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Obama Plotting To Suspend Food Stamps?
Document shows administration has political ploy in arsenal
WND
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Evidence has surfaced indicating the Obama administration was prepared to suspend all food-stamp payments beginning Nov. 1 in a political move to pressure Republicans in Congress to reopen the government and agree to continued deficit spending.
On Oct. 11, while the government shutdown was in force, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, FNS, notified state directors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, commonly known as the food stamp program, to suspend transmission of food stamp funds to the Electronic Benefit System, or EBS.
If the Obama administration were willing to issue such a directive in October, will it do so again when the debate over stopping the government and raising the debt ceiling is scheduled to resume in Congress in about three months?
The USDA shutdown letter, dated Oct. 11, first appeared on the website of the Crossroads Urban Center in Salt Lake City and was confirmed as authentic by the Fox affiliate in Salt Lake City in a report published on its website Oct. 14.
“This is going to create a huge hardship for the people we serve here in our food pantry,” Bill Tibbits, the associate director at Crossroads Urban Center told the station.
“What this means if there’s not a deal, if Congress doesn’t reach a deal to get the federal government back up and running, in Utah about 100,000 people won’t get food stamp benefits,” Tibbits said.
“In other words, tens of thousands of Utah families may not be able to feed their children come November,” the station concluded.
The Obama administration instructed state directors of the SNAP program to take the steps even though the likely consequences were that low-income households with children might not be able to buy food, with the added risk that a sudden suspension of food stamp payments might incite unrest across the nation.
Reposted with permission.
Noooo the avg. family is gonna lose $20 a month, due to a expiring Fed grant. Roughly a .06% loss.
Yep, they like to make an Obamascare out of everything… the last increase had a time limit imposed on it.. by the Wingnuts of the Tea Party..
Even BUSH had more compassion and humanity than these Tea Party Religious Right Billlionaire Jewish Koch Controlled wingnuts..
Considering 50,000,000 people in America rely on food stamps to survive on it gives the government a perfect trigger if their goal is to incite rioting and bloodshed.
What drama over a .o6 reduction. LOL typical fear mongering once again. This site is losing credibility.
I don’t always talk to obama voters….but when I do….I order fries.
its not the end of the world, we have lived beyond our means for far to long , some cuts have to be made for the greater good.
Obama hides in the white genocide Silence even though our petitions are on the “We The People” site and mainstream sites are forced into reporting on the white genocide opposition:
http://blog.adl.org/extremism/arkansas-racist-billboard-part-of-white-supremacist-strategy
Obammy is scared.