Comments on: More food stamp cuts coming

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 23:10:14 +0000

The theory is go ahead and feed them or they will take over the super markets and become mortified finding juice and milk magically don’t originate there!

Eat more government cheese!

By: LetItCollapse

LetItCollapse — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 19:41:40 +0000

Did you know that the Federal food stamp (SNAP) program expenditures have grown from $18B in 2000 to about $85B in 2012?

And since the recession ended in 2009 or 2010 (according to Obama)the number of SNAP recipients (about 47M) grew until just recently when it declined in 2013 by a fraction of a percentage (about 2-3/100th of one percent).

Did you know that JP Morgan, the ‘too big to fail’, administers the EBT program for 24 states and 2 US territories? The government pays JP a flat rate per SNAP recipient. According to reports up to $2.30 per head, depending on the EBT cardholder benefit package. So the more recipients, the more money JP collects. Also, JP charges each state to use the EBT Point of Sale (POS ) machines found at the various retail food outlets. These record the electronic sales and transfer the data to JP. JP charges AZ about $14.95/mo for each machine. In 18 of the 24 states JP is said to have made over $560M since 2004 on the EBT programs. Some data is not reported (confidential) so the total revenue is not available to the public.

It’s reported that JP spent $82M on political donations to Agricultural committee members in the House and Senate in 2002. By 2010 that amount increased to $333M.

Swipe yo EBT – it’s free!

By: RT

RT — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:56:05 +0000

“These recipients would only be able to collect limited benefits — up to three months over a three-year period — unless they worked more than 20 hours per week or enrolled in job-training programs.” Yes this is true. In fact, in California,
Counties have the option of providing the “CalFRESH” (FoodStamp) Employment and Training program to assist clients in becoming employed or going to school. However many counties do not offer this program. This is a shame as this program would help CalFRESH clients find work.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:19:29 +0000

Come on…..everyone needs a break now and then. Perhaps, if you take a few months off and eat the government cheese you may be more tolerant of human misery out there.

– pass the Del Taco hot sauce packets please!

By: LetItCollapse

LetItCollapse — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:03:31 +0000

Hold it a second! I thought we came out of the recession in 2010? Isn’t that what Obama told us? So why hasn’t the food stamp enrollment dropped significantly with the ‘improved economy’?

IS SOMEBODY LYING TO US AGAIN?!!!

Looks like they’re going to need to cut back on food stamps to pay for the medicaid expansion under ObamaCare. They are expecting 20M NEW medicaid enrollees by 2017 in the 27 liberal states that allow the medicaid expansion under ACA.

Do you realize that since the US began the ‘war on poverty’ (entitlement programs) that the out-of-wedlock births in America went from 7% of all live births to 40%?

Do you realize that a single mom with an out-of-wedlock child is 5 times more likely to live in poverty?

Do you realize that those who live in poverty are about 8 times as likely to commit or become victims of murder?

Do you realize that California has 12% of the nation’s population and 33% of the nation’s welfare recipients?

Have widespread entitlement programs helped or hurt us as a nation?