How to cheese off your base.

[Scout26]

As if the Obamacare fiasco wasn't enough.  Now he's gonna take food outta my baby-daddy's baby mouf.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/food-stamps_n_4158690.html


Haven't heard a lot about this in the MSM.

There will be millions starving due to those evil Democrats and Obama.

[Hawkmoon]

Same old story.

The Recovery Act's food stamp boost was not supposed to disappear so abruptly. The plan had been to leave the increase in place until inflation caught up through annual adjustments to SNAP benefit levels, which had been expected to happen in 2015. But congressional Democrats essentially raided the cookie jar, using the future planned spending to offset the cost of priority legislation in 2010. They said at the time that they would put the money back before any decrease could take effect, but they have not kept their promise.

How many times have we seen our lords and masters in the legislature do this? Any time they see some money sitting there, even when it's specifically earmarked for some laudable purpose or program, they just can't keep themselves from spending it right now. And no matter how sincerely they promise to pay it back ... they never do.

[zxcvbob]

As if the Obamacare fiasco wasn't enough.  Now he's gonna take food outta my baby-daddy's baby mouf.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/food-stamps_n_4158690.html


Haven't heard a lot about this in the MSM.

There will be millions starving due to those evil Democrats and Obama.

When you DO finally hear about it in MSM, it'll all be "Tea Party Republicans" fault.  Obama is the real victim here; don't ever forget that.  ("Victim" is the new black)

[vaskidmark]

While I understand that millions will suffer, I have little expectation that the low-information voters will understand why food is being taken out of their mouths, and if they do that they will actually blame the Ds.  It's so much easier to whine about why those evil, capitalistic, blood-sucking Rs did not increase the taxes on the 1% to replace the money.

Pamela Gwynn of Crawfordsville, IN seems to not comprehent what that first word in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program means.  Yes, living on SSA Disability is difficult at best.  But dammit, the .gov supposedly told her that they expected her (regardless of her actual ability to do so) to cover approximately 60% of her food budget on her own.

For a short period of time in my life I was living hand to mouth on an income that was about $100 short of covering rent, utilities, and food.  SNAP gave me $47/month (later cut to $41).  The shortfall was made up via the local food pantry (Thank you for being there) since I could not afford Meals on Wheels.  Working at the food pantry 6 hours per week* to be given more than enough to get me by for the week was a better than fair trade-off.  I saw lots of folks on SSA/SSDI but darned few on TANF coming through the doors, and heard more than a few comments at the grocery store from folks in that group saying they would never get food from the food pantry.  My level of sympathy for them when they lose benefits is lower than the proverbial whale's ****.

Ever since returning to being independently poor I make sure every time I shop for groceries to buy stuff to put in the food bank bin.  It may be no-name generic but I lived off that stuff without complications.

stay safe.

* - and the local church volunteers who were working on "my day" to volunteer picked me up & brought me home.  Saved me $7.50 in welfare-rate bus fare.

[Gowen]

Oh SNAP!  Hate it when that happens.

[just Warren]

I've heard rumors that grocery stores bump their prices around the first of the month, maybe they'll throttle back on the increase a bit. Not the the moufs will notice or appreciate it of course.

[TechMan]

When you DO finally hear about it in MSM, it'll all be "Tea Party Republicans" fault.  Obama is the real victim here; don't ever forget that.  ("Victim" is the new black)

This plus eleventy million !!!!!!1!!

[Devonai]

I thought this thread was how to get cheese off your base.    I have cheese on my base, I was thinking a little Goo-Gone or maybe some turpentine?

[Doggy Daddy]

I thought this thread was how to get cheese off your base.    I have cheese on my base, I was thinking a little Goo-Gone or maybe some turpentine?

Get a dog.

[zahc]

I've heard rumors that grocery stores bump their prices around the first of the month, maybe they'll throttle back on the increase a bit. Not the the moufs will notice or appreciate it of course.

They are not rumors. would you expect such a real economic incentive to go unexploited? its hard to fathom otherwise. I know the walmart in Cambridge, Ohio will offer you a coupon price for milk if they see you are paying cash. The pizza shop I worked at there did about double the usual business on the 1st; it was a monthly holiday.

[Gowen]

I've heard rumors that grocery stores bump their prices around the first of the month, maybe they'll throttle back on the increase a bit. Not the the moufs will notice or appreciate it of course.

I spent 13 years as a scanning coordinator (price change clown).  As for the grocery store chain I worked for, they never jacked prices up at the first of the month just to stick anyone.  The buyers spend all month working out deals/price changes for quantity purchases and cost increases.  They send the deals/increases to the pricers who set them for the individual stores.  The prices are sent to the stores for the price changers to hang on the shelves.  Most price breaks start or end at the beginning of the month.  Then the ad's will come from these through the month.  The stores honestly don't have the labor to jack prices up just to nail the food stamp crowd. 

[RoadKingLarry]

Get a dog.

Or a toddler.

[AJ Dual]

I spent 13 years as a scanning coordinator (price change clown).  As for the grocery store chain I worked for, they never jacked prices up at the first of the month just to stick anyone.  The buyers spend all month working out deals/price changes for quantity purchases and cost increases.  They send the deals/increases to the pricers who set them for the individual stores.  The prices are sent to the stores for the price changers to hang on the shelves.  Most price breaks start or end at the beginning of the month.  Then the ad's will come from these through the month.  The stores honestly don't have the labor to jack prices up just to nail the food stamp crowd. 

Besides what's posted above debunking the myth, EBT cards have been de-rigeur for a decade or more now most everywhere, and they generally load on random days of the month depending on the initial time of application, plus some random factor like the last digit of the SSN or alphabetization of the last name.