The USDA Is Pushing Food Stamps Like a Drug Dealer at a Grade School

[Twisted Titan]

One in 7 Americans receives food stamps and the government wants the number to be even higher.
Yes, I said higher.

The USDA is soliciting people to receive food stamps in the manner of a drug dealer on a grade school playground. ”Psst – hey you! I’ve got something for you…it’s free…come on, try it. You’ll like it!”

Even though we are drowning in debt and going under after a last gasp of air, the government of the United States is encouraging more people to go on the dole, even if doing so had never crossed their minds.

Last year the USDA targeted Spanish speaking citizens (and non-citizens) with a radio “novela” – which was basically a soap opera outlining how the lives of the characters improved as soon as they went on SNAP. SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) has taken the place of traditional food stamps and is simply a handy-dandy little card that is automatically reloaded and can be used like a debit card at checkout. The characters in the novela saw many of their problems solved by accepting the assistance – the lessening of marital strife, happier children, and an affordably healthy lifestyle for an obese character after heart attack scare. (You can listen to the English version of these novelas HERE (http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/12/usda-uses-spanish-soap-operas-to-push-food-stamp-participation-among-non-citizens-citizens/).)

In many locations, outreach programs are taking place – people don’t even have to go down to the benefits office to sign up. They can find out if they are eligible right in the grocery store parking lot. The USDA is spending an additional THREE MILLION DOLLARS (http://www.wmctv.com/story/18876644/government-encourages-food-stamps-sign-ups)not on providing food, but on providing outreach to convince people to accept the benefits. They are effectively hunting people down and talking them into accepting benefits that folks never realized they “needed”.




The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) even has a webpage dedicated to helping states create “SNAP Outreach Plans.” (http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/outreach/guidance/stateplan.htm)
The argument from the USDA is that “Food Stamps Make America Stronger” by stimulating states’ economies. States are responding to the call. According to The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-florida-a-food-stamp-recruiter-deals-with-wrenching-choices/2013/04/23/b3d6b41c-a3a4-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_story.html): “Rhode Island hosts SNAP-themed bingo games for the elderly. Alabama hands out fliers that read: ‘Be a patriot. Bring your food stamp money home.’ Three states in the Midwest throw food-stamp parties where new recipients sign up en masse.” And Florida even employs recruiters.

The recruiter profiled in the Post’s story, Dillie Nerios, is required to get “at least 150 seniors” to enroll in “food stamps each month, a quota she usually exceeds.”

“Help is available. You deserve it. So, yes or no?” she tells prospective food stamp recipients. “State-issued training manuals” even provides


responses she can use when individuals protest. (source (http://blog.heritage.org/2013/04/30/uncle-sam-wants-you-on-food-stamps/))





The outrageousness of such actions is mind-boggling. Hard-working Americans are being sequestered into poverty, watching their pensions and life-savings disappear, and losing their homes and jobs at the rate of thousands per day. Meanwhile, the government is going out and purposely increasing spending? Going out and convincing people to accept handouts?
What?????

http://averagejoenewsblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/we-accept-ebt.jpg
The reason is simple.

The government wants to be in control. They want to control what you eat, where you acquire the food, and how you pay for it. And eventually, they want the ability to use that access to food as a tool for manipulation. It’ll be great while it lasts – your family might end up with an extra $200 in groceries – “Hey, honey – want lobster for dinner tonight? Uncle Sam’s buying!”

But when it ends, you will be left poorer than you were before with no means of feeding your family except capitulation to the machine.
It is a gift of luscious fruit from a poisoned tree.

You may not think this comes at a price, but it does. And that price is your freedom (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/how-many-buckets-of-freedom-do-you-have-02252013). Your children’s freedom. And eventually, maybe even your lives, as you starve to death, waiting for that next handout.

Please, take responsibility for yourselves and your family. Don’t sell your independence for a bag of “free” groceries.


