No joke: 500k food stamp recipients to lose benefits on April 1

Good, to bad it's only 500k should be 40 million or more that get dropped.

More than 500,000 Americans receiving food stamp benefits will no longer qualify for them beginning on April 1. This is a result of government requirements linking the assistance to an individual’s ability to find a job and work.
In order to keep their access to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) for more than three months, able-bodied adults ages 18-49 who don’t have children or other dependents must work, volunteer, or enroll in a job-training program for 20 hours a week or more.

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Do you think we will see mass unrest tomorrow in the tradition of

If we just stop feeding the poor altogether, we can have riots of millions of starving people!

What a great idea, nothing like an angry, desperate mob.

overall up to 1,000,000 ABLE BODIED people will lose food stamps in 2016. Its going to be a long hot summer. No kid will go hungry............

well that didnt work now did it?
they found only two percent of welfare recipients were tested dirty.
thats why that stopped that nonsense here in florida.

as an aside, the governors wife was president of the testing company.

Playing Devil's advocate, the Government has done a very good job at making sure there aren't any jobs to be had..

Back to you.

"must work, volunteer, or enroll in a job-training program for 20 hours a week or more."

They'll still get food stamps.

The job situation isn't good.
Understood.

But they'll still get food stamps.

They just have to do something.

That's the idea. Let the lowlifes act the fool and then start them in on their jail/prison time earning us money.

Hungry people may steal to keep from going hungry, it would cost more to jail those people than what food stamps cost.

Throw them in jail and feed them bread and water like the old days.

Playing Devil's advocate, the Government has done a very good job at making sure there aren't any jobs to be had..

overall up to 1,000,000 ABLE BODIED people will lose food stamps in 2016. Its going to be a long hot summer. No kid will go hungry............

LOL, keeping people in jail makes money? your obviously very un-aware. This is Obama's martial law plan coming into effect bud.

People need to start creating their own jobs rather than waiting on big daddy corp to give you one.

Create a business, build it and hire people. That is what this country was built on. Small business owners employing a few people.

I'd take required drug test and randomized drug tests over just cutting people all together, bet more than 500,000 would lose benefits

Awesome! The fewer people on welfare the less welfare Walmart and other greedy corps get too.

This has been a law for years, wake up you idiots, you have no clue how the welfare system works.

"Damn whitey's did'nt put but 17 cnts on this damn EBT card, how the fuck am I supposed to feed my 7 fatherless children, and I'm pregnant too! muthafucka!