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

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

You say that now, but what if you LOVED Cheetos and Kit Kats and tomorrow you found out you would be forced onto SNAP the rest of your life here on Earth.

I'm reasonably certain at some point you wouldn't also like a Cheeto or Kit Kat once in a while, especially if you were on SNAP through the fault of others.

Let's face it, something sweet or tasty is one of the most basic needs in a person's life, a basic pleasure, probably why many go on to be chef's and cooks.

Life is long and painful without at least a little pleasure once in a while. The State offers a certain food credit to people in severe need but it is up to the individual to pick and choose what to spend it on, either way, the cost is still the same.

One dollar's worth of chocolate costs just as much as one dollar's worth of Veal.

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Flour, sugar, butter, cocoa powder, baking powder, cheese, cornmeal and nuts can create something just as tasty as candy bars and Cheetos. Unless you're working a job, you can get off your ass and make it yourself from ingredients on the non-junk-food side of the list.

I also make damned good ice cream.

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[yidnar]

So democrats are supposed agree to no backpay for government workers, no ACA subsidies, no reversal of Medicaid cuts, and no SNAP funding? Ok. No, this shutdown is soley on the GOP who want to destroy the country under their dear leader.

Largest federal workers union urges Congress to pass ‘clean’ stopgap, end government shutdown — a big blow to Dems

The largest union of federal workers in the country is publicly imploring Congress to pass a “clean” stopgap measure to end the government shutdown, ramping up pressure on Democrats to …

nypost.com

 

[JWBooth]

So democrats are supposed agree to no backpay for government workers, no ACA subsidies, no reversal of Medicaid cuts, and no SNAP funding? Ok. No, this shutdown is soley on the GOP who want to destroy the country under their dear leader.

If only those claims were true, I'd be solidly on board.

 

[Nostra]

Summary

The program activities of most federal agencies are generally funded on an annual basis through the enactment of regular appropriations acts. When those annual appropriations acts are not enacted by the beginning of the fiscal year (October 1), one or more continuing appropriations acts (commonly known as continuing resolutions or CRs) may be enacted to provide temporary funding to continue certain programs and activities until action on the regular appropriations acts is completed.

There are six main features of CRs.

First, CRs have provided funding for certain activities (coverage), which are typically specified with reference to the prior fiscal year's appropriations acts.

Second, CRs provide budget authority for a specified duration of time. This duration may be as short as a single day or as long as the remainder of the fiscal year.

Third, in recent practice, CRs have typically provided funds based on an overall funding rate rather than in specified amounts.

Fourth, the use of budget authority provided in the CR has been prohibited for new activities not funded in the previous fiscal year.

Fifth, the duration and amount of funds in the CR, and purposes for which they may be used for specified activities, may be adjusted through anomalies.

Sixth, legislative provisions—which create, amend, or extend other laws—have been included in some instances.


https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46595

 

[citygator]

Calypso Jones

You going to back up this claim?

 

[toobfreak]

Flour, sugar, butter, cocoa powder, baking powder, cheese, cornmeal and nuts can create something just as tasty as candy bars and Cheetos. Unless you're working a job, you can get off your ass and make it yourself from ingredients on the non-junk-food side of the list.

Sure, unless you suffer some sort of serious physical impediment or something.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Sure, unless you suffer some sort of serious physical impediment or something.

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Good point, but most of the disabled folks I've known have had help that could help them accomplish eating better.

But, yeah, I get you. I have those times when nothing but a Three Musketeers will do.

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[progressive hunter]

 

[progressive hunter]

 

[Mr Natural]

The SNAP program averages out to around $40 per taxpayer per year.

Whoop-de-*******-doo!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Are you gonna sit here and tell me she didn't? That I wouldn't know? People affected by these shutdowns were NOT owed back pay. EACH TIME Congress had to vote to give it to them. Back pay was not guaranteed, never is.

That is why she collected unemployment.

When was this 1990?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What you think does not jive with reality.

It may not jive with your reality.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The SNAP program averages out to around $40 per taxpayer per year.

Whoop-de-*******-doo!

That's $40 I could use for my own groceries.

 

[toobfreak]

Good point, but most of the disabled folks I've known have had help that could help them accomplish eating better.
But, yeah, I get you. I have those times when nothing but a Three Musketeers will do.

The problem is that I agree with you, what you say probably DOES apply to MOST of the people in the program. Certainly many. It is the remaining, what, 10-20% who really need and deserve the program that fall between the cracks that I worry about.

 

[Mr Natural]

That's $40 I could use for my own groceries.

Pettiness is a sacrament to you people.

 

[Lisa558]

It also speaks to the caliber of the people, from certain areas, that we let in.

 

[Crepitus]

Why would anyone vote for a Democrat after being lied to for 12 straight years?

YOu seem a bit confused. Let me help:

False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Trump told 30,573 lies during his four years in office, but it just doesn't matter in today's low-road politics

When did the low road become the busiest thoroughfare in politics? When did notoriety eclipse character in public life? And how did psychopathic lying so easily relegate facts to the outer limits of irrelevance?

www.hilltimes.com

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-inflation

A Legacy of Lies: Examining Donald Trump's Record-Breaking Dishonesty | MABEL | Western Washington University

cedar.wwu.edu

Opinion | Trump's lie meter is running full steam

Dave Zweifel: Donald Trump uttered 30,573 falsehoods during his first term. If his first day in office is any indication, he'll easily break that record.

captimes.com

 

[80zephyr]

When was this 1990?

Nope. She retired in 2023. She was hired in 2004.

 

[80zephyr]

It may not jive with your reality.

No, it doesn't jive with "real" reality.

 

[80zephyr]

That's $40 I could use for my own groceries.

And every dime helps to reduce the debt.