Build a stockpile (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-pantry-primer-how-to-build-a-one-year-food-supply-in-three-months-08042013).
Shop carefully. (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/what-to-eat-when-youre-broke-08112013)
Grow a garden (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/garden-rebels-10-ways-to-sow-revolution-in-your-back-yard-05072013).
Preserve food. (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/category/preserving)
Cook from scratch. (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-lost-art-of-scratch-cooking-02282013)
Learn self-sufficiency skills. (http://readynutrition.com/resources/category/homestead/)
Live frugally. (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/cheap-by-choice-when-frugality-means-freedom-04112013)
Eat nutritiously to stay well (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/nutrition-101-how-processed-foods-make-us-fat-malnourished-and-sick-06222013).
Prepare for the economy to get a whole lot worse (http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/what-will-the-end-be-like-for-me-if-i-dont-prepare_08132013).


Watch this video from Fox News (I can’t believe I just said that – but it’s really eye-opening!). It’s worth the 40 minutes to see how the the enemies of freedom intend to take over.


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[Twisted Titan]

http://youtu.be/o64Fz-KW1Dk

[General of Darkness]

I wonder what percentage those 1 in 7 are illegals.

[Shami-Amourae]

Full 40 minute special on Food Stamps by Fox News:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTH8V6H_Pwo

[Son-of-Liberty]

This is used as a tool of control, the hand that gives is always above the hand that receives.

It is also a corporate subsidy to the multinational food companies that provide poisonous food.

EBT can't be used at the farmers market or to buy direct from the local farmer.

[Shami-Amourae]

This is used as a tool of control, the hand that gives is always above the hand that receives.

It is also a corporate subsidy to the multinational food companies that provide poisonous food.

EBT can't be used at the farmers market or to buy direct from the local farmer.

My local Farmer's Market has stalls that accepts EBTs.

[Son-of-Liberty]

That is great I honestly haven't heard of farmers markets accepting them before.

Still a corporate subsidy though.

[Twisted Titan]

"Food is power! We use it to change behavior. Some may call that bribery. We do not apologize."

Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program.

Ms. Bertini, was our very own former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Ms. Bertini was a featured speaker at the globalist UN World Food Summit in November of 1996.

[Celtic Rogue]

At farmers markets if the vendor takes credit/debit cards then they can take ebt cards as well!

[VX1]

Full 40 minute special on Food Stamps by Fox News:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTH8V6H_Pwo

At 5:40 in the video:


We would never, ever try to convince someone who didn't want these benefits to get them.


My wife's uncle, and his wife are of Columbian descent in Miami. He's a very well to-do doctor. When his wife was expecting a baby, at every hospital visit, they'd try to sign her up for food stamps; really aggressively forcing them upon her. She always told them "no", they've got plenty of money, but the EBT pushers said it doesn't matter, take them anyway.

[Serpo]

The globalists dont want no super power to interfere with their twisted plans but I think their quest for world domination is blowing up in their faces ,right now.

This will be where they are the most dangerous however.

Lets face it America has been pulled down by its very own leaders.

The globalists want to make money and rule the world so everything went to China.

They have done nothing since 2008 to turn anything around in U.S ..........hanging is too good for them.............it is treason

Sack the army sack the police and let machines take over so a handful of luciferians can sit back and jack off too innocent people being ritualistically sacrificed.

May your blood boil with what is going on in the world , pity most people are not even aware,although Obamas approval rating is now 35% and falling.

[Santa]

Every facet of our lives are being socially engineered to
Capitulation to the machine.

[Hitch]

I use the 1 in 7 on food stamps statistic to wake folks up. I tell them next time they are walking around the city and count every 7th person and think about how massive that number is.

I then tell them that food is freedom. By not being dependent on the gov to feed you, you will not need to rely on them and that is the only way to be free.

[madfranks]

My wife's uncle, and his wife are of Columbian descent in Miami. He's a very well to-do doctor. When his wife was expecting a baby, at every hospital visit, they'd try to sign her up for food stamps; really aggressively forcing them upon her. She always told them "no", they've got plenty of money, but the EBT pushers said it doesn't matter, take them anyway.

