EBT Payment Shutdown Thread

[Cane Skretteburg]

Apparently most people now need socialized medicine and socialized food. The USA is late 70s USSR style 'mature socialism'. I I was trying to ask on politics thread, go easy on me. Why is there TANF, WIC, SNAP, EBT? Why are there separate obamacare programs and medicaid? Why aren't these reconciled into 1 food program, one welfare program, and one low/zero income health program.

Edit: corrected my dumbass spelling mistakes, but c'mon, why so many damn programs that do that same fucking thing

I have a feeling that it’s intentionally very byzantine. We got EBT as a household and WIC with our first kid because we qualified financially. By the time we had our second kid, we no longer qualified financially for any food benefits. That being said, we still received WIC because our kids qualified for Medicaid and all children who get Medicaid immediately qualify for WIC. My experience with WIC is that it is bretty gud:
-takes pregnant/nursing mother and her child(rens) day-to-day nutrition into account as a factor
-limited to fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy (for the most part) foods.
-it is strictly supplemental

I assume in a sane society run by the correct people a system like ours would be dynamic and would allow the government to maximize nutrition per dollar spent. I assume in our society it serves the opposite purpose and creates avenues for social workers and “community advocates” (my least favorite class of people) to give niggers infinity tax dollars.

 

[Greatest Gonger]

I have a friend who has spent the last however many years in the military, and all they did was station him on an island and teach him how to disassemble and reassemble shit. His housing was off-base and paid for by the government, and he had decent enough internet to play games online in his free time. If you join the military you're basically a game piece to occupy territory, and since we're not actually at war with any countries you don't get to do anything interesting like get crippled by a landmine or stabbed by sticks smeared in shit. This is just a long way of agreeing with you. Joining the military really is just welfare with extra steps at this point. After he's done occupying space, he gets free college and benefits for life too.

Im Canadian, and it is even worse here as our military is by all reports barely functional as an actual fighting force, and yet I think we are somehow even more generous with payment, benefit and having soldiers do nothing their entire career.

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

I'm thinking, there's probably already a big spike in EBT grocery shoppers on the first of the month when food stamps normally reset. And November 1st is also a Saturday, the most common day for grocery shopping. This will be a big news story when it happens, but you gotta assume beneficiaries aren't all super civically engaged, and some may even hear the news late, panic, and run out to the grocery store thinking the deadline hasn't passed yet

So is this just going to be an Armageddon day where at certain Walmarts there will be 30 abandoned carts laying around , cashier 1 is getting screamed at, cashier 2 is trying to explain to a confused person who barely understands English why their card isn't working, people are walking out without paying and there's nothing the doorman can do to stop it

 

[Greatest Gonger]

The military is the manliest job their is. This is soft hand faggot speak for "wah I'm too soft, gib me gibs!"

Get off the government teat and get a real job in the economy, then you can talk to me about soft hands.

 

[Toxic BRAAAAP Mask]

Not gonna lie, I love seeing Shaniqua with 6 inch acrylics who got 3k a month panic when our almost 90 year old gran can only get a whopping 15 bucks a month in EBT.

Various family members here are on it, but unlike the EBT monkeys, we also grow and can food, have church and a community that won't let us starve, and plan for this shit with a rainy day fund so we can survive winter without resorting to mugging people in the street.

I truly hope any Kiwis in need don't feel afraid to take advantage of what is available to them and if you need help with meal planning/recipes or finding nearby resources, we can come together and help one another. I'm not around all the time, but my DMs are always open if anyone needs to talk and I hope others here can do the same.

 

[Stan]

flour, ect

Bakeries have been an economy of scale since like the Roman Empire because flour isn’t that useful to any but the most dedicated home cooks. There’s a genuine efficiency in cooking bread and stuff at a larger bakery and then selling bread to people at a slight up charge, idk the answer to food insecurity is making poors reinvent the wheel so to speak.

But yeah they shouldn’t be able to buy bottled water with their ration card.

Different people are going to judge you for doing literally anything. The solution shouldn't be to just have no standards and let people do anything they want with tax money. It's not asking much for people who get free money for food to spend it on food instead of processed, fortified, reconstituted, flavored corn syrup that just speeds up their heart disease. This stuff is not food. It drives me insane seeing huge bags of Halloween candy here being marked with "accepts EBT". Though I just noticed whey is eligible for food stamps, so maybe it's not all that bad.

