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Biggest Food Stamp Hike Ever, Thanks to Bidenflation

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Posted By: Black Conservative Voice, 10/8/2022 6:38:10 AM

Food stamp benefits are increasing by 12.5 percent as families grapple with grocery prices that have skyrocketed under President Joe Biden. Under the maximum benefit, a family of four on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will see their payments increase from $835 to $939 per month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) noted the change would be implemented in October and last a year, CNN reported.

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What about those of us who don’t depend on the government and are suffering under this regime?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: petrichor 10/8/2022 7:03:38 AM (No. 1298559)
I thought the poor ate a lot of rice and beans. At $31 a day they're eating way better than me.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Yuban 10/8/2022 7:42:02 AM (No. 1298572)
Now I know why so many of them are overweight.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Rinktum 10/8/2022 7:44:15 AM (No. 1298575)
When government dependency is a lifestyle instead of a helping hand in times of trial, self-respect is replaced by entitlement. It doesn’t take long to believe the government owes you. Incentive to work goes out the window and what is created is generational misery and dependency that soon turns into resentment. All the programs in the world will not help an individual who wants to remain unemployed and dependent. It appears to fuel violence and anger. LBJ’s the Great society has ruined so many lives and democrat policies are determined to keep that failed policy going. It may sound trite but people need a hand up, not a hand out. However, that will not work until the mindset of the people change. The vast majority of Americans worked hard for generations to gain prosperity. It does not come overnight but you can change your life dramatically if you stay in school, learn a trade or go to college, work hard, and get married before you have children. It is an winning concept if you truly wish to better yourself. The self-imposed dependency is not permanent. It just takes the desire to want to live a better life and do what it takes to make it happen. America gives amble opportunities, but you have to go after them. If you do, you can change your life.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bigfatslob 10/8/2022 7:53:51 AM (No. 1298583)
From the looks of those big fat Herford cows with their obese children in tow I see shopping SNAP should be reduced to bread, milk and eggs only. Pamphlets with instructual diets handed out with junk foods not being covered.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Mushroom 10/8/2022 8:21:56 AM (No. 1298604)
I'm living on a fixed income, it's not huge but enough that I don't need gvt support. But a $31 day buffer? oh yeah. I could do that!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: southernboy 10/8/2022 8:23:48 AM (No. 1298606)
#4 Check out the carts. 10 lb. tubes of 75-25 hamburger, stacks of drumsticks and wings, 10+ bags of chips and cases of Gatorade. No wonder they turn sideways to get in the door!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 10/8/2022 8:33:33 AM (No. 1298614)
More and more people on the government dole. Making people dependent is a critical way to break them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Lawsy0 10/8/2022 8:33:42 AM (No. 1298615)
Yes, but will they all vote Democrat for the ''next hundred years?''
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Reply 9 - Posted by: F15 Gork 10/8/2022 8:35:31 AM (No. 1298616)
A government dependent American is a good democrat voter.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bighambone 10/8/2022 8:37:06 AM (No. 1298619)
Another October surprise for food stamp recipients who Biden and the Democrats believe are a good portion of their likely political supporters and voters. The US Government has actually created big-time “double dipping” in these food programs through both food stamps plus free” breakfasts, lunches, and dinners provided through the public schools. The reason for that is that there is no guarantee that many of the children of adult food stamp recipients will be fed by way of the food stamp payouts that can be fraudulently sold off for cash in inner city “communities” at a rate of 50 cents on the dollar, sometimes with food retailers being involved in that fraud. So the school run nutrition programs are being used as sort of a food fallback for those children.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: berthabutt 10/8/2022 8:44:13 AM (No. 1298628)
Wasn't there a big to-do about the largest SoshSecurity COLA coming soon under Santa Joe? Hmmmm~bet those seasoned citizen voters polled too conservative to get theirs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 10/8/2022 8:44:52 AM (No. 1298630)
There are no recent stories of arrests in connection with food stamp fraud investigations. The FBI must be too busy dispatching swat teams to the homes of anti-abortion protesters and citizens who were not present in WDC on Jan. 6.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 10/8/2022 8:46:14 AM (No. 1298633)
