During our previous discussion on historic, predictable and purposeful food inflation, on August 13th CTH noted “BigAg has likely already made deals for increases in government welfare payments (EBT and Foodstamps, WIC etc.). BigAg lobbies congress for higher reimbursement rates so they can raise the prices of food and export domestic product to other nations. Food assistance payments increase, and BigAg benefits. In essence, BigAg takes the fed food subsidies and fattens their profit margin. Then, they payback the politicians. It’s a circle of money.“….
If you know how the game is rigged, it’s actually easy to predict the background. Today, exactly on cue, several media outlets are now reporting that Joe Biden is going to increase the amount of food stamp assistance by 25% per recipient, and expand the program.
New York Times – WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has revised the nutrition standards of the food stamp program and prompted the largest permanent increase to benefits in the program’s history, a move that will give poor people more power to fill their grocery carts but add billions of dollars to the cost of a program that feeds one in eight Americans.
Under rules to be announced on Monday and put in place in October, average benefits will rise more than 25 percent from prepandemic levels. All 42 million people in the program will receive additional aid. The move does not require congressional approval, and unlike the large pandemic-era expansions, which are starting to expire, the changes are intended to last. (read more)
This announcement is actually revealing in more ways than just the predictability of it.
♦ First, the 25% permanent increase is an admission by the Biden administration that food price inflation is here to stay. The massive scale of the increase also highlights the actual reality of how much food prices are rising. This massive and permanent increase directly undercuts the previous White House and Biden claims that inflation was “temporary”, “transitional” and likely to end soon.
However, to that point… remember, in order for leftist ideologues (Alinskly types) to continue advancing their ideological belief systems they have to pretend not to know things. They pretend not to know inflation is higher than it is, because they must continue making claims that are counter to the reality around us.
♦ Second, no massive increase for those on fixed-income social security. This does not go unnoticed and should anger everyone who is seeing their standard of living crushed by these insane Biden fiscal, monetary and economic policies.
♦ Third, now you can see the fingerprints of the background quid-pro-quo that led to the GOPe DeceptiCons agreeing to the massive “infrastructure spending bill.” I can guarantee you McConnell, Thune, Barasso, Ernst, Grassley and crew already knew this massive hike in foodstamp and SNAP assistance was coming. This was the deal that bought their votes. This is what the DeceptiCons got out of it.
Part of the lobbying in the food industry by BigAg multinationals is to advocate for the expansion of U.S. taxpayer benefits to underwrite the costs of the domestic food products they control. By lobbying DC, these multinational corporations get congress and policy-makers to expand the basis of who can use Food Stamps, EBT and SNAP benefits (state reimbursement rates). Expanding the federal subsidy for food purchases is part of the corporate profit dynamic.
With increased taxpayer subsidies, the food price controllers (BigAg Multinationals) can charge more domestically and export more of the product internationally. Taxes, via subsidies, go into their profit margins. The corporations then use a portion of those enhanced profits in contributions to the politicians. It’s a circle of money.
(Politico) – The Biden administration on Monday plans to unveil a major permanent increase to the food stamp benefits that help 42 million Americans buy groceries — a record bump up for one of the country’s largest safety net programs.
The average monthly benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be roughly 27 percent higher than they were before the pandemic, starting Oct. 1, according to an administration official. That comes out to an increase of about 40 cents per meal. (read more)
NOTE: Wheat, corn and soybeans are the foundation of the U.S. food supply. They are primarily used as ingredients in processed foods, oils, and are fed to the cattle, hogs, and poultry that supply meat and eggs for the American diet. When those grain harvests go up in price, the downstream increase in price is far reaching.
Remember, there is no such thing as a “commodity” market in the free market sense of the word. Those commodity markets are now “controlled markets“, and fully under the control of massive multinational agricultural corporations.
MAY 2021 – […] “Americans should definitely expect an eventual rise in prices later in the year,” says Moya. “The surge with grain prices should not immediately be visible at supermarkets, since retailers absorb the initial increase. (But) eventually, the margin pressure will be too big and probably at some point late in the summer, Americans will start to take notice to some increases on grocery shelves.” (more)
Many Americans are recently awake to the singular ideology that surrounds DC politics. The UniParty political fraud also applies to our political economy. However, just like the election, understanding the deception in modern economics means understanding previous false and promoted assumptions.
♦The biggest lie in modern economics, willingly spread and maintained by corporate media, is that a system of global markets still exists.
It doesn’t.
Every element of global economic trade is controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations. Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Bank control trillions of dollars in economic activity.
Underneath that economic activity there are people who hold the reigns of power over the outcomes. These individuals and groups are the stakeholders in direct opposition to principles of America-First national economics. Collectively known as “The Big Club”.
The modern financial constructs of these entities have been established over the course of the past three decades. When you understand how they manipulate the economic system of individual nations, you begin to understand why they were so fundamentally opposed to President Trump.