I mentioned the use case in which people will buy super processed food (basically homelessness and no kitchen) even though I essentially agree and I wish SNAP encouraged buying more cheap unprocessed food like eggs and cabbages.

WIC actually does that; WIC is much more selective in what you can buy on it, SNAP is super broad and you can get basically any kind of food with it.

 

[mlanguishi]

I have a feeling that it’s intentionally very byzantine. We got EBT as a household and WIC with our first kid because we qualified financially. By the time we had our second kid, we no longer qualified financially for any food benefits. That being said, we still received WIC because our kids qualified for Medicaid and all children who get Medicaid immediately qualify for WIC. My experience with WIC is that it is bretty gud:
-takes pregnant/nursing mother and her child(rens) day-to-day nutrition into account as a factor
-limited to fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy (for the most part) foods.
-it is strictly supplemental

I assume in a sane society run by the correct people a system like ours would be dynamic and would allow the government to maximize nutrition per dollar spent. I assume in our society it serves the opposite purpose and creates avenues for social workers and “community advocates” (my least favorite class of people) to give niggers infinity tax dollars.

Your assumptions are right, the more complicated things are as a government the more nigger women are needed to rubber stamp and email each other.

A simple, efficient system is hated by all governments, even those like slav white people areas. It's not good for business for the worthless.

Those types in any sane world would be moved to admins to being on those 'bennies' and suffer.

The sad thing is they think this will work, but gov funded job placement programs won't. Neither works. Government does not work.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

People have theorized for a while now that a collapse of the EBT system could lead to borderline race war - here's an interesting read that eerily predates BLM: https://www.americanpartisan.org/20...-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/

no it won't, Nigs can't fight in any sort of militarlistic way, it will lead to a chimp out, if the cities supply lines collapse because of it, they'll just fucking die.
Nigs "Wildn" out and stealing what little twinkies are left isn't a race war.

 

[LopsidedLegend]

That may be true, but it doesnt make it less homosexual to join the military. Just get a normal job and contribute instead of being a government parasite.

Every job can be described in such a way to be seen as homosexual.

Chef: You lather spicy liquids and juicy meats together until they are tender while the aroma causes men with money to feel the desire to come into your establishment for the pleasure of tasting your juicy meats lathered in spicy liquids.

Football: You throw and catch a giant doublesided buttplug and every man is either there to tackle you, a move most effective by grabbing at your knees from behind, which often ends with your face in some other man's ass. All while shouting slogans of unity and doing ballerina dances.

Preacher: You dress up in a bunch of expensive suits while a bunch of young boys sing and dance and some old women and men shout and dance about how they worship a Jew and hate a red furfag.

Mosque: See Preacher also doesn't eat pork

Rabbi: they're Jewish

Anime: Self Explanatory

Furfags: See Preacher and Anime

No matter what you do some gay shit will occur. Your job is to entertain the Jews. Ultimately every career is entertain the Jews. If you wish to get paid, you gotta entertain the Jews. Now what form of faggotry is acceptable to you for the monetary compensation.

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

I have been homeless and relied on food stamps in the past. If you’re a farmer who relies on food stamps, please seek out the local food bank. It’ll likely be slim pickings, but take what you can get.

If you’ve got a few bucks, I can offer some hearty and relatively cheap meal options that should last a couple of days. I lived off of beef Rice-a-Roni and ground beef for quite some time. You can get a box of the rice for a little under two dollars most of the time, and a pound of ground beef for under ten. Alternatively, you can buy a can of corn beef hash. Should make a few servings. Hit up Taco Bell or Chick-Fil-A if you need some sauces.

Ya'know a package of hotdogs is real fucking cheap and so is some mac and cheese. There are a LOT of super cheap options for food you just have to accept your diet wont be very diverse.

when I worked register my biggest beef with EBT is shaniqua and her 37 kids come in, having nicer clothes then me, drive a nicer car then me and then proceed to fill a shopping cart up to the brim with shit. Meanwhile people who worked couldn't get ebt and when we went to the store our carts were always meager pennypinching affairs.

 

[Stan]

I don’t get food stamps but with price of beef what it is, i will Probably need to. Where are these cooler inflation figures coming from?

