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The Sword Drops on Food Stamps

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George Zornick * The Nation

A sign announcing the acceptance of electronic Benefit Transfer cards at a farmers market in Roseville, California. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

It’s official: Congress will slash food stamp funding in the midst of a deep economic recession, when more people rely on food stamps than ever before.

Monday night, the Senate passed a five-year farm bill that contained $4.1 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over ten years. This ensures that the only debate now will be about how much to cut—and it’s likely to result in cuts much deeper than $4.1 billion.

The House Agriculture Committee passed a farm bill last month that cut $20.5 billion from SNAP by removing “categorical eligibility” (more on that here), which would take food stamps away from 2 million Americans and hundreds of thousands of children.

That bill has yet to be fully debated and passed on the House floor, and the push to make the cuts even deeper will be strong—conservatives have insisted on even deeper cuts. Representative Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget, for example, called for $135 billion in food stamp cuts, and on Tuesday, twenty-five House Republicans wrote to House Speaker John Boehner to remove food stamp funding from the bill altogether. (They just want the program debated on a separate track, but the barely implicit message in the letter is that they don’t want to be forced to agree to “only” $20.5 billion in food stamp cuts at the risk of killing the farm bill.)

Read more at The Nation: The Sword Drops on Food Stamps | The Nation http://www.thenation.com/blog/174753/sword-drops-food-stamps#ixzz2W830ZOuj 
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    • Jacksdad

      JP Morgan runs EBT, among other welfare programs.

    • afterTrillion?

      People that have to buy everything their family needs based on the fruit of their labor, the sweat of their brow, and headaches about how to keep all the things they are juggling in the air are tired of feeding the hand(s) that bites us. We are raising an entire culture of people whose chosen profession and growing expertise is to become experts at gaming the system, and teaching others how to navigate it too, like Lewis & Clark with an obamaphone on the couch in their underwear.

      • icetrout

        I’m sick of having to compete with illegal aliens for work…they get everything handed to them here in Maryland care of the Md.Governor…Md.Congressmen…Maryland General Assembly…Catholic Church…Lutherans…

    • iamamerican

      Why don’t we just cut their pay, and seize all their assets. Think about it, we might be able to pay down some of their debt. Notice I said [their] debt. There is no telling how much money they have squirreled away in off-shore accounts!

    • Old Harry

      Tis is a Catch 22 situation. The answer is where do you spend the money? Why did John Kerry just give the Egyptian Government 1.2 billion ‘when they want to destroy the USA’ ! Obama should have used these funds internally. This government is just out of control and the Americans are getting what the bird left on the post. If they just eliminated all entitlements, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, and repealed all of the Obama executive orders, and eliminate the Obama ‘care’ legislation, “a tax” and replaced it with a simple law that stated no doctor could be sued “medical cost would drop by 77%”, and then scrap funding on overt operations there would be plenty of money to help those in need. Wars are very expensive and from what I have read about the last 15 years of conflict it has all been for not. Just a thought guys … good luck.

      • Old Harry

        Sorry I meant , “doctors could NOT be sued”

      • ElOregonian

        I’m with you there, Harry. Corporate welfare can be just as insidious as public welfare if it is used to game the system. The more that “Freebies” are dangled out there the harder it becomes to remain self-sufficient in a manufactured banker-created economic recession/depression.

    • Hang all drunkdrivers

      Obozo priints TRILLIONS of dollars and gives it to his banker buds but he refuses to print mere billions to give to the poor!!!

    • Ideas Time

      People need to understand that when those who become too many depend on someone else to feed them, they will surely over run the ability for those who produce to take care of them and support them. It is a numbers game pure and simple. My best advice is to not have so many kids so you can get welefare because in the end you will be the first to suffer. Too many of anyting in a fenced pin with litimed resources will starve to death without outside feeding.

    • Duane Howard

      My mother worked full time as a nurse. She worked so hard she fried her brains out, and is now suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. She gets disability, she signed up for food stamps, and they gave her $16.00 a month worth.

