Jackson Jambalaya

So 173k are just lazy and collecting a free check?

But some people love to down others
that gets snap.

i'm betting the majority of the morons posting on yesterdays thread about all the fat lazy SNAP recipients needing to get off the couch and get jobs will be eerily quiet on this one.

This should be verified each year to ensure these are truly in need. Job requirements like 20 hrs per week for those who are able. Adults made these choices to put innocent children into the equation by adult life choices. Thank you for sharing & see what the democrats do.

How to eliminate the 173K ?

"Disabled" does this include too obese to walk around Walmart and have to ride the scooter?
So 23,000 elderly people failed to plan for their old age or retirement so I have to continue to work to fund their poor choices?
139,000 kids that someone else knowingly had, I have to work to feed? How about we start holding folks accountable for their bad choices and quit punishing those of us that have done without, sacrificed and been responsible.

Not exactly. They could be employed but below the poverty line. That’s why a living wage is important. A person can work 40 hours a week for minimum wage and they are still poor enough to qualify for EBT and Medicare.

Now, when I was a younger man without health problems, I worked minimum wage and never thought to try to apply for these benefits. But I now realize that I may have been able to save up for a house much faster had I applied and used EBT instead of spending $30-50 a week of my $189 paycheck buying groceries.

Those numbers are alarming. Disabled and elderly, no problem. 139,000 kids. Look at that number again. There's 176,926 households, take away elderly and disabled and all those kids are in the rest of the homes. Wow. Then there's 173,000 (!) who aren't disable, elderly, or kids. Wow, these numbers are huge. And no, 11:08, some of these are folks who earn below the poverty level and honestly need help, or have lost their job and dont have another one. But yes, some just sit and collect.

And the 49% of able bodied working age adults can use SNAP to buy nerds candy, Nespresso pods, and crab legs. Or they can just sell for cash to buy drugs. Infuriating.

But how many of them are selling the majority of the balance for cash?

you must be a real joy to be around on a daily basis. Just angry at old people for being poor and not planning well enough and angry that our tax dollars support feeding kids in poverty stricken families.

i bet you have the same anger for the 815 Billionaires that have more wealth than 50% of the U.S. Population. ha just kidding, you're just waiting at the teet for it to trickle down.

I would be interested in seeing what the average monthly disbursement per person is, and correlate that with the cost of actual groceries or just junk food, cokes, and frozen meals.

But, but, the 49% signed an affidavit under penalty of perjury swearing that they are eligible. Would welfare queens perjure themselves for free stuff?

Require a living wage. Why should we have subsidize Walmart and Amazon workers? The companies make billions on the backs of a poverty ridden workforce.

To the other 49%: get a job

And billionaire CEO’s can write off their private jets on their taxes. Who’s the bigger abuser of the system? The guy making $25k a year or the guy making hundreds of millions dodging taxes?

We can apparently afford to give Argentina $40 billion and spend $500 million on a new ball room and buy two new private jets for Kristi Noem, we should be able to afford to feed our population if that were important to our legislators and president.

Several months ago we buried my very elderly mother in law who never got much education because when she was a child the nearest school for "colored" children was many miles away not funded by the government and only open when the "cotton wasn't ready". She spent her adult life cooking and cleaning in some other woman's house, part of "the help". She was paid out of pocket, and had no concept, much less resources, for "retirement". When she died in her mid-90's she lived in a very little shotgun duplex she kept remarkably clean and she still cooked her own food every day. Yes, we made sure she got her SNAP benefits. Damn right.

2 wrongs don't make a right, and I don't give a shit about whataboutisms.

They mostly have jobs. Not all jobs get you above the poverty line even if you’re working for a company valued in the hundreds of billions.

It's an industry. Look at all of the eligibility workers, offices, govt. cars, support staff, etc. who feed off the same teet.

FAKE NEWS!!! "We" didn't spend a dime on the ballroom. Trump and other donors are paying for it, but thanks for checking in, Bennie. Those jets are replacements and owned/operated by the USAF.

The elephant in the room is the dimocrats have used these entitlement programs to buy votes for the past 60 years. The number of people who actually need it is a small. The vast majority on these programs are abusing the system and you idiots defending them are working so they don't have to. So who is the fool?

So that leaves 49% who should be working and buying their own food. That is damn near half of the money wasted on people who should not be getting our money.

Thank you @12:19. The many hypocrites commenting here could not care less about people like your grandmother but there are plenty of other people, including myself, who do care.

12:19 —

A poignant anecdote, and great for perspective. May she rest in peace.

There has been a work requirement for years. But CEOs who inherit tax free estates can sit on their assets all day. But their income is 1000 x what the guys in the warehouse make. And they are totally subsidized by taxpayers. This week our soldiers will go unpaid and the first thing Congress will do is bailout with tax money the Billionaire Bean Boys sending taxpayer subsidized beans to feed their enemy-the Chinese PLA. As they enjoy a month paid
Vacation. But Bubba is worried about food stamps when we are all getting a 2000 tax increase for tariffs. Oh the stupidity. You haters are the ultimate hypocrites.

That’s why a living wage is important.

Don't just throw the term around. Define what you believe to be a 'living wage'. Give us a number.

815 Billionaires that have more wealth than 50% of the U.S. Population

Link?

12:16 "we should be able to afford to feed our population" you mean our citizen population.. Like barnacles, some will take advantage of the system.