In the Western World, separate from communist control perspectives (ie. China), “Global markets” are a modern myth; nothing more than a talking point meant to keep people satiated with sound bites they might find familiar. Global markets have been destroyed over the past three decades by multinational corporations who control the products formerly contained within global markets.
The same is true for “Commodities Markets”. The multinational trade and economic system, run by corporations and multinational banks, now controls the product outputs of independent nations. The free market economic system has been usurped by entities who create what is best described as ‘controlled markets’.
U.S. President Trump understood what had taken place. He used economic leverage as part of a broader national security policy; and to understand who opposed President Trump specifically because of the economic leverage he created, it becomes important to understand the objectives of the global and financial elite who run and operate the institutions. The Big Club.
Understanding how trillions of trade dollars influence geopolitical policy, we begin to understand the three-decade global financial construct they seek to retain and protect.
That is, global financial exploitation of national markets.
FOUR BASIC ELEMENTS:
♦Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national outputs (harvests and raw materials), and ancillary industries, of developed industrial western nations. {example}
♦The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks. (*note* in China it is the communist government underwriting the purchase)
♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
♦With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
Revisiting the economic influences within the modern import/export dynamic will help conceptualize the issues at the heart of the matter. There are a myriad of interests within each trade sector that make specific explanation very challenging; however, here’s the basic outline.
For three decades economic “globalism” has advanced, quickly. Everyone accepts this statement, yet few actually stop to ask who and what are behind this – and why?
Influential people with vested financial interests in the process have sold a narrative that global manufacturing, global sourcing, and global production was the inherent way of the future. The same voices claimed the American economy was consigned to become a “service-driven economy.”
What was always missed in these discussions is that advocates selling this global-economy message have a vested financial and ideological interest in convincing the information consumer it is all just a natural outcome of economic progress.
It’s not.
It’s not natural at all. It is a process that is entirely controlled, promoted and utilized by large conglomerates, lobbyists, purchased politicians and massive financial corporations.
Again, I’ll try to retain the larger altitude perspective without falling into the traps of the esoteric weeds. I freely admit this is tough to explain and I may not be successful.
Bulletpoint #1: ♦ Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national elements of developed industrial western nations.
This is perhaps the most challenging to understand. In essence, thanks specifically to the way the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established in 1995, national companies expanded their influence into multiple nations, across a myriad of industries and economic sectors (energy, agriculture, raw earth minerals, etc.). This is the basic underpinning of national companies becoming multinational corporations.
Think of these multinational corporations as global entities now powerful enough to reach into multiple nations -simultaneously- and purchase controlling interests in a single economic commodity.
A historic reference point might be the original multinational enterprise, energy via oil production. (Exxon, Mobil, BP, etc.)
However, in the modern global world, it’s not just oil; the resource and product procurement extends to virtually every possible commodity and industry. From the very visible (wheat/corn) to the obscure (small minerals, and even flowers).
Bulletpoint #2 ♦ The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks.
During the past several decades, national companies merged. The largest lemon producer company in Brazil, merges with the largest lemon company in Mexico, merges with the largest lemon company in Argentina, merges with the largest lemon company in the U.S., etc. etc. National companies, formerly of one nation, become “continental” companies with control over an entire continent of nations.
…. or it could be over several continents or even the entire world market of Lemon/Widget production. These are now multinational corporations. They hold interests in specific segments (this example lemons) across a broad variety of individual nations.
National laws on Monopoly building are not the same in all nations. Most are not as structured as the U.S.A or other more developed nations (with more laws). During the acquisition phase, when encountering a highly developed nation with monopoly laws, the process of an umbrella corporation might be needed to purchase the targeted interests within a specific nation. The example of Monsanto applies here.
Bulletpoint #3 ♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
With control of the majority of actual lemons, the multinational corporation now holds a different set of financial values than a local farmer or national market. This is why commodities exchanges are essentially dead.
In the aggregate, the mercantile exchange is no longer a free or supply-based market; it is now a controlled market exploited by mega-sized multinational corporations.
Instead of the traditional ‘supply/demand’ equation determining prices, the corporations look to see what nations can afford what prices. The supply of the controlled product is then distributed to the country according to their ability to afford the price. This is essentially the bastardized and politicized function of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This is also how the corporations controlling WTO policy maximize profits.
Back to the lemons. A multinational corporation might hold the rights to the majority of the lemon production in Brazil, Argentina and California/Florida. The price the U.S. consumer pays for the lemons is directed by the amount of inventory (distribution) the controlling corporation allows in the U.S.
If the U.S. lemon harvest is abundant, the controlling interests will export the product to keep the U.S. consumer spending at peak or optimal price. A U.S. customer might pay $2 for a lemon, a Mexican customer might pay .50¢, and a Canadian $1.25.
The bottom line issue is the national supply (in this example ‘harvest/yield’) is not driving the national price because the supply is now controlled by massive multinational corporations.
The mistake people often make is calling this a “global commodity” process. In the modern era this “global commodity” phrase is particularly nonsense.
A true global commodity is a process of individual nations harvesting/creating a similar product and bringing that product to a global market. Individual nations each independently engaged in creating a similar product.
