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Cigar
11-06-2013, 09:29 AM
http://www.nationofchange.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_main_image/FoodStampCutsHurtMillionofAmericans110613.jpg

The beginning of November always marks the start of the holiday season. On the morning of November 1st, stores swapped out their Halloween displays for Christmas decorations and radio stations began playing round-the-clock carols.

But November 1 marked something else for nearly 48 million who receive food stamps: an automatic reduction in the already modest benefits. The cut, which comes from the expiration of a boost included in the 2009 stimulus bill, will reduce benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by an average of 7 percent. That will mean a loss of about $9 per person per month or $36 a month for a family of four. Food stamps will now be, on average, less than $1.40 per person per meal.

The cut would hurt at any time of the year, but it will be especially painful because of the coincidence with the holiday season, already a struggle for many low-income families.

Patricia, a single mother of two children ages 10 and 12 who works in home health care for the elderly and relies on food stamps, told ThinkProgress that the reduction is going to make her holidays “extremely hard.” “There will be a strain,” she said, but added, “I will do my very best to make sure my family will still have a wonderful holiday season.” It’s just unclear what that will mean because she isn’t sure yet how much less she’ll see in food stamp benefits. It may include going to a food pantry for help.


The real 'War on Christmas'.

http://www.nationofchange.org/food-stamp-cuts-will-bring-hardship-holidays-1383734231

Blackrook
11-06-2013, 11:08 AM
You realize that Obama's to blame for this don't you? They diverted money from food stamps to Michelle's healthy school lunch program:

http://www.inquisitr.com/1015832/food-stamp-cuts-michelle-obama-spends-the-money-on-healthy-school-lunches/

Captain Obvious
11-06-2013, 11:12 AM
...gawd

Mister D
11-06-2013, 11:16 AM
Campaign against hunger? The war's over. The nation is obscenely fat.

Blackrook
11-06-2013, 11:19 AM
That is true. Go into any poor neighborhood and you'll see so many fat people. How can people be fat and hungry at the same time, Cigar?

Captain Obvious
11-06-2013, 11:25 AM
That is true. Go into any poor neighborhood and you'll see so many fat people. How can people be fat and hungry at the same time, Cigar?

Because they don't have access to good food.

Go into shit neighborhoods, tell me how many grocery stores you see.

Then count the fast food and junk food joints.

nic34
11-06-2013, 11:31 AM
You realize that Obama's to blame for this don't you? They diverted money from food stamps to Michelle's healthy school lunch program:

http://www.inquisitr.com/1015832/food-stamp-cuts-michelle-obama-spends-the-money-on-healthy-school-lunches/

You do know the N in SNAP Nitrition as in Child Nutrition Act? :facepalm:

Captain Obvious
11-06-2013, 11:32 AM
You do know the N in SNAP Nitrition as in Child Nutrition Act? :facepalm:

Can someone translate this?

nic34
11-06-2013, 11:33 AM
That is true. Go into any poor neighborhood and you'll see so many fat people. How can people be fat and hungry at the same time, Cigar?

You are as ignorant as those "fat" people if you think it is only caused by eating too much....

nic34
11-06-2013, 11:34 AM
Can someone translate this?

You do know the N in SNAP means Nitrition as in Child Nutrition Act?

Libhater
11-06-2013, 11:35 AM
Can someone translate this?

Not I.

Mister D
11-06-2013, 11:38 AM
You are as ignorant as those "fat" people if you think it is only caused by eating too much....

No doubt lack of exercise plays a role. :wink:

keymanjim
11-06-2013, 11:38 AM
Can someone translate this?
I think that he said he was a meat popcicle.

Blackrook
11-06-2013, 03:36 PM
The reason there's no grocery stores in poor neighborhoods is that the local people burned them all down and looted them during riots. Insurance companies will not insure anyone who wants to rebuild a grocery store at the location, so they remain empty.

http://www.negroartist.com/WATTS%20RIOTS/#