Eliminate like dead? Wow

All that anger mixed with nicotine and Budweiser will surely cause your weak heart to explode soon.

My family and I had to get on Medicaid in 2003 due to being laid off. It came with food stamps. This was in Florida. There you have to go through the whole process every 3 months to be approved for benefits. In Mississippi, it is once a year. The process in Ms is much easier. If Mississippi followed Florida's model, that alone would purge a bunch of grifters from the benefits. Just one of many things Mississippi could learn from Florida.

West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah have all now restricted the purchase of certain foods with SNAP benefits.

Mississippi's Legislature needs to get off its ass.

Ballroom is privately funded. Catch up.

Nobody is denying your mother-in-law and those in similar situations SNAP benefits. Damn right.

@12:14 - using the written tax code to your advantage isn't immoral. If you don't like the tax code, vote for someone that wants to change it instead of bitching about things you don't understand.

@1205 Shad White already did that.

Sounds like an upstanding lady who despite the hate lived her life as best she could.

Thats what some vocal people on here really want tbh. They want a poor black lady to stay poor and just work and die in her own small home in the county not near them or their churches.

The Magnolia State and hospitality - the dregs of humanity are found at the local baptist church imho.

12:16pm
As you finish another bowl of SNAP mac & cheese at lunch, read news about the WH Ballroom: not a penny of tax money is going to that project, all $350M is privately donated. As for Argentina, $20B is a currency swap to protect the Argentine peso and $20B is privately provided.

no issue there for me AT ALL. But the able, need to be working something to put some skin into the game. The Democrats reinvented slavery into The New Deal and the GOP are a greedy group of children saying "MINE! MINE! MINE!" And condolences to your family, your MIL sounds like she did the very best she could with the life she had, that's admirable on every level.

How many of those kids are also eating two free meals a day all year long at school? Children that get school breakfast and lunch at no cost to them are effectively double dipping.

State administration and policy choices could have a lot to do with SNAP enrollment. New Mexico had 21% of its population enrolled in SNAP last year. But Mississippi is around 12% today.

There is a range of benefits depending on family size but about $300 / month (give or take a little). 175,000 families on SNAP that means a pay out of more than 52 million / month. Some want the State to pick up the tab.

... we are all getting a 2000 tax increase for tariffs.

Link?

Call me crazy but I chose not to bring any children into this world until I could provide for them

I do have a heart hurt for those that need legit help due to unpreventable circumstances, fixed incomes, etc. HOWEVER if you cannot afford to clothe and feed the kids, DO NOT HAVE THEM!!! I have one child -- that is all I could afford!!! Did I want more? YES! But I was an adult in the situation and did not continue to pump out kids when I could not afford them. NO ONE owes you a living -- STOP BEING STUPID!!!!!

Those at the top keep those at the bottom focused on each other, baiting them with stories of someone else (also at the bottom) getting an unfair advantage. This is not new.

It's how a bunch of dirt-poor white people where convinced to fight and die to protect someone else's "property rights," i.e., slaves, about 165 years ago.

To 1:15 p.m., Do we really want private, anonymous money conducting foreign policy on behalf of the Unites States? I don't.

I agree, it’s hard to feel bad for people that do not put enough effort in their own lives only to discover they have to depend on government hand outs now. I started out in the early 80’s working, now I am set because I planned for my future. You have to start early to give the future you a fighting chance.

Trump isn’t paying a dime for that ballroom, I guarantee it. He supposedly got Apple and some other tech firms to donate, although the cost has more than doubled since it started so who knows who is paying for the extra few hundred million. Trump certainly isn’t saying. The point stands, why should we spend that $500 million on a ballroom instead of feeding our nation? Do we really need a new ballroom?

Just think, all Democrats have to do is say yes to the CR and none of this would be an issue.

One piece now missing from the Chess Board of life is teen employment. I started work at 14, as did my sons. By 19-20, I had mastered a trade to help pay for college. Trump needs to inspire the Legislature to lower the minimum wage for teens to work after school and summers. A "living wage" is a Marxist construct that eliminates teen employment and hurts small business.

Any of you libs who are so infuriated by Snap payments being cut put up a dime of your own money to help feed these people ?

All the "experts" on here really amuse me. FYI, there is already a work requirement for people receiving SNAP benefits and that work requirement goes up from 18-55 years olds to 18-64 year olds next year. Cases are reviewed/revalidated every six months (not once a year) for eligibility and there are about 350,000 people on SNAP in Mississippi (about 11%% of the state population) who receive on average all of $180/month. All of this has been reported publicly for anyone who can read or listen to the television (maybe not very few on this thread do that). Anyone who has been to the grocery store lately knows that $180 doesn't go very far for a month's worth of eating. The senior adults who "failed to plan for retirement" receive, on average, a whopping $23/month in SNAP benefits. Glad to see that Mississippi is still the Hospitality State, and we could show that by contributing to local food networks and food pantries.

True, but the truth hurts to the group thinkers who watch The View and CNN/BSDNC for their news.

A good number of the 173K not elderly, adolescent or permanently disabled but are receiving SNAP do work, but earn a poverty wage low enough

Good luck finding a teen who isn’t delusional and thinking they are going to become a viral influencer any moment!

Hey, 3:08, you don't have to be a liberal to be compassionate (although, it appears you are not very compassionate). And, yes, even though I am a conservative, I have put up enough with the local food network to cover 3,000 meals. When will you be sharing your bounty with the less fortunate?