Under modern globalism this process no longer takes place. It’s a complete fraud. Massive multinational corporations control the majority of production inside each nation and therefore control the global product market and price. It is a controlled system.
EXAMPLE: Part of the lobbying in the food industry is to advocate for the expansion of U.S. taxpayer benefits to underwrite the costs of the domestic food products they control. By lobbying DC, these multinational corporations get congress and policy-makers to expand the basis of who can use Food Stamps, EBT and SNAP benefits (state reimbursement rates).
Expanding the federal subsidy for food purchases is part of the corporate profit dynamic.
With increased taxpayer subsidies, the food price controllers can charge more domestically and export more of the product internationally. Taxes, via subsidies, go into their profit margins. The corporations then use a portion of those enhanced profits in contributions to the politicians. It’s a circle of money.
In highly developed nations this multinational corporate process requires the corporation to purchase the domestic political process (as above) with individual nations allowing the exploitation in varying degrees. As such, the corporate lobbyists pay hundreds of millions to politicians for changes in policies and regulations; one sector, one product, or one industry at a time. These are specialized lobbyists.
It is ironic when we discuss corporate financial payments to government officials in foreign countries we call them corrupt. However, in the United States we call it lobbying, the process is exactly the same.
EXAMPLE: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
CFIUS is an inter-agency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person (“covered transactions”), in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.
CFIUS operates pursuant to section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) (section 721), and as implemented by Executive Order 11858, as amended, and regulations at 31 C.F.R. Part 800.
The CFIUS process has been the subject of significant reforms over the past several years. These include numerous improvements in internal CFIUS procedures, enactment of FINSA in July 2007, amendment of Executive Order 11858 in January 2008, revision of the CFIUS regulations in November 2008, and publication of guidance on CFIUS’s national security considerations in December 2008 (more)
Bulletpoint #4 ♦ With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
The process of charging the U.S. consumer more for a product, that under normal national market conditions would cost less, is a process called exfiltration of wealth. This is the basic premise, the cornerstone, behind the catch-phrase ‘globalism’.
It is never discussed.
To control the market price some contracted product may even be secured and shipped with the intent to allow it to sit idle (or rot). It’s all about controlling the price and maximizing the profit equation. To gain the same $1 profit a widget multinational might have to sell 20 widgets in El-Salvador (.25¢ each), or two widgets in the U.S. ($2.50/each).
Think of the process like the historic reference of OPEC (Oil Producing Economic Countries). Only in the modern era massive corporations are playing the role of OPEC and it’s not oil being controlled, thanks to the WTO it’s almost everything.
Again, this is highlighted in the example of taxpayers subsidizing the food sector (EBT, SNAP etc.), the corporations can charge U.S. consumers more. Ex. more beef is exported, red meat prices remain high at the grocery store, but subsidized U.S. consumers can better afford the high prices.
Of course, if you are not receiving food payment assistance (middle-class) you can’t eat the steaks because you can’t afford them. (Not accidentally, it’s the same scheme in the ObamaCare healthcare system)
Agriculturally, multinational corporate Monsanto says: ‘all your harvests are belong to us‘. Contract with us, or you lose because we can control the market price of your end product. Downside is that once you sign that contract, you agree to terms that are entirely created by the financial interests of the larger corporation; not your farm.
The multinational agriculture lobby is massive. We willingly feed the world as part of the system; but you as a grocery customer pay more per unit at the grocery store because domestic supply no longer determines domestic price.
Within the agriculture community the (feed-the-world) production export factor also drives the need for labor. Labor is a cost. The multinational corps have a vested interest in low labor costs. Ergo, open border policies. (ie. willingly purchased republicans not supporting border wall etc.).
This corrupt economic manipulation/exploitation applies over multiple sectors, and even in the sub-sector of an industry like steel. China/India purchases the raw material, coking coal, then sells the finished good (rolled steel) back to the global market at a discount. Or it could be rubber, or concrete, or plastic, or frozen chicken parts etc.
The ‘America First’ Trump-Trade Doctrine upset the entire construct of this multinational export/control dynamic. Team Trump focused exclusively on bilateral trade deals, with specific trade agreements targeted toward individual nations (not national corporations).
‘America-First’ was also specific policy at a granular product level looking out for the national interests of the United States, U.S. workers, U.S. companies and U.S. consumers.
Under President Trump’s Trade positions, balanced and fair trade with strong regulatory control over national assets, exfiltration of U.S. national wealth was essentially stopped. This is why Trump had to be eliminated, by any means necessary. There were trillions at stake.
The America-First economic structure put most multinational corporations, globalists who previously took a stake-hold in the U.S. economy with intention to export the wealth, in a position of holding contracted interest of an asset they could no longer exploit.
Perhaps now people will better understand how massive multi-billion multinational corporations, and the political institutions they pay for, were/are aligned against President Trump; and they will never relent in their need to see the risk he/we represents destroyed.
**************** all decepticons and the uniparty hacks to hell.
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But we were just told the price of a 4th of July picnic went down… Must have had Afghan forces holding food prices in place.
