cut set to kick in when stimulus funds expire Friday. The nationwide cut “is equivalent to about 16 meals a month for a family of three,†according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis using the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan.†CBPP called the roughly $5 billion annual cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program “unprecedented†in “depth and breadth.â€
“If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,†Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City, told Salon Monday. Purvis said that the looming cut would mean about 76 million meals “that will no longer be on the plates of the poorest families†in NYC alone – a figure that outstrips the total number of meals distributed each year by the Food Bank for New York City, the largest food bank in the country. “There will be an immediate impact,†she said.
“The fact that they’re going to lose what’s basically an entire week’s worth food†each month, said Purvis, “it’s pretty daunting.†She told Salon that while policymakers “are attempting to punish people for being poor,†and “people are comforted by believing that they know that a person has to have done something wrong in order to be poor,†in reality, “I can tell you that more and more folks have more than one job and are still needing help.†(As I reported last week, audio recorded by a McDonald’s worker-activist showed a counselor on an employee hotline encouraging her to sign up for food stamps because it “takes a lot of the pressure off how much money you spend on groceries.â€) Purvis added that cutting food stamps was “not even good business sense,†because each dollar of food stamps infuses over $1.70 of spending into the economy.
“We were all told that these cuts for November 1 would not happen,†said Purvis. When “they decided they were going to take from some of the increases to food stamps†to fund First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move†program, she told Salon, “We were told, you know, by the president…these cuts will not happen, we won’t get rid of the program. Well guess what? November 1 is around the corner, and no one has restored that money.â€
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http://www.salon.com/2013/10/28/riots_always_begin_typically_the_same_way_food_stamp_shutdown_looms_friday/
BTW -- these EBT increases were from the "Stimulus" back in '09. Apparently Clinton, who did not have a Stimulus level of food stamp funding left people to die in the streets.
BTW -- does this now make salon.com a racist publication?
hobbit709 (28,485 posts)
1. French Revolution, "Little Father, give us bread", history is full of this.
Ancient Egyptian dynasties fell during crop failures.
And a reminder, the article says this:
“If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,†Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City
Sounds to me like the Proglodytes are trying to drum-up a little stochastic terrorism.
AzDar (9,017 posts)
12. The $$ increases were taken to fund Michelle O's " Let's Move " program?
Doesn't seem like a good idea...
Yeah, really.
Conservatives resent the "Let's Move" program by its very nature and when was the last time any of you sofa rats moved?
Talk about throwing good money after bad.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023941801
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16 missed meals divided among 3 people equal 1&1/2 days.....or let the kid eat free breakfast at school for a week.
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16 missed meals divided among 3 people equal 1&1/2 days.....or let the kid eat free breakfast at school for a week.
Do you really need that 3rd bucket of chicken and fried mozzarella sticks for breakfast?
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Do you really need that 3rd bucket of chicken and fried mozzarella sticks for breakfast?
Yeah, a person missing a couple of meals could dip below the weight level required for SSDI.
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Sounds like Amber will have to "fill up" in the washes a little more then before.
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Laelth
16. The article is a hit job.
That said, it's still a bad idea to cut SNAP, and I hope the Republicans can be made to pay for it at the ballot box.
The truth is a hit job if it doesn't agree with kooks like you. Got it.
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Let me get this straight...tax cuts to keep money in producers pockets that are set to expire are evil to continue but spending programs that put money in the hands of useless parasites should continue forever.
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Let me get this straight...tax cuts to keep money in producers pockets that are set to expire are evil to continue but spending programs that put money in the hands of useless parasites should continue forever.
You may be a slow learner but I believe you've got it........and a lesson learned the hard way is like a dollar earned the hard way, you hold on to it longer.
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We were told, you know, by the president…these cuts will not happen, we won’t get rid of the program.
Kinda like you can keep your doctor and insurance if you want to.
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Good. That program is out of control--mooching has reached an all time high.
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This is going to put a big hit on top end Nikes, 20 inch rims, and gold teeth sales.
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Less is more, DUmmies.
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Food Bank CEO Suggests Welfare Cuts May Spark Riots
http://www.infowars.com/food-bank-ceo-suggests-welfare-cuts-may-spark-riots/
The CEO of the largest food bank in America has suggested that planned cuts in food stamp benefits set to take effect on Friday could spark riots.
Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City, told Salon.com that the expiration of stimulus funds, which will see the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reduced by $5 billion dollars, will have an “immediate impact†and represent a recipe for civil unrest.
“If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,†said Purvis, adding that families face the “daunting†prospect of losing a whole week’s worth of food every month.
I know this is from Infowars. There could be rioting if food stamps are cut. I am for cutting food stamps as they are wasted. I rather have a private non-profit do it than the government. Government screw things up.
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Food Bank CEO Suggests Welfare Cuts May Spark Riots
http://www.infowars.com/food-bank-ceo-suggests-welfare-cuts-may-spark-riots/
I know this is from Infowars. There could be rioting if food stamps are cut. I am for cutting food stamps as they are wasted. I rather have a private non-profit do it than the government. Government screw things up.
Oh, I have no doubt that Barry's sons and daughters will riot over this. They need no reason to act like animals.
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Oh, I have no doubt that Barry's sons and daughters will riot over this. They need no reason to act like animals.
I'll have to stock up on 00 Buck for me, and pepper spray for my wife . . .
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... pepper spray for my wife . . .
Most wives just say they have a headache.
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