Beef is ridiculous to be fair. My best suggestion is to get a Costco membership and buy lamb instead it’s like half as much

 

[WelperHelper99]

Get off the government teat and get a real job in the economy, then you can talk to me about soft hands.

Nigga. I have a job. You're Canadian. You get healthcare for free. Fuck off

 

[Pew_Pew_Slash]

To quote Dear Sneeder once again:

Stop stealing my money.

When I was a middle schooler and up through my first 2 years of high school I helped my grandparents at their church food and clothes bank every Wednesday in the summer. I ran donations for people, prepared packages for them, and did tons of the heavy lifting so the old folks could sort and organize everything without hurting themselves.

Even now, in pavement ape America I am willing to give my time and body to such a cause, to help, but I refuse to help people that take advantage of me and my hard earned wages.

I am not going to debase myself and ruin my life so Jamal and Shaquanda can make it another week while they rack up thousands in credit card debt.

 

[mlanguishi]

Ya'know a package of hotdogs is real fucking cheap and so is some mac and cheese. There are a LOT of super cheap options for food you just have to accept your diet wont be very diverse.

Hot dogs, I'm so poor now this is my Halloween setup:

 

[AnOminous]

The problem is we have an illegal immigration problem. I imagine most developed countries don’t have illegal immigrants leeching their welfare. It would be one thing to subsidize the dregs of your own citizenry but it’s unsustainable when you become the dumping ground for the 3rd world.

You can bet this won't go well for the dems if our own indigenous welfare recipients figure out the dems did this, and it was because they were absolutely insistent on flooding the country with illegal immigrants to ensure that even IF the government wasn't shut down, they still wouldn't get their gibs. They'd be given to illegals instead.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

They discontinued the penny Johnny...

I meant bennies, good catch.

Probably why Elon threw a fit, I would too if I saw the shit he did, just on the outside you can see the 5x double agencies on stuff and the gov wants it that way yep. It's really sad, you COULD have a decent system that could have a nice safety net, but the powers don't want that, they want a whole class that'll just have enough not to kill them in a riot. They want a poor dependent underclass.

Exactly. People who rely on the government are easily controlled. Nothing makes a person fiscally conservative faster than making money and seeing how much the government takes every paycheck. It's not even for muh fuckin' roads and bridges and schools and shit. It's for lazy fucks and old Boomers to sit on their ass and complain.

If a fucking idiot like me can manage to have a job, keep a budget, and not rely on gimmies to get by, then anyone can do it.

That may be true, but it doesnt make it less homosexual to join the military. Just get a normal job and contribute instead of being a government parasite.

Maybe some of these parasites would learn some discipline in the military. I don't know, but your point is fair enough.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

Don't some insane percentage of Walmart and other massive company employees rely on this shit to make ends meet?

If so, it's basically ending a subsidy for the Walton faggot family.

All retail companies don't pay enough, I'm a professional meat cutter, I get to make double what everyone else makes in whatever place I cut meat at, and its still nothing, a shit wage.
read again, I make Double and then some, and I'm still in poverty, and I also get 40+ hours and no one else is going to get that but managers.

This is the state of like 40%+ of all working class people in America, Covid made it exponentially worse and nothing is being done about it.
I hope this shutdown at least puts a little stink on the faggots in Washington and especially the Federal Reserve, who, all of them, should be slowly tortured to death.

 

[WelperHelper99]

You can bet this won't go well for the dems if our own indigenous welfare recipients figure out the dems did this, and it was because they were absolutely insistent on flooding the country with illegal immigrants to ensure that even IF the government wasn't shut down, they still wouldn't get their gibs. They'd be given to illegals instead.

That's like a high school mental comprehension test for people that never got a GED. You're asking the impossible.

 

[mlanguishi]

I meant bennies, good catch.

Exactly. People who rely on the government are easily controlled. Nothing makes a person fiscally conservative faster than making money and seeing how much the government takes every paycheck. It's not even for muh fuckin' roads and bridges and schools and shit. It's for lazy fucks and old Boomers to sit on their ass and complain.

It's not that, I'm telling you. It's when you're at a place with 100 non speaking English illegals fucks that get ahead in line and walk away smiling and the black lady fights your claims.

That's what this is all about.

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

flour isn’t that useful to any but the most dedicated home cooks.

counterpoint: fried chicken