      When I am at the grocery, I see Somalians that don’t speak one lick of english with grocery carts full of red meat and it’s all going on a food stamps card. I know they haven’t work in America as long as my mother has. :!:

      • Pix

        Hard work does not cause Parkinson’s disease. It’s caused by the lack of a vital neural substance called dopamine. You are jealous that other people less fortunate get more help?

        • cece

          Jealousy? That’s what you took away from Duane’s post? Let me school you a little. It’s anger that people are feeling. It’s hopelessness that people are feeling. No one is jealous of people less fortunate getting more help, but people who get that help who haven’t paid into the system and who are living and eating better than working class citizens, is very frustrating.

        • Anonymous

          “No one is jealous of people less fortunate getting more help,”

          well duane is certainly upset, but you might be right.. it might not be jealously.. it could simply be racism..

          “but people who get that help who haven’t paid into the system and who are living and eating better than working class citizens, is very frustrating.”

          i also think youre confusing frustration with racism here…

          i mean if race wasnt an issue… why even mention somalian? .. he says he knows that these people havnt worked hard as his mother… no way could he know anything about them just by looking at their grocery cart..

          maybe that was their first one for a year and theyve been saving up? fact is.. he can not possibly know…

    • Anonymous

      Four-point-one billion dollars over ten years sounds like a LOT, huh? Let’s look at the numbers…

      …That’s 410 million dollars per year. There are, right now, roughly 47 million people receiving “food stamps” in the United States. If the program is cut by 410 million dollars ($410,000,000 — that looks bigger, doesn’t it?) per year, that means that the average recipient will “lose” about $8.72. Per year. About seventy-three cents per month.

      Oh, the AGONY!

      • Seanathen

        To be fair, this cut only applies to about 2 million of those people, per the article. So please read the article first and then re-do your math.

        • Anonymous

          Assuming that this is true (It’s not!), the “loss” will still be only seventeen bucks a month. Most of these folks also smoke, and cigarettes are over five bucks a pack around here. How much do they REALLY have to give up to “make up” the shortfall? Don’t get me started on how much they piss away on tattoos, lottery tickets, booze, dope, and so on.

          I read the article, and I am, obviously, a good bit more realistic that you will ever be. Sorry about the cuts in your benefits, pal, but I’m tired of paying for you and your slacker army.

    • Anonymous

      It should be cut to ZERO! “If a man does not work, neither shall he eat” – The Apostle Paul.

      • wunmansho

        Just goes to show you how the modern practices of men are not just in denial of thier maker but fully intend on replacing him…not doing what He said at all.

    • Upaces

      A HUGE amount of $ would be saved IF they would stop giving food stamps to people who are illegal;
      people who have jobs;
      take them away from the Muslims who are NOT U.S. Citizens;
      Stop allowing Mexican Citizens STILL in Mexico receive food stamps; and yes they were UNLESS it recently stopped;
      There are also people in making huge sums of $ in D.C. as well as doing EXTREMELY Well $$, who also receive food stamps.

      In Texas alone, years ago, IF you had a car at all, you couldn’t get food stamps. They figured you could sell your car and ride the bus to work IF you live in an area that has public transporation.

    • YellowRoseTx51

      Propaganda my dear. More than 101 million are out of work in the US alone. Most stats don’t include the kids graduating every month; nor the teenagers looking for work to help their families; nor the people that have been out of work longer than 3 months; nor the people who are now listed as ‘indigent’ because the bank stole their homes & left them in dire poverty; nor does it include the people still without homes due to ‘weather anomalies’ like Sandy; that figure does include them. The last stats worldwide, is that there are 2 billion people without work. Then, you have that on the sly, bait and switch with the Trade agreement just passed and all the corporations are taking OUR money and OUR MATERIALS overseas.