Just in, helicopter rooftop evacuation of the Biden economic team as consumer prices continue to advance at breakneck speed.
spend your $0.16 yet?
How about the boss damn it or Biden damn it or uniparty damn it and just leave our creator out of it for now. He can do so if he so pleases
Which is true about every one of us n’est ce pas?
Unless you’re going to defy Scripture and Orthodoxy
and claim there are some sinless souls that don’t deserve Hell.
God will do as He is, but I sure wish for some 1 Kings 18:40 resolutions.
Gladly, but appears to me what we’re lacking are folks to SEND them there.
Wait until the effects of the Brazilian coffee and sugar losses really hit the market.
I’m already seeing a 40%+ jump in certain retail coffee prices.
As for sugar, the last time there was a major sugar shortage circa 1974 (due to a cornered market along with loss of supply), the ripple effects were unbelievable. But that was nearly half a century ago. Today, many more products use sugar and I expect it will be worse.
There may be a boom in high fructose corn syrup instead of big ripple effects from a sugar shortage.
Most likely. High fructose corn syrup is some nasty stuff. Just like hydrogenated oils.
I believe that is the nexus of a majority of the obesity in America…nearly ALL processed food has corn syrup as an ingredient
There is a shortage of corn from droughts in the US and Brazil as well as other places. Double whammy.
I remember the suger shortage and the price spikes that went along with it. Housewives at the time simply refused to buy suger and the suppy chain backed up when the suger was sitting in warehouses across the country. Eventually the price came back down. President Gerald Ford did his “part” by removing the suger bowl for his dining table.
LOTS more use corn syrup as a sweetener and flavoring agent
This essay should be required reading in every economics class and business school. Brilliant.
While I would agree on all points, I do not think this will get through to those adherents of Keynesian economics and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
No, you are correct. This will not get through to the Keynesians because our vicious cycle is their virtuous cycle.
Under Donald The Great, we had virtuous cycles in nearly every policy area, i.e. virtue begets virtue; vice begets vice.
Now that we can taste the full bitterness that the theft of our constitutional electoral process has produced , greater should be our resolve to see these election audits through to their necessary and thorough completion.
If the three federal branches are completely corrupt (which they are), a glimmer of hope still shines at the state and local levels. The fate of election 2020 will rest entirely in their hands.
This is how Liberty dies, by procrastinating it’s Watering.
Even JM Keynes did not advocate deficit spending in the eras of high debt…he only called for it as a prop for depressions when you had the resources available, not the constant deficit spending we see from the modern politician
Actually this essay should be required reading in all US high schools for 11 and 12 grade English, Math, and History classes.
Here goes prices again
You mean that usurper Biden lied about the cost of food?
I guess that means the “Biden economic plan” is FUBAR.
I can imagine them all thinking something like this.
“The looting must go on! All your (property/rights/prosperity) belong to us, your superiors. Now take these crumbs, be good serfs and obey.”
At least we dont have to worry about any mean tweets from Biden.
thats hiarious! thanks – i really needed a laugh after catching up on 3 last days of CTH posts of JoeBama’s total destruction of USA
Means 25% higher food prices for the rest of us who have to pay our own way.
42 MILLION is a lot of people we have to feed.
The american people need to rise up and tell these Losers to get the F*ck off our backs….. if you are old/elderly, disabled, etc. I understand the need if you can’t provide for food…. but I see a bunch of worthless idiots abusing these programs everyday. I don’t mind feeding them either, (it shouldn’t be an ala carte, steaks, lobsters, etc.. should be basic staples, sandwiches, rice, beans, etc.) They should not be eating better than the working class people, or people who pay for their own food. I’m sick of having to scrimp, while these idiots eat like kings on our dime.
There is a supermarket near one of our sanctuary cities that everyone calls the Ghetto Grocery.
I often go there for the inexpensive produce which is actually quite good.
As I stand in line I notice many young families speaking Spanish or some other language that are paying for their pile of groceries with a benefit card.
Often the young woman is pregnant with one child in a carriage and another walking along side. Usually they are accompanied by an able bodied male.
I never see any English speaking families like this.
And a record 10 million jobs unfilled, with employers offering sky high pay to attract workers.
Re “42 MILLION is a lot of people we have to feed.”
Yes, and this new increase in bennies will incentivize even more people to apply for food stamps… 50 million total within a few months is a conservative estimate, in my opinion. It will not stop there, either. As real wages decrease, still more will need to apply.
Those in control want EVERYONE to be dependent on the government. Even LBJ would likely not believe how successful his idea to make blacks vote Democrat by making them dependent on government handouts became; or that, it would one day trap significant numbers of all races the same way.
This will also affect the already hindered ability of employers to hire enough help to properly operate their businesses; i.e., when those already getting paid by the government to not work add free groceries to that, they will have even less incentive to go back to work.
PLUS, they won’t work if their salary puts them over the allowed income for food stamps.
True for many… TOO many!
