Foodstamp Program Shutdown Imminent?

reply to post by skuly


This, plus the Social Security being held hostage and Veterans benefits, etc, etc. I think that this admin wants a brew-ha, as my Grandfather used to say. (BTW, if I say I want a brew-ha...I mean beer)

This week is going to be pretty interesting.

reply to post by TDawgRex


I'm surprised that JPMorgan is allowing this.
They are goign to take a profit it.

I'm sure JPMorgan is about to Unleash their lobbyists on washington.

reply to post by grey580


Just look at the Franco-Prussian war.

History repeats itself.

BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T FREAKIN' PAY ATTENTION!

the only time governments get overthrown is when the people go hungery. this could get ugly fast.

when the people have nothing else to lose, they lose it.

I don't understand...The US has enough money to have the greatest fighting force in the world,but not enough to feed the folks who really need it.Reminds me of another country that existed pre WWII.

reply to post by TDawgRex


Another silver lining?

Maybe we start throwing speculators in jail again

~Tenth

crazyeddie68
I don't understand...The US has enough money to have the greatest fighting force in the world,but not enough to feed the folks who really need it.Reminds me of another country that existed pre WWII.

Or North Korea. Soldiers everywhere you look but they have to photoshop food into their pictures.

reply to post by tothetenthpower


I never knew we threw speculators in jail. Please enlighten me.

Unless you are talking about tar and feathering the rascals.

reply to post by TDawgRex


Actually we use to hang them.

Back in the 1600's and straight up until about the early 20th century. It wasn't until the international money markets started getting popular that we didn't.

~Tenth

reply to post by skuly

got to love it if the USDA is closed how in the Sam H3lls name did it get sent? USDA link for SNAP er EBT er food stamps www.usda.gov... from the link

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Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available.

After funding has been restored, please allow some time for this website to

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For information about available government services, visit usa.gov

To view U.S. Department of Agriculture Agency Contingency plans, visit: www.whitehouse.gov...


Message from the President to U.S. Government Employees

another FOX NEWS you fell for it fear mongering?

Just went to this link www.whitehouse.gov... and no updted report or issued report form USDA on Snap er food stamps/ EBT report. someone will have egg all over their face when this gets out.

If the USDA is sending these letters out they either know something or have little faith. What a screwed up system. Why not cut something less dire?

reply to post by bekod


And why would the USDA make this public? Short answer is they wouldn't. This type of statement would have been sent at a state level and for individuals on a need to know basis, not for general public consumption. If they are going to shut down EBT cards the people won't hear a word about it until they go to check out and realize they don't work just like the glitch that happened this past weekend.

BTW: The USDA is not shut down, their website was taken offline as a non essential service. They are very much running and fully functional.

reply to post by skuly



It looks like Obama plans to crash the economy and instigate massive food riots in November. This will be blamed, naturally, on the Evil White Racist Tea Party Republicans. American Pravda, (ABCNNBCBS, the NYT, the WaPo, the LAT) will dutifully serve as Obama’s microphone for this scapegoating.

“States across the country are being told to stop the supplemental nutrition assistance program for the month of November, pending further notice. That’s according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Fox 13 obtained a copy from the Crossroads Urban Center in downtown Salt Lake City. Crossroads says if Utah families don’t get food stamps, they’ll turn to the local food pantries, which are already strapped due to the government shutdown. Homeless people Fox 13 talked to, some who use SNAP, say losing food stamps would mean going hungry.” Fox 13, Salt Lake City, October 14.

Last Saturday’s hours-long EBT “glitch” led to mass panic and near riots in 17 states. Was that just a “warning” from the regime to the GOP to extend his infinite debt ceiling pronto, “or else?” If the EBT system is shut down for even three days, every supermarket will be looted, and riots will sweep our cities that will make 1968 look like a picnic. This is not an accident, this is deliberate.

We’ve seen this kind of deliberate provocation before: Reichstag Fire, anyone? I’m beginning to feel like it’s Berlin, 1933, and my name is Goldstein. And the new “Berlin Zeitung” will be the NYT and the Washington Post.

Fox story from last night as ref’d by Matt here:

Utah families on food stamps could be cut off soon

Verbatim below to help thwart the Memory Hole:

States across the country are being told to stop the supplemental nutrition assistance program for the month of November, pending further notice.