It's because to the vast majority of people, they are FREE. They don't understand that someone, somewhere is actually paying for it, it's FREE, so even if you have money, even if you can pay for your own groceries, why not take it? After all, it's free.

[messianicdruid]

Schiff talking about a subsidized surfer dude.

http://sgtreport.com/2013/08/first-you-get-the-ebt-card-and-then-you-get-the-women/

[Libertytree]

I just went to the Florida SNAP/Access website and it's anything but easy to get. They want a boatload of info, much that has nothing to do with you personally but the whole household where you're living. Maybe it's easier if ya hang out in the Wallyworld parking lot?

[gunDriller]

Schiff talking about a subsidized surfer dude.

http://sgtreport.com/2013/08/first-you-get-the-ebt-card-and-then-you-get-the-women/

if surfers were a stock, Schiff would be short surfers.

maybe he's just bashing them so he can buy the shares cheap ?


in the real world, giving away coupons for semi-real food may be the cheapest anti-riot insurance TPTB can buy.

it shows how much of the economy is "frivolous shit" - i.e. stuff you don't really need.


it's sort of interesting that a small fraction of the economy goes towards "real stuff" (e.g. food, whether it's government subsidized or bought), and how such a small portion of our currency goes to Real Money (AKA precious metals).

[midnight rambler]

It is also a corporate subsidy to the multinational food companies that provide poisonous food.


My thoughts exactly. Not only that, that toxin-laden processed 'food' increases one's need for 'health care' (which is the move toward TOTAL CONTROL BY THE STATE of one's body, health, and well-being).

[Hitch]

Schiff talking about a subsidized surfer dude.

http://sgtreport.com/2013/08/first-you-get-the-ebt-card-and-then-you-get-the-women/

Normally I like Schiff's opinion, and I understand that he's using the surfer guy as an example of what's wrong with food stamps.

However, $200 is not enough to feed a guy who's eating as healthy as the surfer guy appears to be. Add in the drinking, I bet surfer has another way of getting funds. Maybe the women he meets help support him.

The surfer guy just found a way to opt out of the system and live a happy life. Aside from the food stamps, that is. He's not chasing wealth to support the system, he's not a slave how they want us to be. He'd probably be fine without the food stamps, the $200 he probably just figures why not, the slave debt system is already in place, might as well use it while it lasts.

Not everyone buys into the whole chasing wealth to create the illusion of happiness mentality. It's obvious the surfer guy is laughing about getting the food stamps, he thinks it's a joke too.

[Libertytree]

We all know it's a scam in favor of the big boys and the shitty end of the stick gets stuck in the little guy/peasants. If I had an ebt card I'd stock up on sugar, flour, beans, grains etc..

[Libertytree]

Normally I like Schiff's opinion, and I understand that he's using the surfer guy as an example of what's wrong with food stamps.

However, $200 is not enough to feed a guy who's eating as healthy as the surfer guy appears to be. Add in the drinking, I bet surfer has another way of getting funds. Maybe the women he meets help support him.

The surfer guy just found a way to opt out of the system and live a happy life. Aside from the food stamps, that is. He's not chasing wealth to support the system, he's not a slave how they want us to be. He'd probably be fine without the food stamps, the $200 he probably just figures why not, the slave debt system is already in place, might as well use it while it lasts.

Not everyone buys into the whole chasing wealth to create the illusion of happiness mentality. It's obvious the surfer guy is laughing about getting the food stamps, he thinks it's a joke too.

Thats the way I'm starting to think about it and truthfully I'm not much different than the surfer dude, sans the card. Opting out of the system is not without its PITA I'll admit but it's worth it in a lot of other aspects and almost every day I'm glad I'm not out there in that fucking mess chasin my tail for nothin. Just the thought of having to do it causes me anxiety but that's a whole lot more anxiety than what little I have now.

