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.
Didn’t mean to imply you whine, but all the liberals who always whine that without welfare people will starve. The Apostle Paul said, “ if you don’t work then you don’t eat.” God said to Adam, “by the sweat of your brow you shall eat,” Here's a clip of the 'truly' deserving, all created by LBJ and his Great Society. https://youtube.com/shorts/7Vud5lNuaJ8?si=yE-HAR9s24JG4Qi5
Thanks for that. Totally agree, and the clip is... effective. Saddening, but effective at explaining and showing the problem. The real problem is that the keepers of the program allowed the program to be hijacked by politicians to create dependence. If we fix that, and we have better ways of discerning the truly deserving (the lepers, for example, if you want a Biblical reference), then maybe there's a chance it can be fixed.
On a related note... you can't just rip something away without offering a path to success. I've often struggled with this philosophically. A broken system creates broken people... and if you take away the system and the benefit, you still have broken people who do not have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to succeed in the normal world. And man-o-man have a lot of such broken people been created. So, just like the video clip shows... they will resort to criminal activity. And there are not enough jails to hold them all, for starters.
In Indiana, back in the 90's, they institute a policy where you had time limits to receive benefits, and at the same time skill-building and training and supports were offered to those who had either ended up on welfare or who had grown up in it and who were behind in "adulting". The program was hugely successful. Not sure if it's still like that because I don't live there anymore. Anyway, if we fix one problem and create another, then we're no better off.
I don't know what the solution is, but certainly the idea of reining in welfare is a top priority--we just have to empower people to be successful. And if they choose not to, well... I guess maybe I want to invest in the industry of incarceration, and/or buy and lease cemetery ground.
I think there are ways to limit welfare. LBJ was the architect of the welfare system and in its implementation he destroyed the black family. His rules said no welfare if an eligible working age man is living at the home. So the black fathers moved out for the free money Second, the more children a mother had, the more money see could get. Unwed motherhood exploded, and now welfare moms have 8 or 9 kids.
To fix it :
Just for starters that would reduce welfare by 75% in 5 years.
Love this!!
All the reform they did around welfare, but they left food stamps untouched. At one time, if you were on welfare (cash assistance), you got paid per person. IE you had baby on top of baby, the money went up and up. They finally capped it at one or two kids and you HAD to go to work training, apply for jobs and work. At least some. I think they added time limits later also. But they did nothing about food stamps. The more kids, the more "money". And yes, people buy alcohol, drugs, whatever with them. They just go to the grocery store for the dealer. Or friend who's gonna BUY it.
This didn't happen by the system being hijacked, it was carefully planned and the people that fell for it were born just for this