??? Government Freezes EBT Funds: Orders States to Withhold Transfers to Food Stamp Recipients

FLASHBACK: Food Stamp President Obama Wants You on Food Stamps

Mac Slavo

This weekend America witnessed a limited crash in the computer systems that manage electronic benefit transfers across the country. Within hours of the crash panicked food stamp recipients who were left with no way to feed their families rushed grocery store shelves to obtain everything they could while the system was down.

The outage lasted less than a day, but it proved what many already knew, that America had become a nation so dependent on government subsidies that any glitch in the system could lead to total pandemonium.

But if you thought that isolated incident was bad, imagine what could happen next month.

We say next month because the USDA, which oversees the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), has just issued an order to SNAP agency directors calling for their respective States to implement an emergency contingency program because of government funding issues. In a letter obtained by the Crossroads Urban Center food pantry, the USDA is directing state agencies to, “delay their November issuance files and delay transmission to State Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) vendors until further notice.”

What this means is that should Congress fail to increase the debt ceiling this week, come November there will literally be millions of people in the United States who will have exactly zero dollars transferred to their EBT cards.

What will happen to the nearly 50 million people who depend on these benefits to survive?

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Permalink Reply by karen arsenault on October 16, 2013 at 8:31am

look what happened at wally world when the computer crashed..http://www.ksla.com/story/23679489/walmart-shelves-in-springhill-ma... think whats going to happen when the shift comes.

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Permalink Reply by Hawkeye on October 16, 2013 at 10:54am

I find it surprising that people are acting so shocked. The yoke of servitude has been gladly donned by entitlement pimps and ho's for decades. The liberal agenda is quite simple, create two classes of citizens, the Privileged, and the workers who service them. The electoral college in the US has been stacked over the years, by increasing the numbers of unions, welfare program recipients, and immigrants in critical swing states; and now that they are majorities, they are not going to vote themselves out of a free ride. Obama's push to get people enrolled in and dependent upon these systems is a calculated act. What happened the other day was a deliberate act to get panicked people to rally behind the democrats. But what is shows is this. Every one of these programs has an off switch and it will be used to herd the sheep.

Lawyers comprise a large portion of legislators and this should scare you; lawyers do not serve justice, they forge words and seek loopholes to get the guilty a reduced sentence or off completely. The do not serve ethics, but only serve their own greed for money and lust for power. A lawyer's job is to twist the truth in anyway that serves their objectives. And these are the people who we trust to lead us and handle our lively hoods?

There is only one sure way to turn this tide and keep it in check, strict term limits for politicians period, no more professional politicians.