      People go on food stamps because they don’t have enough to eat and to keep the lights on at the same time. They don’t know its a racket. I found out when we went through cancer in ’95. I’d rather starve than go through that meat grinder again. What this will do is free them. Then they will stand up against what is being done with the seizures from the farms and the alterations by Monsanto, to our food. That peanut farmer in got prison for deliberately killing those people for profit. Monsanto got a bill passed for their protection. When the population finds out that what the peanut corp did was to hundreds of people, and Monsanto DELIBERATELY…did worse and Monsanto did it to millions…(I have to emphasize that, they spent billions of our money & committed scientists & resources, with full knowledge that this was going to kill. They worked very hard to do this. Altered laws, altered seeds…)
      Anyone else notice the “bloating” everyone is mistakenly calling ‘fat/obesity’ and the legs going ‘numb and burning’ that everyone is calling a “pinched sciatic nerve”? Or the number of increase in people with serious life threatening dental problems? Teeth breaking at the gum that is being called “gum disease”? Anyone else notice that the parasite screening doesn’t find the parasites?

      By Law we are supposed to have a food bank with 3 months supply for every man woman and child. Bush sold it to the Chinese years ago. So when starvation mode hits, I expect that this will force people to take a stand.

      Do you choose to continue the System of Slavery set up in Babylon – “corporation & 5 day work week were all fruits of labor are seized as tribute (to the ‘god’ corporation owned by the “Merchants” who are the Federals, the lesser nobility); Commerce; Taxation on Man; banking & money system; religions & covens; pharaohs, kings, & corporate government bodies”? It was all one system set up by the “Babylonian Slave Queen.”

      Or do you choose freedom? The law is “nothing of the old may go forward”. You don’t doubt “Free Will” is a Law, so don’t let propaganda fool you into thinking that the other ‘Laws’ aren’t real as well. It is the way things work here, it was built into the system.

      It was built in, that at the end of each cycle, people would start waking up. Because of a real war, this time, everyone is now waking up and catching on to the fact that they have been lied to.

      It was not ‘one thing’, they have been lied to about EVERYTHING. “N.A.S.A.” is “Never A Straight Answer’, they lied about everything. The ‘Money system’ DOES not work the way people today have been taught. ‘Government’ is not who you thought they were, nor do they work for YOU. ‘Corporations’ were created as the specific entrainment system for the Left Hand Path, (service to self; a ‘sociopath’) of ‘SET’(An) whom the Hebrew called ‘Solomon’, and this was taught in Commerce History and is specifically removed now. ‘Covens & Religions’ were not representing the branch of Man nor the Father of Man, they were created by and for, representing the Branch of SET and that is the trick that was played. SET was the “Leviathan Class Serpent of the Abyss” that invaded “Eden” – and that’s why we called Covens & Religions ‘Snake Worship’.

      In the Esoteric Laws, now removed, It is Law that “At the end of each cycle is the “Division of the Families”, and the “Time of the Gathering.”

      The ‘Families’ is the division of those who choose SET – the Left Hand Path – a sociopath.
      The cold blood murderers for whom no other life has value to them, save their own; people who are possessed of an extreme nature of hatred, if its not ‘those mexicans’ or ‘those blacks’ its something else; those who would steal a nickel and for money would lie, cheat, and watch others die for their profit; and those who Knowingly bound themselves by Oath and others by Blood pacts, to Serve SET whom common man called ‘Satan’. This is a PERSON, whom is ‘deified’ by his followers but he is not a myth, he Exists. He is listed in the Coptic records as the Father of the Branch of Reptiles, and the two offspring branches were the latin speaking “El(ohiem)” (babylon “illi/illu” & “illumi” & parasitic) whom are the “greys” & propagandized in the movie “Host”; and the ‘annunaki owl’ the Sumerian speaking Moloch, whom are represented by the movie “Fourth Kind” and are the “owlman of cornwall” – Lilith/Inanna is queen. The Nepli of Hollow earth, are his. The Law states those who choose SET, stay with SET; and, “SET may do as he wishes to his own Family”. He may have Nibiru cross, he may cast some into the Abyss(Pit). He keeps his slave systems, and all are slaves of one level or another – ‘dog eat dog’. SET created endless cycles of predator prey and harm, within Matter (they never leave, and are never allowed to regain their memories), to twist the spirit into High service to self in order to create the Highest Level of Demonic Entity. That is his purpose, in Nature; and, in Nature Evil is parasitic, it must have good to feed on it can not exist without it. Good on the other hand, is not parasitic and does not require evil to exist.