$4 is correct, much of the "food" in those carts would not have been legal to purchase with government assistance in years past. $31 could feed an Ethiopian family of 12. With the raise, do those families get new "Wide Load" signs? I don't care what they eat, I do care that I'm paying for it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: udanja99 10/8/2022 8:57:22 AM (No. 1298650)
All done for one purpose - to further tax and destroy the middle class.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: jj1319 10/8/2022 9:05:22 AM (No. 1298657)
It's easier to jump over them than to walk around them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: downnout 10/8/2022 9:05:47 AM (No. 1298659)
The cost of living increase for Social Security will come out in mid-October after the CPI for September is announced. It’s expected to be somewhere between 8% and 10%.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: cor-vet 10/8/2022 9:27:54 AM (No. 1298688)
Reparations? We can cut veterans benefits and delay SS, but we'll always have money for our government employees and our gimmedats!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Safari Man 10/8/2022 9:29:48 AM (No. 1298689)
Biden already increased food stamps 25% not that long ago. It’s one of the big reasons why we have so much inflation. Food stampers don’t give a damn what groceries cost.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 10/8/2022 9:41:09 AM (No. 1298702)
Biden you cheater, we thought you, Klaus, and the Great Reset crowd were going to start having them and us eating bugs. So the cost of bugs has gone up 12.5 percent then?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: marlon 10/8/2022 9:42:51 AM (No. 1298703)
And this folks is one of the reasons we can't find people to work. Why work 40 hrs a week to make let's say $40k when there's net $12k in food stamps, another $10k in rent subsidy, another $5k for heating oil, $3k in childcare benefits, and now in some places another $12k in guaranteed income. Boom a $2k raise and you haven't even had to get off the couch!
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Reply 21 - Posted by: padiva 10/8/2022 10:27:49 AM (No. 1298745)
September and October are the months when food stamp amounts increase......just before the election........to remind the peons who they should vote for. Benefit adjustments will be made in January.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: 3XALADY 10/8/2022 10:44:37 AM (No. 1298754)
And this right here is why you find a 40% likeable factor for Diapers in the polls.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: MDConservative 10/8/2022 10:44:45 AM (No. 1298755)
An individual gets $218 a month for food stamps, which are supplemental to all the other "free stuff" the "underprivledged" are given? That's MORE than we spend a month on groceries for the two of us, and we aren't starving, nor close to it. A few years ago I saw a study done in Wisconsin for two "identical" families of four - one with earned income, the other with zero earned income. To match the "free stuff" of the zero income family, the other had to earn over $60,000, and pay taxes, etc. And that was years ago. Wonder what a current study would reveal.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 10/8/2022 10:59:00 AM (No. 1298772)
Wait until Social Security hits.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: FunOne 10/8/2022 12:00:46 PM (No. 1298830)
You can bet the folks on social security will not see that kind of an increase--and they were forced to pay into i=that fund all of their employed life. It made for a large nest egg for the federal government to raid.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: westsnoop 10/8/2022 1:46:23 PM (No. 1298903)
Seniors are getting hammered. I bet they don't get a 12.5% increase in their Social Security.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: moebellini3 10/8/2022 2:05:08 PM (No. 1298910)
Well, well, well, the democratic plantation gets another raise. This is how they keep'em on the plantation. It's called bribe a vote. The only people suffering in this country are the people who actually work for a living and pay taxes.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: Birddog 10/8/2022 5:32:11 PM (No. 1299043)
My dad is 92yo, his only income is SS. 2 years ago he usually had $150-200 left at h\the end of the month. He has canceled all magazine subscriptions, gave up driving, gave up his license so he doesn't need insurance, canceled his NRA, AARP, AMA memberships, only goes out to eat once a month, his daily glass of wine is 2buck chuck instead of something really good...I still have to make up $200-500mnth to cover the shortfall. He stopped asking me to get steak, shrimp, GOOD bacon,or anything "luxury" for him when I do his shopping...I'm fixin to cancel his cable, $258mnth and all he watches is CNN. HE should get a cost of living increase not 'able bodied' younger people when there are Help Wanted signs out everywhere you look. When the Govt is welcoming Millions of people willing to cross continents to cross this border to get to work...and locals won't cross the street, let alone cross town to get a job....something is WRONG.
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