[Hitch]

Thats the way I'm starting to think about it and truthfully I'm not much different than the surfer dude, sans the card. Opting out of the system is not without its PITA I'll admit but it's worth it in a lot of other aspects and almost every day I'm glad I'm not out there in that fucking mess chasin my tail for nothin. Just the thought of having to do it causes me anxiety but that's a whole lot more anxiety than what little I have now.

It's really about living the life we all want to live.

That's what I suppose I disagree with Schiff. Schiff thinks surfer guy is a creation spawned through reckless gov spending. I think surfer guy chooses to live this way regardless because it is what makes him happy.

Men in their 20's have the highest unemployment rate out there. It doesn't sound like surfer guy is out there stealing or harming anybody else, he's just found a way that works for him.

[gunDriller]

It's really about living the life we all want to live.

That's what I suppose I disagree with Schiff. Schiff thinks surfer guy is a creation spawned through reckless gov spending. I think surfer guy chooses to live this way regardless because it is what makes him happy.

also for the reason made famous by Clinton - he does it because he can.


i would say that people collecting food stamps is a very small amount of the total "entitlement mentality."

there's a whole lot more entitlement mentality in other sectors of the economy, e.g. "homeland security".

they survive with the delusion that we need them to keep us safe.

now that's a delusion. a much larger chunk of the total economy.

[kiffertom]

This is used as a tool of control, the hand that gives is always above the hand that receives.

It is also a corporate subsidy to the multinational food companies that provide poisonous food.

EBT can't be used at the farmers market or to buy direct from the local farmer.its also a vote for me im feeding you tool!

[singular_me]

they are not really pushing food stamps but the national debt, the bigger the implo$ion the more people will die...

[Serpo]

My thoughts exactly. Not only that, that toxin-laden processed 'food' increases one's need for 'health care' (which is the move toward TOTAL CONTROL BY THE STATE of one's body, health, and well-being).


Dosnt JPM or Goldman sucking make a commission on food stamps also

[Serpo]

they are not really pushing food stamps but the national debt, the bigger the implo$ion the more people will die...

Well they have done a top job on that one

[Serpo]

so fine farmers which goes towards paying for food stamps......hahahahaha




Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers:


15/08/13

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(WakingTimes (http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/08/12/should-you-be-able-to-buy-food-directly-from-farmers-regulators-do-not-think-so/)) This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly.

For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales.

http://truthseekerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/food.jpg (http://truthseekerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/food.jpg)

In response, federal and state regulators are seeking legal sanctions against farmers in Maine, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, among others. These sanctions include injunctions, fines, and even prison sentences.

Food sold by unlicensed and uninspected farmers is potentially dangerous say the regulators, since it can carry pathogens like salmonella, campylobacter, and E.coli O157:H7, leading to mild or even serious illness.
(unlike chicken mc nuggets which only have strange blue fibers in them) http://www.naturalnews.com/041655_Chicken_McNuggets_strange_fibers_microscope _images.html


http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Chicken-McNuggets-Mysterious-Fibers-300.jpg

or how about this one......


Coca-Cola To Defend Aspartame In New Commercial (http://www.naturalblaze.com/2013/08/coca-cola-to-defend-aspartame-in-new.html)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lkaZk3Jem7Q/Ug5Vuq2nxSI/AAAAAAAASSk/EcmYeJ9Wi4g/s320/cocaine-cola-300x203.jpg (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lkaZk3Jem7Q/Ug5Vuq2nxSI/AAAAAAAASSk/EcmYeJ9Wi4g/s1600/cocaine-cola-300x203.jpg)
Most recently, Wisconsin’s attorney general appointed a special prosecutor to file criminal misdemeanor charges against an Amish farmer for alleged failure to have retail and dairy licenses, and the proceedings turned into a high-profile jury trial in late May that highlighted the depth of conflict: following five days of intense proceedings, the 12-person jury acquitted the farmer, Vernon Hershberger, on all the licensing charges, while convicting him of violating a 2010 holding order on his food, which he had publicly admitted.