      The father of the Branch of Man is Adam in Saxon, in the Coptic record he is called “ATUM” the “All Father”. The Divine Couple were Adam & Eve, who ‘created All Life on the Tree of Life’. The Esoteric Law is that All 13 Tribes belong to the All Father. This is the Right Hand Path, Service to Others, and Good. Those who ‘do’ good and treat others well, and ‘choose’ good and get ‘hot’ over injustice; these belong to the all Father at the time of the Division. At the end of the Cycle, the Eye opens (a lens – in the sun) and this construct ‘Creation’ Emits them. All of this information was removed. They altered the terms ‘Creation’ and ‘Heaven’; I found that interesting. The “Creation” is defined as “A Construct”; “Heaven” is our ‘place of origin’ which are the worlds of the 13 tribes, outside of the Construct, which is “above” us in Vibratory rate.

      In order to be a part of the divine, you have to be of “good heart”. That is something the reptile branch, which are racially incestuous, and sociopaths by choice, couldn’t steal, beg or barrow from our race. They have no conscience, and are physically incapable of “having a care” of anyone or anything, except themselves.

      The purpose of the ‘dissenting’ propaganda, ie Social security/food stamps – ‘those slackers’; Federal funds/immigration & hidden Bonds – ‘those mexican’s stealing our jobs’; and other like phrases, is to make you ‘have no care’ of these people. To make you angry at the victims, is to be able to claim you ‘do service to self’ and therefore SET keeps you.

      The division occurs within ‘the blink of an eye’ because you are dealing with Energy & Light. If you are ‘hating those people’, or choosing the slave system of money over life, then the energy is different. It is a low vibration which makes it sink to a lower level…SET’s level (“hell”). If you are of a higher vibration, you go through and UP(“heaven”). It is not a ‘rapture’, not ‘jesus’ or ‘mary’, these are part of the propaganda. This is why the Egyptians later said your heart had to be light as a feather. When the Eye opens all the way, the EM field which is the NET Ra put over us, will fail and you will ‘meet’ your ‘double’. This is your ‘spirit’ which acts like a separate entity. That meeting will lift the veil, and all the memories that SET wiped, will return and you will know who you were and are, and where your family is. Unfortunately, you’ll remember this war without the hidden blinders, you’ll remember they tortured us. Then we move.

      SET made a copy of our origin. This place is a poor substitute, filled with poisons and parasites. That’s why it was said, no one who sees above would ever want to return to this place.

    • YellowRoseTx51

      Propaganda my dear. More than 101 million are out of work in the US alone. Most stats don’t include the kids graduating every month; nor the teenagers looking for work to help their families; nor the people that have been out of work longer than 3 months; nor the people who are now listed as ‘indigent’ because the bank stole their homes & left them in dire poverty; nor does it include the people still without homes due to ‘weather anomalies’ like Sandy; that figure does include them. The last stats worldwide, is that there are 2 billion people without work. Then, you have that on the sly, bait and switch with the Trade agreement just passed and all the corporations are taking OUR money and OUR MATERIALS overseas.

