My food stamps got cut!

[Archae]

Yes, I'm on food stamps, and they were cut.

From $95 a month to $90 a month.

This isn't a commentary on the food stamp cuts, it's just my own experience.

[Puzzledtraveller]

1. I hear it daily.

For various reasons.

[sharp_stick]

2. Well now

that will really cut back on the caviar and filet mignon part of your food budget won't it?

I hate Republicans and pretty much everything those greedy fucks stand for. I hope things improve for you soon.

[Archae]

12. Since I'm single, the cut doesn't affect me badly.

But my sister, who has a teenage daughter still at home has been affected, rather badly.

Meanwhile...one of my relatives is a Teabagger, and gets farm subsidies.
He gets red-faced mad when I bring that up.

Wants to cut "welfare," but his own? Hell no!

[AndyA]

3. I'm sure you are OK with the sacrifice so that people like Rmoney

and corporations like ExxonMobile can continue to hide money overseas, not pay taxes, and indeed get subsidies from the government, right?



I'm sorry that the people who can least afford the hardship are the very ones being hurt the most by it. It's wrong in so many ways.

Sending good thoughts your way, and hoping that this outrageous situation ends soon.

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. How will it end?

The allotments went back to what they were prior to the Recovery Act.

[AndyA]

9. New people in Congress is how it will end.

People who understand they work for the American PEOPLE, not CORPORATIONS.

Minimum wage must be raised to a level where it is a LIVING WAGE. Just picking an arbitrary number like $10, $11, or whatever won't do it. We need to see what it really costs to survive, and set a minimum wage that allows that to happen.

Same goes for food stamps. Instead of helping a little, they ought to provide enough food for the family so they don't have to starve just a little less than going completely without food. $95 doesn't hardly buy anything at the grocery story today.

Since the country still hasn't "recovered" from the recession, it would seem we need a Recovery Act II, along with jobs bills, changes in tax code so everyone pays their fair share, etc. I'm afraid the only way that will happen is for the American people to start paying attention and vote these idiots out of office.

[closeupready]

13. But WAIT! Corporations are people, my friend.

If they work for American corporations, they're working for ... American people!

[HereSince1628]

5. Although eligible, I find myself psychologically unable to accept them

Historically this has been a fight between myself and my state Vocational Rehabilitation counselor.

Rationally, I understand that I qualify, emotionally I cannot bring myself to do so.

I have a feeling there are at least a couple million like me.

[Kaleva]

6. Mine went from $16 a month down to $15

[LuvNewcastle]

8. Same here. Hope the Defense Dept. enjoys their share of our meager allowance.

[historylovr]

10. I'm sorry.

It's a horrible thing. People have to eat, and they're told things like "the rates went back to 'pre-stimulus' levels" but meanwhile, food prices haven't. To me it's downright heartless to cut food stamps now.

[winter is coming]

11. This is why you need a farm subsidy to fall back on.

[jwirr]

14. And if I am not mistaken this cut is part of the sequester. The one they voted for last week is yet

to come.

[badtoworse]

15. I believe it was a temporary 4 year increase.

It was passed as part of the Economic Recovery Act in 2009 with a provision that it would end on November 1, 2013. On that date, funding was to return to previous levels.

[jwirr]

16. Thank you.

[MFM008]

17. everyone

got at least an $11 cut, Whats funny is a couple of months before mine were raised.

[JesterCS]

18. Mine were as well

$189 down from $200 even

[bluestate10]

19. $95 per month was insane. A single person needs twice that much to eat properly.

A family needs even more. We need to work our asses off to get rid of as many republicans as possible in the 2014 elections, they are toxic.

[RebelOne]

20. When I first started receiving Social Security,

I went online to apply for food stamps and found I was only eligible for $35 a month. I figured that would not buy too much. I have not done it yet, but now if I decide to pursue that claim, I would probably only be eligible for about $30 a month. Big deal! Good thing I am a vegetarian and do not need to buy meat.