Coming soon to a theater near you: famine! The second film in The Hunger Games trilogy, “Catching Fire,” opens wide on November 22, based on the hugely popular novels of a post-apocalyptic world in which poverty and starvation force young people into a desperate but oh-so-glamorous, televised competition to the death. With the movie’s release come some especially crass and bizarre product tie-ins, including the Cover Girl Hunger Games assortment of nail polishes called “Capitol Colors” (the name makes sense if you’re familiar with the books or films) and my personal favorite, the Subway Restaurants line of "Fiery Footlongs," described on the MTV News website as “Sriracha-powered hoagies that hope to cure the hunger games happening at lunchtime in your tummy.” So let me get this straight: fast-food submarine sandwiches are being used to market a motion picture about people who will do anything to survive a dystopian society in which there’s nothing to eat? Yikes. All this might be even more darkly comic if not for the fact that here in the real world, Washington is playing a Hunger Game of its own and the results are devastating. Yes, winter is coming, the holidays are on their way, and on November 1, the United States government cut food stamp benefits by 13.6 percent. To those of you who aren’t deficit hawks circling over the Potomac keeping a precise count on this sort of thing, this will constitute a Federal budget savings of $5 billion for fiscal year 2014 and another $6 billion from fiscal 2015 through 2016. Meanwhile, this has a real and drastic impact on every one of the 48 million Americans – that’s one in seven of us – who receives the aid, now officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. (The cut marks the end of extra funding that was put into the program as part of the stimulus package in 2009.) Forget the crude stereotypes and clichés, by the way: close to half of the households receiving help from SNAP......
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Hiya mystery;) so sad what the propaganda people do. When people are really hungry I am afraid they will do anything and that's not good .. Using food as a weapon has to be a one way ticket to hell for the people who do it to others ..

Hiya suzie ;) long time no talk. You are right when people start not being able to feed their families is when the SHTF scenario will come to a head. It will be very important then to have stores that No one knows about but you and yours. Hungry people will be hard to communicate with and harder to control. 

You are also correct about the one way ticket to hell...because that's where these bastards are headed when the SHTF. Everybody knows who they are nowadays. No where to run and no where to hide, they have abused every country on this planet.

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