      People go on food stamps because they don’t have enough to eat and to keep the lights on at the same time. They don’t know its a racket. I found out when we went through cancer in ’95. I’d rather starve than go through that meat grinder again. What this will do is free them. Then they will stand up against what is being done with the seizures from the farms and the alterations by Monsanto, to our food. That peanut farmer in got prison for deliberately killing those people for profit. Monsanto got a bill passed for their protection. When the population finds out that what the peanut corp did was to hundreds of people, and Monsanto DELIBERATELY…did worse and Monsanto did it to millions…(I have to emphasize that, they spent billions of our money & committed scientists & resources, with full knowledge that this was going to kill. They worked very hard to do this. Altered laws, altered seeds…)
      Anyone else notice the “bloating” everyone is mistakenly calling ‘fat/obesity’ and the legs going ‘numb and burning’ that everyone is calling a “pinched sciatic nerve”? Or the number of increase in people with serious life threatening dental problems? Teeth breaking at the gum that is being called “gum disease”? Anyone else notice that the parasite screening doesn’t find the parasites?

      By Law we are supposed to have a food bank with 3 months supply for every man woman and child. Bush sold it to the Chinese years ago. So when starvation mode hits, I expect that this will force people to take a stand.

      Do you choose to continue the System of Slavery set up in Babylon – “corporation & 5 day work week were all fruits of labor are seized as tribute (to the ‘god’ corporation owned by the “Merchants” who are the Federals, the lesser nobility); Commerce; Taxation on Man; banking & money system; religions & covens; pharaohs, kings, & corporate government bodies”? It was all one system set up by the “Babylonian Slave Queen.” This is why “Morgan runs EBT”, in fact the DHS is a for profit corp, granted a Latin claim of “Divine Powers” by Ratzinger. They are all owned in a pyramid scheme by the Royal, the Papal, and the Federal Covens of Selene. These were called the incorporated “Covens of Azazel” which was Alexander Helios’s Coven Name.

      Or do you choose freedom? The law is “nothing of the old may go forward”. You don’t doubt “Free Will” is a Law, so don’t let propaganda fool you into thinking that the other ‘Laws’ aren’t real as well. It is the way things work here, it was built into the system.

      It was built in, that at the end of each cycle, people would start waking up. Because of a real war, this time, everyone is now waking up and catching on to the fact that they have been lied to.

      It was not ‘one thing’, they have been lied to about EVERYTHING. “N.A.S.A.” is “Never A Straight Answer’, they lied about everything. The ‘Money system’ DOES not work the way people today have been taught. ‘Government’ is not who you thought they were, nor do they work for YOU. ‘Corporations’ were created as the specific entrainment system for the Left Hand Path, (service to self; a ‘sociopath’) of ‘SET’(An) whom the Hebrew called ‘Solomon’, and this was taught in Commerce History and is specifically removed now. ‘Covens & Religions’ were not representing the branch of Man nor the Father of Man, they were created by and for, representing the Branch of SET and that is the trick that was played. SET was the “Leviathan Class Serpent of the Abyss” that invaded “Eden” – and that’s why we called Covens & Religions ‘Snake Worship’.

      In the Esoteric Laws, now removed, It is Law that “At the end of each cycle is the “Division of the Families”, and the “Time of the Gathering.”

      The ‘Families’ is the division of those who choose SET – the Left Hand Path – a sociopath.
      The cold blood murderers for whom no other life has value to them, save their own; people who are possessed of an extreme nature of hatred, if its not ‘those mexicans’ or ‘those blacks’ its something else; those who would steal a nickel and for money would lie, cheat, and watch others die for their profit; and those who Knowingly bound themselves by Oath and others by Blood pacts, to Serve SET whom common man called ‘Satan’. This is a PERSON, whom is ‘deified’ by his followers but he is not a myth, he Exists. He is listed in the Coptic records as the Father of the Branch of Reptiles, and the two offspring branches were the latin speaking “El(ohiem)” (babylon “illi/illu” & “illumi” & parasitic) whom are the “greys” & propagandized in the movie “Host”; and the ‘annunaki owl’ the Sumerian speaking Moloch, whom are represented by the movie “Fourth Kind” and are the “owlman of cornwall” – Lilith/Inanna is queen. The Nepli of Hollow earth, are his. The Law states those who choose SET, stay with SET; and, “SET may do as he wishes to his own Family”. He may have Nibiru cross, he may cast some into the Abyss(Pit). He keeps his slave systems, and all are slaves of one level or another – ‘dog eat dog’. SET created endless cycles of predator prey and harm, within Matter (they never leave, and are never allowed to regain their memories), to twist the spirit into High service to self in order to create the Highest Level of Demonic Entity. That is his purpose, in Nature; and, in Nature Evil is parasitic, it must have good to feed on it can not exist without it. Good on the other hand, is not parasitic and does not require evil to exist.

