We better be prepared for what might be coming our way on November 1st or in the near future. This story from Salon certainly does nothing at all to quiet talk of potential riots breaking out across America as soon as Friday. She also predicts “a very tough Thanksgiving” and warns of an ‘immediate impact’. Is THIS why tanks are headed to NYC as shown in the first video below? The second video below examines November 1st in more depth
Food stamp recipients face a massive benefit cut set to kick in when stimulus funds expire Friday. The nationwide cut “is equivalent to about 16 meals a month for a family of three,” according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis using the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan.” CBPP called the roughly $5 billion annual cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program “unprecedented” in “depth and breadth.”
“If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,” Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City, told Salon Monday. Purvis said that the looming cut would mean about 76 million meals “that will no longer be on the plates of the poorest families” in NYC alone – a figure that outstrips the total number of meals distributed each year by the Food Bank for New York City, the largest food bank in the country. “There will be an immediate impact,” she said.
“The fact that they’re going to lose what’s basically an entire week’s worth food” each month, said Purvis, “it’s pretty daunting.” She told Salon that while policymakers “are attempting to punish people for being poor,” and “people are comforted by believing that they know that a person has to have done something wrong in order to be poor,” in reality, “I can tell you that more and more folks have more than one job and are still needing help.” (As I reported last week, audio recorded by a McDonald’s worker-activist showed a counselor on an employee hotline encouraging her to sign up for food stamps because it “takes a lot of the pressure off how much money you spend on groceries.”) Purvis added that cutting food stamps was “not even good business sense,” because each dollar of food stamps infuses over $1.70 of spending into the economy.
“We were all told that these cuts for November 1 would not happen,” said Purvis. When “they decided they were going to take from some of the increases to food stamps” to fund First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” program, she told Salon, “We were told, you know, by the president…these cuts will not happen, we won’t get rid of the program. Well guess what? November 1 is around the corner, and no one has restored that money.”
Some prominent conservatives have questioned the significance of public assistance cuts for the poor. Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kistol contended during the government shutdown that “it’s not going to be the end of the world, honestly, even if you’re on nutritional assistance from the federal government. The state of Arkansas can help out, localities can help out, churches can help out, I believe no one is going to starve in Arkansas because of the shutdown.” Asked about such claims, Purvis said that citing the efforts of groups like hers as a reason not to worry about public assistance cuts was “one of the most ill-informed arguments on the planet.” She told Salon, “the first line of defense against hunger is a food stamp.” While some “have had this way of romanticizing charity,” she said, “charity is also a system that is based on capacity and resources.” Purvis added that politicians “didn’t make any additional resources available to these magical charities that they expect to step in for this devastation that’s geared at the poorest of Americans.”
Purvis said she and her colleagues are “begging” Congress to pass legislation by December to restore the expired funds. Rather than “trying to raise a dollar” to avert disaster privately, she said, a solution will require Americans to “raise their voices,” because “the avenue has to be activism.” In the meantime, she predicted “a very tough Thanksgiving.”
This is a SCRIPTED event. With so many relying on the government (by design), it’s just a matter of WHEN they want to INDUCE riots so they can proclaim the need for martial law and thus suspend the Constitution in order to keep Obama in office after his term is up, grab your guns and roll out the tyranny!
Turning off the EBT cards after some cutbacks will be the likely catalyst. The resent “snafu” was a viability test of concept…
”Riot systems are on stand-by…awaiting further instructions”…
And yet these fucks can send millions upon millions to that shitty little cuntry Isntreal while people here starve.
I don’t care if there are riots. I don’t for see any happening in my town. What n-words and other undesirables we have here will watch their P’s & Q’s. Other folks that rely on SNAP will find a way. This is a tight farming community and there is always food for all. As far as the rest of the country, especially places with a high n-word and other population, have fun with that. Many of those places were happy to push ‘diversity’. Now they are going to see the ‘benefits’ of it.
That video of the tank being transported is hype, spreading fear mongering BS. I’m sure that if the U.S. were preparing for operations involving tanks, they would be using – at the very least – modern M1A1 Abrams tanks, carried by RAIL, and not WWII era Sherman tanks, carried by COMMERCIAL TRUCK…
DOH… EPIC FAIL!!!
Military recruiting will take a hit with this half baked budget cut. Almost a million vets are affected by this cut. It’s bad enough so many of them are disabled poor, and homeless. Now Boehner and his buddies are trying to starve them to death. Hey John, Mitch, Ted, these people are not lazy. They got this way fighting in wars your party started.
Poor africans will soon be sending food aid to america
There’s a road, a yellow brick road, straight to Fema…..! James M Nunes, “people riding the rails” yes, in chains to Fema.
Buddy can you spare a dime? Root hog or die. First the jobs have been outsourced off shore and the safety net has been pulled out from under the working poor. What is next, rent and energy assistance? I will tell you what is next, Hooverviles or squater camps and people riding the rails.