That’s according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Fox 13 obtained a copy from the Crossroads Urban Center in downtown Salt Lake City. Crossroads says if Utah families don’t get food stamps, they’ll turn to the local food pantries, which are already strapped due to the government shutdown. Homeless people Fox 13 talked to, some who use SNAP, say losing food stamps would mean going hungry.

“This is going to create a huge hardship for the people we serve here in our food pantry,” says Bill Tibbits who is the Associate Director at Crossroads Urban Center.

They posted a letter from the USDA on its Facebook page. It says in part, “in the interest of preserving maximum flexibility, we are directing states to hold their November issuance files and delay transmission to state electronic benefit transfer vendors until further notice.”

“What this means if there’s not a deal, if Congress doesn’t reach a deal to get federal government back up and running, in Utah about 100,000 families won’t get food stamp benefit,” says Tibbits.

In other words, tens of thousands of Utah families may not be able to feed their children come November.

People out on the streets like Richard Phillips says, “It could impact us and it’s going to cause problems because you’re going to come to find out that people are going to steal and do what they have to do to survive.”

“People out here are going to go without food,” says Loralee Smith whose been homeless since August and says the uncertainty is making her uneasy about where her next meal will come from. “I’m on food stamps, I don’t know if I’m going to get them, a lot of people are on food stamps and they don’t know if they’re going to get them.”

Others say if SNAP shuts down, they’ll find a way to feed themselves.

“There’s always food pantries to go to, to get food,” says Mason who is homeless and relies on food stamps. However, Crossroads says there’s no way they could handle the increase if food stamps go away.

“We’ll be affected because if people, if a family doesn’t get food stamp benefits, they’re going to come here,” says Tibbits. “Wee can’t, there’s no way we could deal with it.”

The local pantries are already feeling the pinch because WIC, a federal program which provides baby formula and food to families in need has been affected by the shutdown. With SNAP on the chopping block temporarily, Crossroads fears their shelves will soon be empty.

Spread far and wide please – by any means necessary.

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Wait till you have 10 million Lil Waynes in gangs going house to house . There taking it all including family. So there is the end result of tolerance and looking the other way to all this garbage ghetto fabulous welfare lemme git mindset Jay-z lebron james eminem worship mentality puke.

If that's legit and it's really going to happen this way for more than a few days? Well.. Yeah... that's correct about the 15th being the start of benefit issuance ... and that's today. These damn fools have been almost happy to see most of America being told this won't impact them and don't worry, it's no big deal.

Well...when those people who took it as no big deal ..and didn't stretch food to the last morsel, in the thought it may matter, see no food to come? They're going to have about 10 shades of well founded rage over the coming days. The Government who has told them not to worry will have made every human's worst fear come true in their life. The core and fundamental uncertainty of food supply.

Oh as a psy op to agitate a population into unrest, you have to admire the design of this. Imagine if we were doing this and fully briefed to know, with another nation as the target? Well, things like have been happening for 6-10 months now are precisely what intelligent and patient psy-operators would want, right?

A slow but building and always increasing tempo, sense of urgency and doom ..leading into?....Eh? Anyone got a little meat for the dinner pot? A little tea for the kettle, perhaps?

Damn them all.

reply to post by dntwastetime


So just the blacks are gonna be a problem?
Nope. No racism in that post, none what so ever.

Isn't Crossroads a Koch brothers thing? or am i thinking of a different Crossroads?

hal4511
reply to post by skuly

 

It looks like Obama plans to crash the economy and instigate massive food riots in November. This will be blamed, naturally, on the Evil White Racist Tea Party Republicans.

And no doubt their will be plenty of idiots who will believe him. It will be ironic ... the first black president and under his regime the inner city ends up rioting and looting and blaming the white republicans for the situation caused by the black president. It's almost like a hollywood movie script ...

My my what interesting times we live in. Slowly boiling the frog.


But then again, we have been close to the end before and nothing ever happened. We all know that by tomorrow the debt limit will be lifted.

And even so, technically the administration has about a week past the deadline until SRHTF.

Thorneblood
reply to post by dntwastetime

 

So just the blacks are gonna be a problem?
Nope. No racism in that post, none what so ever.

Isn't Crossroads a Koch brothers thing? or am i thinking of a different Crossroads?

Last time I checked Eminem was still white, and I am pretty sure he/she was referring to their mentality and not their race. Although I have been wrong before.