25% plus the added on 10% sales taxes… (which welfare scum don’t even pay.)
There’s one thing you can do…. and it’s sort of required since we’re all stuck at home.
Cook your foods from scratch and avoid refined foods.
Now, if the price of bourbon goes up ( which BTW, the price of a 1.75L bottle of Bullitt went up 10% at Costco this spring!) then we will have a revolution.
Time to buy a 10mm.
We are taking measures to make our garden more efficient and productive. I can recommend Jill Winger’s videos on u toob.
This world is run by the devil, the Bible explains this. Even Michael chose not to confront nor rebuke the devil, at least on one occasion. Perhaps time to increase one’s faith.
Obedience is often the limiting factor in increased faith.
Took some serious faith for Elijah to douse that alter with water.
But it took simple obedience to give the Baal Boys the chop.
Wonder how things would have progressed if Elijah had already determined in his heart that “violence is never the Answer.”
I wonder if that’s precisely where we are?
I think I’m a glutton for punishment coming back for more.
this whole is like a slow motion train wreck you cannot take your eyes away from!
just when you think it is slowed down, another train crashes into the ever building pile of rubble.
whatever it takes
the more I see, the more resolve I have to never surrender to these scumbag thiefs.
What makes Americans great is our disposable income. This Federal government is hell bent on removing it.
Disposable income is a long-standing bete noire to the Left. John Kenneth Galbraith’s famous book The Affluent Society supported higher taxes because Americans would spend their disposable income foolishly.
Govt Servants are doing us the service of disposing of it for us. You’re welcome.
Note there is no discussion of measures to cover the increase grubr’t spending. That is because even for the insane, aka DemoCommies, it’s OBVIOUS we are way, WAY past any logical discussion of “our children and grand children paying” for current spending. It is LAUGHABLE to refer to ANY ABILITY for the WHOLE WORLD to PAY OFF the expenditures of the last twenty years.
If I recall correctly, Plato defined the term “democracy” as … the state of society just before Tyranny.
Period.
When the Masses realize they can spend the treasury, cuz democracy, then of course tyranny is close at hand.
I like the way you framed that! It’s true.
Dems keep thinking erroneously that money creates wealth, a notion that is a total misapprehension and that views material wealth to be a causative factor, when, in reality, it is just an output of a process, not an input (as Dems think). Expressed another way, wealth is a derivative of the application of human intelligence (or other raw material), knowledge, skill, time investment, effort and dedication directed toward the creation of goods and services that human beings require, or that are considered to be good, edifying, or entertaining.
Strictly speaking such things as talent, or any other raw material, represent capital, but they do not become wealth (a good or service) until a process is applied whereby some tangible item or service can be gained and marketed. In other words, engineering talent does not, in and of itself, result in the construction of a bridge until talent, training and effort succeed in making it happen.
Hoping to create greater true wealth by adding to the aggregate amount of circulating money (cupons, food stamps, EBT etc), is like trying to make your engine run on oil alone without a combustive process. In this sense oil and money are quite the same. They both reduce the friction inherent in the grinding functions of their respective engines, that of internal combustion and that of economic wealth creation.
If you have read this far, you will now know and understand more than a Princeton PHD. The bad part, however, is that a Princeton PHD doesn’t know much anyway.
Well there goes my 16 cents…
Well played
Illegals don’t qualify for assistance, but their anchor baby children do.
That’s what food banks are for!
The illegals all qualify for everything. There may be a law that says they don’t qualify but laws are now suggestions unless you voted for TRump.
“Illegals don’t qualify for assistance”
A mere technicality in the letter of the law; illegals are receiving plenty of assistance unavailable to citizens.
You need to read more carefully. In the article it says the 25% will be permanent and they will expand the program.
But they’ll be given amnesty, we’ll pay for their classes to become citizens, and then, they will be eligible!
Besides, sometimes they list more family members on the form than there are lines! I’m talking over 12. But just ask them (thru an interpreter, of course) how many are alive and try to get an honest answer!
Multiply 12-14 members of a household by the per person allowance per month-the results are STUNNINGLY HIGH!
Also, KEEP IN MIND, that school breakfast, lunch, after school, and summer food programs for the whole family DO NOT REDUCE THEIR FOOD STAMP BENEFITS! No, Sirree! They get all of them!
Well there sure are a lot of unqualified ones who are getting it.
The hell they don’t. Illegals get automatic benefits.
Free healthcare, food stamps, housing subsidy, clothing vouchers, etc.
no such thing as an “anchor baby”…14th Amendment only applies to persons in the country LEGALLY…if you want to think of it in terms of plants…two illegal alien trees CANNOT produce a legal tree…it is IMPOSSIBLE…btw the myth you espouse was started as an INTENTIONAL misreading of the amendment…the “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is referring to their natural allegiance to a nation…THAT would be their legal HOME country
This is a direct order from Osama for the millions of illegals invading this country.
The massive inflation relief will only help illegals and food stamp rolls will now explode. When will Americans be required to have the J#B in order to keep any government benefits like disability or social security etc etc ?
