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We took a small steer in to get processed and I picked up my meat this week.
I'm good for a nice long time now. Picked up 215 lbs of meat for $190 (no middleman).
That comes out to about $.88/lb. I'm giddy over this
We took a small steer in to get processed and I picked up my meat this week.
I'm good for a nice long time now. Picked up 215 lbs of meat for $190 (no middleman).
That comes out to about $.88/lb. I'm giddy over this
“I don’t need a whole lot to eat,” said Leon Simmons, 63, who spends more than half of his monthly $832 Social Security income to rent a room in an East Charleston house. “But this month I know I’m not going to buy any meats.”
Mr. Simmons’s allotment from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly called food stamps, has dropped $9. He has already spent the $33 he received for November.
The reduction in benefits has affected more than 47 million people like Mr. Simmons. It is the largest wholesale cut in the program since Congress passed the first Food Stamps Act in 1964 and touches about one in every seven Americans.
From the country kitchens of the South to the bodegas of New York, the pain is already being felt.
These were November 2013 cuts.
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Food stamps are likely to be cut more in the coming years if Congress can agree on a new farm bill, which House and Senate negotiators began tackling this week. The Republican-controlled House has approved cutting as much as $40 billion from the program over 10 years by making it harder to qualify. The Democratic-controlled Senate is suggesting a $4 billion cut by making administrative changes.
Well, TPTB certainly want you to be thankful for that so you don't consider how the elderly are being [bleep] over.
No return on savings, and things that cost more are moved into a different "basket of goods" to calculate the CPI. And seniors remain curiously quiet about it (when they're not being thankful to the master that their Part B isn't going up).
Wake up, sheeple. No one's getting [bleep] in this country like the seniors who worked for a living.
Well, TPTB certainly want you to be thankful for that so you don't consider how the elderly are being [bleep] over.
No return on savings, and things that cost more are moved into a different "basket of goods" to calculate the CPI. And seniors remain curiously quiet about it (when they're not being thankful to the master that their Part B isn't going up).
Wake up, sheeple. No one's getting [bleep] in this country like the seniors who worked for a living.
We don't need to wake up. Most of us are intelligent enough to understand economic theory, price/cost analysis, etc.
Of course, there are a few people who can't comprehend simple concepts and would rather btch, moan, and curse about being screwed over by TBTB.
Not that I'm referring to anyone in particular, you understand.
Well, TPTB certainly want you to be thankful for that so you don't consider how the elderly are being [bleep] over.
No return on savings, and things that cost more are moved into a different "basket of goods" to calculate the CPI. And seniors remain curiously quiet about it (when they're not being thankful to the master that their Part B isn't going up).
Wake up, sheeple. No one's getting [bleep] in this country like the seniors who worked for a living.
Sorry but I don't feel bleeped over and in fact feel blessed. Seniors are like many others varied and with different life experiences. Our return on investments are so very varied with some having done very well and others as you indicate stagnant. So perhaps there are reasons many are quiet.
Just heard speculating that it might fall somewhere between the last two years' increases, but they'll have a specific number in mid-October.
If true, this is bad news (again) for seniors dependent on SS and increases that keep up with inflation.
I believe it is 3%. The raise is consistent with the increase in CPI as it should be. No undeserving windfalls should be given the elderly beyond that.
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