FOOD STAMP DEBIT CARDS NOT WORKING IN MANY STATES

[cobber]

I wouldn't put anything past the Gubment....

Oh yeah? I'm guessing they wouldn't just close up shop and repeal all the laws they've passed in the last 150 years.

 

[Lebowski]

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“Any society is only three square meals away from a revolution” - Trotsky


I wonder what would have happened if EBT was down for 24, even 48 hours... just glad I don't live in a city

 

[badapples]

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“Any society is only three square meals away from a revolution” - Trotsky


I wonder what would have happened if EBT was down for 24, even 48 hours... just glad I don't live in a city

there would definitely be rioting and looting going on

 

[PistolBob]

News from The Associated Press

This has got to be the Republicans once again, trying to starve children, grandma, and the poor.

there...all fixed now.

 

[UncleMike]

Oh yeah? I'm guessing they wouldn't just close up shop and repeal all the laws they've passed in the last 150 years.

Sure they would.....
If it would give them more power and the opportunity to get their slimy hands on ALL of our income.
Third World countries (Which we will be by the time "0" is gone.) routinely scrap their laws and make up new ones to suite the current regime.

 

[printcraft]

There are rumors from excellent sources that some supermarkets in the Chicago area were mass "liberated" of their goods off from the sheaves by disgruntled customers who couldn't pay for their shopping with their freebie cards.

Well, they are entitled to it............ so..........

 

[buckstopshere]

I imagine if they ended abruptly we would see SHTF. The takers think you owe them something, so expect home invasion, muggings, theft, and robbery to increase in working and upper class areas.

Yep. You could also expect the MSM to blame conservatives and not those poor unfortunate looters who just wanted to eat a free meal.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

I realized this will sound very conspiratorial. . . . . Could have this been done on purpose, a dry run? Was this a way of the government to see real public reaction if/when the hand outs come to a halt.


Not saying this is what I think is what really happened, just thinking out load.

No, the powers that be (Oblama) did it to convince the proles why they need government.
What better way during a government 'shutdown' to demonstrate to the impoverished lazy masses that government is their friend than to show them what they would miss out on if government isn't 'open'? This was intentional, I have no doubt in my mind. It also serves as a threat to the rest of the country who is productive: keep pushing and we'll make this bigger, and then wait for the riots. Two days and these savages would be looting the stores, particularly in severely impoverished areas. Make no mistake, this was done to send a message, deliberately.

 

[actaeon277]

I find it funny (not the right word) that people that DON'T work can continue to receive money.
But the people that do work are laid off.
Benefits not being paid to family members of deceased military.

So where is the incentive to work?

 

[dhnorris]

I believe that food stamps make food prices high. If whatever percentage of the food buying populous could give a **** about what food costs the manufacturers and retailers have a lesser need to lower prices to stay competitive. I tend to think so every week as I feed my seven child family on one income. If the ebter's come to my house whoever the kids don't eat the two GSD's will take care of. (well maybe not....my dogs won't eat the possums they've killed)

 

[STEEL CORE]

Georgia lady was on the local Clayton County Georgia news wondering how she would/could feed her six (6) chillin, wif just seventeen cents on her card, another lady said she and her kid had not eaten a thing all morning, since she had no handout. I feel sorry for them.

 

[wildhair]

No country as rich as ours should ever have fat, starving, people!

 

[Booya]

Just because the system went down doesn't mean they still couldn't use the EBT. Matter of fact the system outage wasn't fully functioning when it came online, AND TO THE BENEFIT of many EBT holders...

[h=2]No limit EBT = Shop til' you drop.... Or not?[/h]

 

[traderdan]

No country as rich as ours should ever have fat, starving, people!

Yup...High starch,low fiber diet paid for by us working fools! (Need eye bleach now)!

 

[ClydeB]

+1 on the eyebleach!

There were two newsworthy glitches that day.
1. The national EBT problem with Xerox. - Access restored for food stamp users, Xerox says
2. Cards in Springhill and Mansfield Louisiana started showing no limits while the system got back up. Guess what happened Walmart shelves in Springhill, Mansfield, cleared in EBT glitch - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & Sports

There is no way Obama wants to alienate his support base right now. Can you imagine the chaos if they did include welfare / ebt in the shutdown?

 

[BogWalker]

Georgia lady was on the local Clayton County Georgia news wondering how she would/could feed her six (6) chillin, wif just seventeen cents on her card, another lady said she and her kid had not eaten a thing all morning, since she had no handout. I feel sorry for them.

Do they just time it so they have zero food left on the day they get their card? I mean jeeze, nothing in the pantry at all? Nobody starves in America, and the constant Democrap line about the poor, starving children is BS. Malnourished, maybe, but nobody starves. Heck, they're only malnourished because that's how their family eats. You could give them all the money in the world and they would just eat more junk and fast food.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

I've always said the true "zombie apocolypse" will be when the foodstamps and benefits run out. Then, you'll have them shambling in the streets, going to their neighbors homes.

First, they'll ask for food... luxuries... assistance... Then they won't ask.

 

[jmiller676]

No country as rich as ours should ever have fat, starving, people!

You should be banned...*Que, Paging Que*