Soon, very soon.
A policy that benefits both big corporations and big government is properly called Corporatism. Both parties support such policies; that is the juggernaut we face.
How does Congress not have to approve an increase of this magnitude to our annual budget? A permanent increase especially? Why does a President alone have that much power. That is ridiculous!
BTW, food prices are also rising rapidly because of theft. We are paying for that too. When you can walk out with up to $950 per trip without paying someone has to pay.
2L, what is it going to take for you to internalize THEY DO WHAT THEY PLEASE.
You have lived under a Tyranny for months now.
WE are Venezuela.
And Frederick Douglass (and the Founders) pointed out this abuse will continue till they are made to stop precisely like every bully has to be stopped.
I did not ask for a lecture, thank you. I know all this. I said we are living in Venezuela the day after Nov 3rd.
while the $950 would apply to food as well in CA, I doubt many target the GROCERY store for that benefit….even $950 worth of meats or cheese would be quite bulky in comparison to electronics or high-end clothing
And those of us who cannot partake of these programs not only will pay higher taxes to finance these programs, but also pay the higher costs directly out of our own pockets (unlike those on these programs).
Double whammy for us.
I think the people paying for their own food should be able to write it off on taxes at this rate.
WTF why are we giving these people so much money to eat on. Some families are getting upwards of $1000+ per month before this increase LMAO.
I buy about $130 in groceries per month after tax…. their $1000 is untaxable so it is comparable to ~$1100 of what a normal person spend. This is outright theft…. The Democrat Party, Biden included are Thieves and they are trying to kill the rest of us via inflation, Covid poison jabs, etc.
Agreed Sam.
Obesity seems to be a big problem for the poor.
Glad you noted that, Seneca. I am GM for a large retailer. The overwhelming majority of SNAP customers buy thousands of dollars every month in junk. The are just about all, fatter than a five dollar ham biscuit. But still perfectly able bodied.
And if you don’t qualify for food stamps, you just have to suffer. And how long until you have to get the vaxx or no food stamps?
Will be really interesting when the majority of the black and latino populations are confronted with the decision for food stamps or the jab. The evil of this admin has no limits. They will apply any level of force necessary for their goal.
Oh Goody. Looks like Joe is planning on Massive Food Inflation w/o end.
How reassuring for those of us who are still paying for our own food.
“We must inflate prices by printing more money to hand out as a reward for unproductive behavior, in order to help the unproductive people that can’t afford to pay the inflating prices.”
You want Venezuela? This is how you get Venezuela.
Nothing says “strong economy” like putting more people on food stamps.
I’m old enough to recall it being shameful to be on government assistance.
Biden Plan for Good Health:
1) Everyone will soon be put on half-rations and will lose that weight they always wanted to lose.
2) Everyone will get a Covid Injection every 3 months and will be able to fight off all disease.
3) The temperature of the planet will be lowered and everyone will be much cooler and live longer.
4) Gas prices will be so high that a lot more people will be walking to work and the grocery Store, so more good health.
I am a fresh water economist. Biden isn’t salt water, he is sewage economist.
I knew that pharmaceuticals were more expensive here, I did not realize that everything was. It makes sense for the globalist agenda. It also makes sense how the middle class kept getting poorer and poorer until President Trump.
Sadly, another piece of the puzzle fell into place after reading this.
President Trump made a big deal about how Big Pharma was not pleased with him.
With his EO to make the USA pay less and thus more competitive prices, not only did Big Pharma see the writing on the wall, I am sure every other industry did as well.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8559761/Trump-unveils-executive-orders-curb-prescription-drug-costs-Congress-failed-reach-deal.html
President Trump was ever the champion of the American people and what was FAIR.
He knew it was unfair that Big Pharma was raking in the bucks in the USA while selling the same drugs for pennies overseas.
I am sure President Trump would have gone after the others too. Talk about a renaissance for this country had he succeeded!
How telling he had to do Big Pharma as an Executive Order.
This is yet another reason the UniParty was out to get President Trump.
Everything you said says MOTIVE for big pharma to be in bed with globalists for a de-population VAXX agenda.
When the Woo-Flu hit and Trump enlisted their help , they had a golden opportunity to release a Trojan Horse !
Big Pharma dirty Long Time ……. unethical human testing and biological warfare collaborators
I thought it at the time, SparrowHawk. Said it my hubby, this is Big Pharma’s payback to PDJT with the cherry on top being the huge profits they are currently raking in.
When we save our country, I hope we see Nurembrrg style trials.
Funny thing is Delusional Joe is scrambling now to undo the undoing of President TRUMP’s EO on brining drug prices down. I just read an article on it the other day.
I know, me too. The media will spin it as a positive when it will be hitting those on prescription meds hard.
I have NOT read all the fine print. With raising Min wage, there are more people disqualified from food stamps. I suspect he would do the marxist thing and bump it up to people making under 40,000 a year as qualified.
In a sense, we are witnessing something extraordinary in the annals of our planet.
