We have six days until snap/food stamp cards might run out of money…predictions

[1srelluc]

Options:

Dems cave and open the .gov before then?

Dems pass a stand alone bill for SNAP?

States cover the shortfall with their rainy day funds?

Blue cities burn?

IMHO

There has never existed a time in contemporary Western society when the population of "helpless" fat people was larger than it is today....The last I read it's around 47 million in the US on SNAP/EBT.

Because of all the "help" our society has given people, we now have tens of millions of fat people who can't live without that "help".

And we've now reached the point where we don't know what the heck else to do with them.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Options:

Dems cave and open the .gov before then?

Dems pass a stand alone bill for SNAP?

States cover the shortfall with their rainy day funds?

Blue cities burn?

IMHO

There has never existed a time in contemporary Western society when the population of "helpless" fat people was larger than it is today....The last I read it's around 47 million in the US on SNAP/EBT.

Because of all the "help" our society has given people, we now have tens of millions of fat people who can't live without that "help".

And we've now reached the point where we don't know what the heck else to do with them.

Put them on boats and ship them back to North Carolina.

 

[Blisterfinger]

Options:

Dems cave and open the .gov before then?

Dems pass a stand alone bill for SNAP?

States cover the shortfall with their rainy day funds?

Blue cities burn?

IMHO

There has never existed a time in contemporary Western society when the population of "helpless" fat people was larger than it is today....The last I read it's around 47 million in the US on SNAP/EBT.

Because of all the "help" our society has given people, we now have tens of millions of fat people who can't live without that "help".

And we've now reached the point where we don't know what the heck else to do with them.

How on Earth will they get their sugar pop, Fritos and Doritos?

 

[1srelluc]

Put them on boats and ship them back to North Carolina.

I bet Texas would love to be shed of the ones that landed in Houston from New Orleans after Katrina.

 

[shockedcanadian]

All of the above

 

[1srelluc]

Well shit!

MSN

Virginia governor declares state of emergency to expedite food aid during federal shutdown​

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin declared a state of emergency on Thursday to help maintain food aid for state residents as a three-week-long U.S. government shutdown threatens to halt federal benefits.

Youngkin said the move would allow him to use emergency funds to assist Virginians in the absence of federal appropriations to fund the food benefits administered by states.

 

[BackAgain]

If the Dim politicians actually cared about the people in the Dim base, a large percentage of whom are on the dole, they’d finally agree to end the Schumer shutdown.

But they don’t care at all about people. In fact, my prediction is based on that:

They will allow the Schumer shutdown to proceed because it will foment anger in their base. And that anger, in turn, could be weaponized to reclaim some votes from their political opponents.

 

[kyzr]

Options:
Dems cave and open the .gov before then?
Dems pass a stand alone bill for SNAP?
States cover the shortfall with their rainy day funds?
Blue cities burn?

IMHO
There has never existed a time in contemporary Western society when the population of "helpless" fat people was larger than it is today....The last I read it's around 47 million in the US on SNAP/EBT.
Because of all the "help" our society has given people, we now have tens of millions of fat people who can't live without that "help".
And we've now reached the point where we don't know what the heck else to do with them.

I don't like seeing government employees standing in long lines to get food from food banks.
I don't like seeing the WIC or SNAP programs run out of money.

Family Wealth vs poverty. I don't like pinching pennies and then losing elections.

 

[Auld Phart]

as Pelosi would say

Or fancy ice cream.

 

[Woodznutz]

Burn the cities, make S'mores in the flames.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

If the Dim politicians actually cared about the people in the Dim base, a large percentage of whom are on the dole, they’d finally agree to end the Schumer shutdown.

But they don’t care at all about people. In fact, my prediction is based on that:

They will allow the Schumer shutdown to proceed because it will foment anger in their base. And that anger, in turn, could be weaponized to reclaim some votes from their political opponents.

Yep. They’ll let it fester and become a riot and then media blames it on republicans.

 

[Woodznutz]

I don't like seeing government employees standing in long lines to get food from food banks.
I don't like seeing the WIC or SNAP programs run out of money.

Family Wealth vs poverty. I don't like pinching pennies and then losing elections.


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Easily explained.
1. The poor you will always have with you.
2. Many in the middle class have moved to the upper class.

 

[Crepitus]

as Pelosi would say
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Or fancy ice cream.

Pelosi?

You're making shit up.

That's what tRump is saying but he want's them to eat in outside looking at the new Epstein Ballroom.

 

[Eman623]

Pass the ******* CR already!!!

Fun and games time is over. People are going to start feeling real effects.

 

[Auld Phart]

Pelosi?

You're making shit up.

That's what tRump is saying but he want's them to eat in outside looking at the new Epstein Ballroom.

you really are a lemming, aren't you?

 

[Lisa558]

I don't like seeing government employees standing in long lines to get food from food banks.
I don't like seeing the WIC or SNAP programs run out of money.

Family Wealth vs poverty. I don't like pinching pennies and then losing elections.


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Government employees have missed only one paycheck. You mean to tell me that these people, with average salaries of around $100,000, don’t have a month’s worth of savings? Even a lowly GS-5 with a high school diploma still gets around $50,000.

If ANY government worker has gone to a bar for a couple of drinks, bought expensive name-brand sneakers, went out to eat numerous times at Applebee’s or Olive Garden, etc - without having built a nominal savings cushion knowing that a Government shutdown is always a possibility every October - I have no sympathy.

 

[Concerned American]

How on Earth will they get their sugar pop, Fritos and Doritos?

Not to mention their free metformin.

 

[Auld Phart]

Not to mention their free metformin.

glad you mentioned that. I needed to order some.

 

[Blisterfinger]

Not to mention their free metformin.

How will they wash down thier metformin? We need to address this question immediately. Maybe a special session is in order.

 

[Concerned American]

I don't like seeing government employees standing in long lines to get food from food banks.
I don't like seeing the WIC or SNAP programs run out of money.

Family Wealth vs poverty. I don't like pinching pennies and then losing elections.


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Just cursively looking at your graph, I see a roughly 3X increase in the upper 10% and double for the next lower 90%. Considering the difference in investable income, I don't think these numbers are unreasonable at all. I think the graph was an attempt to elicit a knee jerk response from people who won't think critically.