Why are hard-working normally law-abiding farmers aligning with urban and suburban consumers to flaunt well-established food safety regulations and statutes? Why are parents, who want only the best for their children, seeking out food that regulators say could be dangerous? And, why are regulators and prosecutors feeling so threatened by this trend?

Members of these private food groups often buy from local farmers because they want food from animals that are treated humanely, allowed to roam on pasture, and not treated with antibiotics. “I really want food that is full of nutrients and the animals to be happy and content,” says Jenny DeLoney, a Madison, WI, mother of three young children who buys from Hershberger.

To these individuals, many of whom are parents, safety means not only food free of pathogens, but food free of pesticides, antibiotic residues, and excessive processing. It means food created the old-fashioned way—from animals allowed to eat grass instead of feed made from genetically modified (GMO) grains—and sold the old-fashioned way, privately by the farmer to the consumer, who is free to visit the farm and see the animals.

Many of these consumers have viewed the secretly-made videos of downer cows being prodded into slaughterhouses and chickens so crammed into coops they can barely breathe.

These consumers are clearly interpreting “safety” differently than the regulators. Some of these consumers are going further than claiming contract rights—they are pushing their towns and cities to legitimize private farmer-consumer arrangements.

In Maine, residents of ten coastal towns have approved so-called “food sovereignty” ordinances that legalize unregulated food sales; towns in other states, including Massachusetts and Vermont, and as far away as Santa Cruz, CA, have passed similar ordinances.

The new legal offensive isn’t going over well with regulators anywhere. Aside from the Hershberger action in Wisconsin, and a similar one in Minnesota, Maine’s Department of Agriculture filed suit against a two-cow farmer, Dan Brown, in one of the food-sovereignty towns, Blue Hill, seeking fines and, in effect, to invalidate all the Maine ordinances.

In April, a state court ruled against the farmer, and in effect against the towns; sentencing is due within several weeks, and the case could well be appealed.

The jury in the criminal misdemeanor case of Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen last September acquitted him of all charges after several hours of deliberation. But the regulators’ push against privately-distributed food continues unabated.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has moved forward with a local prosecutor in Schlangen’s rural county, pressing similar criminal charges as the ones he was acquitted of in Minneapolis. He is scheduled to go on trial again in August. And in Wisconsin, prosecutors sought, unsuccessfully, to have Vernon Hershberger jailed for allegedly violating his jail terms since charges were filed in late 2011.

At its heart, this is a struggle over a steady erosion of confidence in the integrity of our industrial food system, which has been hit by disturbing disclosures seemingly on a weekly basis. In just the last few weeks, for example, we have seen shrimp, cookies, and veggie burgers recalled by the FDA for being sold with undeclared ingredients.

Also in recent weeks, members of Congress and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have escalated warnings about the growing danger of antibiotic resistant pathogens emerging from farm animals, which consume about 80 percent of all antibiotics in the U.S. The Atlantic reported last summer that medical specialists are seeing a spike in women with urinary tract infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, likely transmitted by chicken meat.

This erosion in the confidence of the food system carries serious implications. It financially threatens large corporations if long-established food brands come under prolonged and severe public questioning.

It threatens economic performance if foods deemed “safe” become scarcer, and thus more expensive. And it is potentially explosive politically if too many people lose confidence in the professionalism of the food regulators who are supposed to be protecting us from tainted food, and encourages folks to exit the public food system for private solutions like the consumers in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, and elsewhere.

Just look at the vituperative corporate response to recent consumer-led campaigns to label foods with genetically-modified ingredients.

As more consumers become intent on making the final decisions on what foods they are going to feed themselves and their families, and regulators become just as intent on asserting what they see as their authority over inspecting and licensing all food, ugly scenarios of agitated citizens battling government authorities over access to food staples seem likely to proliferate.

It’s an unfortunate recipe for a new kind of rights movement centered on the most basic acts—what we choose to eat.

http://truthseekerdaily.com/farmers-to-face-fines-or-prison-sentences-for-selling-food-directly-to-customers/