A Ruling Aristocracy cheerily unfettered by the impingement of Reality.
Be more self reliant, plant a garden and learn to trade with your neighbors. The processed garbage from Walmart is slowly killing you anyway. I have 30 chickens that I get eggs from and I never have to buy eggs, if you have ever ate a true free range chicken egg you will never buy an egg from a grocery store again. Plant a small garden, I planted tomatos and colored butter beans and I have enough frozen tomatos to last me until next year. Ditto on the beans, if you let them dry out on the plant you don’t even need to freeze them. Just store them in jars plus you can replant them for nexts years crop
The IRS taxes bartering as income – no joke. Read the tax law.
no surprise there…they tax TIPS as income…a tip is a freely given gift under $1000 in most cases so not subject to taxation under normal rules
Thanks for these very useful tips. Folks need to set up seed libraries — remember how it was hard to get seeds in some places during the pandemic.
Gyro’s suggestions are interesting…
They provide some food for thought. 🙂
We have the senate of ancient Rome: corrupt, greedy, and evil. How bad does it have to get for people to stop re-electing these clowns?
We aren’t the machines are.
Paper only in 2022.
People have not learned that often the primaries are more important than the generals.
So food stamps recipients will get a 25% increase and social security recipients will get a 6% increase. I wonder how many SS seniors will have to cut back either food or meds.
No, the UniParty will likely work on a spending bill which will get those on SS another 0.5%. /s
I’m retired, getting SS, and just found out yesterday that my rent will be going up 10% starting December 1. So the SS increase will be gone before I even start thinking about what to put on my grocery list.
Sigh.
Just heard Jen Psaki says she’s on vacation this week? Maybe they will all go away and never come back. They are an embarrassment!
Hmm. May have to do a helicopter rooftop extraction here at my house. (As long as it’s Made in China).
Ummm, Food Stamp programs are all run by individual states, and the amount of benefits vary from state to state, so not sure how this will work.
Maybe they’re still coming up with some sort of guarantee, like the one being floated for Florida municipalities would get federal money if they resist the state order on no mask mandates for schools
No. The Food Stamp program is a Federal program, run by the Federal Government and it is administered by the states.
That’s what I said.
it IS still based on local economies as to the level of the benefit
Special prayers for McConnell and Schumer. You know the kind I mean.
Maybe we’ll get a chance to witness a REAL insurrection
Giving that big ol’ stinky sloppy squirrel a big ol’ sloppy kiss on the cheek, President Puddingbrain whispered in the squirrel’s ear, “Bases full of high tech, military weapons, and military vehicles — delivered just like we promised.”
This is a double whammy on working people and those on fixed incomes like retirees. They get NO additional money to help defray the huge increase in cost but will have to pay higher taxes to fund the new increased funding for the freeloaders.
F these illegitimate PsOS in Our House. A pox upon them all!
Sundance,
Another aspect of this inflation is keeping payments flowing above normal unemployment . Thus another $300 per week, can get you a total of $2500/month or $30,000 per year, or about $15 per hour. With businesses having trouble hireling, adds have been up to $15-16/hr. Then Dems can claim they helped the workers by effectively raising the minimum wage to $15/hr
I stopped working because my taxes were killing me. Now I earn just enough money to survive. (No I’m not on unemployment, or any govt’ handouts either.) I’m not feeding the beast any more than I have too. Unfortunately my quality of life has gone way down, but heck that is a small price to pay vs. giving the Biden and Obama scum sucking losers more of my labor and money stolen from me via hook and crook. The problem we have today with Pelosi and Bidet, etc… is these Worthless scum sucking Thieves are just printing more money…. so my little labor offset and lower amount of money stolen from me via high taxes really isn’t working like it should.
Oh my God, no! No more! I can’t take this sh!t! None of us can!
You folks who don’t work in grocery have NO idea.
Trust me I check out behind these Bum F*cking losers all the time. They use their EBT for almost all their food a whole cart overflowing full, (sometimes 2 carts), then pull out a $100 bill and buy Smokes and Alcohol. We know how bad it is./…. it is f*cking REALLY BAD…. They are eating like kings while we are almost starving. My budget is set in stone practically, a set weekly amount regardless of how expensive food goes. Yet here we have these losers getting even more FREE MONEY on our backs. Biden is laughing in our faces
and I hope the American people get the LAST LAUGH.
F*ck Biden and his whole team of Crooks, I’m tired of them STEALING FROM US HOOK & CROOK on a daily basis.
Believe it or not, the scams are even worse than that. Everybody knows, but there’s not a damned thing you can do about it. It’s a racket. One of these days, I’m going to blow up.
THe biggest scam of all is the Trillions in laundered EBT funds to Walmart and other Wealthy companies that are connected to Clintons, Pelosi, etc. Also take Notice how all the schools have been buying 20 million here and 30 million there in Imacs/ laptops, & IPADS for students…. then note how that occurred after all these sick freaks ( in Govt’) bought/owned AAPL stock and made millions off the proceeds when the company went to 2 trillion in value. Like I said Same goes for WMT shareholders who work in Congress, etc. Heck HRC was on the board and probably still makes millions off of her stock awards/holdings, That’s a 30+ year racket right there for her alone. These people are masters at laundering money.
