First, I encourage everyone to be extra alert in the coming days and weeks if the Foodsatmp program remains unfunded due to the shutdown (which is what I understand will happen). There is a percentage, perhaps large, of FS recipients who will resort to crime to satisfy their basic need for food. Personally I hope I can help people out if they are in my path.
Anyway, the bigger point.... Walmart and other food corps will take a big hit. It could cause a ripple effect in the economy, as in Black Swan. In fact, I wonder how long before cabal handlers tell Dems to cave because the impact on large corps is too great.
But, maybe this is the match to light the fire... hunger causes humans to cross lines. Perhaps that is why the NG is deployed, too.
Anyway, just thinking about my Anon community and hoping you, your families and friends stay safe, and that we each discern the role we need to play day by day as this unfolds.
Godspeed.
Many of the people receiving EBT are abusing the system. There is a need for vast reform. When someone complains because they can no longer get their steak and lobster, come on. Reform EBT: no purchase of sodas or other sweetened drinks including juices with added sugar or high fructose corn syrup, no prepared/processed meals, meats, cheeses (including anything with nitrates), no bakery purchases, alcohol or junk snacks (Ex.: potato chips, Cheetos, Doritos, pretzels). Fresh, frozen and canned fruits, unsweetened juices and vegetables are okay. Beef, chicken, pork, turkey in their natural state are okay. Ban seed oils and products containing seed oils from coverage: corn, soy, vegetable, adulterated olive oils, etc. Also ban fake meats, bugs and other insects from coverage. If you want to buy these products, you can, but not with EBT. Ban sweetened, artificial colors, and preservatives foods from coverage. Anyone found selling their EBT is immediately removed from coverage. Here is a radical thought: limit lifetime coverage to one year. Beyond that time, one must repay with interest any further coverage. This federal aid includes housing, EBT, medical care, school financial aid. One year will provide assistance, not a hand out. Exceptions will be mentally and physically handicapped veterans, permanently or end stage disabled citizens (such as vaccine injured, end stage renal disease, end stage cancer. Establish, free, on-line or in person basic shopping, cooking and, budgeting classes.
Totally agree. And my point was not that they should turn the spigot back on.
The garbage food is really a distraction from what is really going on w/EBT: money laundering and black market.
EBT black market is a cottage industry in poor communities. Get as many signups as possible, buy product, sell it for cash. Product goes to neighborhood "market" and is sold below retail price.
I'm not certain how, but it wouldn't shock me to see pricing corrections if EBT is fixed/improved. Really hope we get it shutdown for a few days just so the full ramifications can be seen. Ain't no one starving in a couple days. Flush 'em out and see what appears.
So you complain that people can buy steak and lobster and then remove basically everything but the fresh meat counter and produce aisle? 😉
The reason all of that crap is purchasable on ebt in the first place is because people spent 20 years complaining that people were buying real food with it while they didn't qualify and had to buy Mac and Cheese and ketchup.
No bakery purchases? No bread or rolls?
Nope. The wheat produced in the U.S. is bad for the gut. The grain and flour industry additives need to be banned. European countries have already done so, their bread is healthier. We, in the U.S., have been screwed in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink.
They have to take us out like that because they ain’t got the balls to try and do it the fighting way! Scared Little Bitches.