      The father of the Branch of Man is Adam in Saxon, in the Coptic record he is called “ATUM” the “All Father”. The Divine Couple were Adam & Eve, who ‘created All Life on the Tree of Life’. The Esoteric Law is that All 13 Tribes belong to the All Father. This is the Right Hand Path, Service to Others, and Good. Those who ‘do’ good and treat others well, and ‘choose’ good and get ‘hot’ over injustice; these belong to the all Father at the time of the Division. At the end of the Cycle, the Eye opens (a lens – in the sun) and this construct ‘Creation’ Emits them. All of this information was removed. They altered the terms ‘Creation’ and ‘Heaven’; I found that interesting. The “Creation” is defined as “A Construct”; “Heaven” is our ‘place of origin’ which are the worlds of the 13 tribes, outside of the Construct, which is “above” us in Vibratory rate.

      In order to be a part of the divine, you have to be of “good heart”. That is something the reptile branch, which are racially incestuous, and sociopaths by choice, couldn’t steal, beg or barrow from our race. They have no conscience, and are physically incapable of “having a care” of anyone or anything, except themselves.

      The purpose of the ‘dissenting’ propaganda, ie Social security/food stamps – ‘those slackers’; Federal funds/immigration & hidden Bonds – ‘those mexican’s stealing our jobs’; and other like phrases, is to make you ‘have no care’ of these people. To make you angry at the victims, is to be able to claim you ‘do service to self’ and therefore SET keeps you.

      The division occurs within ‘the blink of an eye’ because you are dealing with Energy & Light. If you are ‘hating those people’, or choosing the slave system of money over life, then the energy is different. It is a low vibration which makes it sink to a lower level…SET’s level (“hell”). If you are of a higher vibration, you go through and UP(“heaven”). It is not a ‘rapture’, not ‘jesus’ or ‘mary’, these are part of the propaganda. This is why the Egyptians later said your heart had to be light as a feather. When the Eye opens all the way, the EM field which is the NET Ra put over us, will fail and you will ‘meet’ your ‘double’. This is your ‘spirit’ which acts like a separate entity. That meeting will lift the veil, and all the memories that SET wiped, will return and you will know who you were and are, and where your family is. Unfortunately, you’ll remember this war without the hidden blinders, you’ll remember they tortured us. Then we move.

      SET made a copy of our origin. This place is a poor substitute, filled with poisons and parasites. That’s why it was said, no one who sees above would ever want to return to this place.

    • Omerta

      With few exceptions, most of these people would be happy on any plantation. Might as well be mine.

    • Freewilloffering

      The welfare rolls are intentionally being built up. These are then people that do not think and act like free citizens and become government slaves and supporters of Obama. When the time comes all their goodies will be shut down in an emergency. They will then be used as “agents of chaos” and organized into “flash mobs” and “agents of change. After they are used like this their number is up.

    • anonymous

      When so many agree that international banksters are destroying the dollar and America by shipping most of our industry overseas, it is beyond normal mental comprehension to see how many of you all think Americans shouldn’t use a parachute like food stamps to cushion the blow. Get a brain and stop listening to Neo Nazi conservatives who really stand with the rich boys in political theorem. The mental sickness of Americans that supposedly are intending to save the republic makes for a depressing realization of the extremely low IQ of Americans in general. The participation in the food stamp program really has little to do with ones dependence on a government program but is indicative of the success of the international banksters hold on the American system as it stands now. Nothing else can rightfully be discerned from the numbers.

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