People who pay their own way and live below their means are perpetually punished.
This year students (IL) k-12 can receive free breakfast and lunch. Families don’t even need to fill out a form. It’s all starting to make sense now!
So, 2 of 3 daily meals, for 5 of 7 days a week, for 3/4 of the year. 35.7% of kids meals are free. And food stamps get bumped 25%.
Expected inflation is much worse than they admit to.
this was the wall st result of speculation the china economy was slowing in 2015:
Dow dives 588 points at close, after historic 1,000-point plunge (cnn.com)
lets see what the street does in the shadows of the trillions dollar loss in the stan debacle tomorrow am.
I bet it hardly flinches.
It’s complicated stuff but in the end it looks like what it comes down to is a global welfare state. The problem is the churches and those in favor of the welfare state system now will be similarly on board, maybe even more so.
a Dinty Moore stew in every pew.
How does the administration get around congress appropriating the money? Increasing benefits by 27% is definitely an additional cost to the SNAP program requiring more funding to be appropriated. I thought congress was the only entity that could appropriate funds.
These benefits will include the recently located illegal aliens I suppose. Cold, Cold Anger.
Now I understand the pharmas cheaper in Canada deal.
If you ever wondered why your standard of living is going down in the USA, it’s because of these people robbing us blind EVERYDAY. They are the same scums who would steal $20 off your kitchen table, as you slept at night…. if you left it out…. and that includes Pelosi’s Scum Haggy A$$.
We know who our Enemy is…. it’s these thieves doing the reach around in our pockets. Stealing food from our families mouths, making us work harder to provide and keep a roof over our heads, while rewarding their base with free EVERYTHING.
We must find a way to stop this destruction of our country. It’s time to brainstorm ideas and then implement feasible ones.
Post ideas at this site and discuss. We cannot afford to wait around for some hero to rescue us. We must rescue ourselves!
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And who pays for the newly increased food stamps? The new slave class, the taxpayer.
They just keep throwing non existent money at these issues and never fix them, only make them worse. It’s a horror show happening in real time and I still don’t think many, most, Americans understand how bad the situation i their country and the world is right now. Without a strong, stable AMerica as a buffer to the bad guys, great chaos has been let loose on the world.
I keep thinking it can’t get worse and everyday it gets worse. I am more afraid today than I have ever been that there is going to be a cataclysmic event very soon, that will be tough to recover from if something drastic is not done to stop the assault on our nation.
Looking back, I gotta chuckle.
We were played so EASILY.
Cook up some New Flu, hype it like the Zombie Apocalypse.
Ignore for decades our vulnerable ballot boxes because too [insert expletive of choice] many of us were buying the whole white guilt for slavery scam and wouldn’t purge the voter rolls because like “Racism”.
Don’t beat the shiite out of the folks enslaving you because like “violence is never the answer, we aren’t like ‘THEM’” and here we are.
Did all the work ourselves to put the collar on our neck.
Maybe we should have spent just a bit less time telling ourselves what horrible monsters (NOT like us!) McVeigh and Anders Breivik were, and, oh I don’t know, 10 minutes, really asking ourselves, “what were they seeing that convinced them that was the only choice left to them?”
Would it make any difference to our thinking if we discovered in the sub-basements of that building and in that youth camp they were cooking up a BioWMD and learning code to tamper with voting machines?
That’s the KIND of people our Rulers are.
Probably wouldn’t change a thought, not really.
Just ain’t our style.
BLM and Antifa’s style, but we’re too genteel sophisticated for that.
“We’ll out organize them on the local and state level and get them in the next election.”
We been saying that since Lincoln made all of us slaves to The Feds by freeing some of us from the states.
Here’s a blast from the past
1968 “Free Huey” Rally
Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown.
Stokely is a hoot in retrospect preaching “we will not kill each other”,
but check out Rap at 4:31 “How many white folk you kill today?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=free+huey+rally+1968
Nobody arrested him for that.
But following logic that an unverifiable signature means an unverifiable ballot and an unverifiable election and following the hard data science on masks and vaxs has me on the Domestic Terrorist check list!
They made suckers out of us so easily.
Wonder why, precisely we became such suckers?
Maybe that’s it!
I remember distinctly at Duke Divinity a male colleague participating in a self-criticism circle about “the male’s oppression of the female.”
I looked at him and the rest of the group all females and said “Bull crap! Nearly ever single boss I ever had was a woman! I ain’t oppressed anybody. I got enough real sins to deal with to take on any fake ones!”
I’m just to much of an Irish rebel born in the bone to give a spit what the cool “in” kids are telling me is
de rigueur.
I don’t give a hoot about fitting in.
Nary a Hermit ever did!
But they played that desire in most of us like a violin.
Play nice, don’t make waves.
Be obedient don’t get rowdy. Don’t stand out.