College kids securing EBT cards along with degrees
Wash Syndicate
As yesterday was the first of the month, ATMs in certain sections of the city quickly ran out of cash and the lines at EBT processing centers spanned out the door in numerous locations.
Long known as Food Stamps since their initial inception in the late 1930′s and codified in law on August 31, 1964 in the Food Stamp Act of 1964 but formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program (SNAP) since its re-branding in 2008, this tentacle of America’s welfare society has long been associated in America’s collective consciousness with po’ inner-city and rural trailer park white folk who are lifelong parasitic dependents on the working American taxpayer. However, a new day has in deed dawned in Obama’s America.
According to a flurry of recent articles and blog posts, it seems there is a new trend developing within the seemingly inclusive world of the social services industrial complex as college students are now taking full force advantage of extremely liberal and thus personally favorable criteria that allows for middle class children of all ethnicities and walks of life to apply for and receive food stamps. (Under the recently signed, yet unconstitutional, Health Care bill college kids can continue to be weened on their parents health insurance until they are 26.)
According to The Daily Caller,
The USDA is pushing to regional SNAP offices to ease eligibility requirements and forgo checking people’s financial situations before providing benefits. President Obama’s latest budget included $72.5 billion for food stamps — nearly double the amount from 2008. Approximately 38 million people, or 13 percent of the U.S. population is on food stamps.
Only 83% of eligible District residents, and 36% of eligible low-income working families, receive food stamps. Every $1 of food stamps spent in the community generates $1.85 in local economic activity. D.C. would gain millions in federal funds by signing up eligible households – funds that would stimulate the local economy. People who work sometimes assume they are not eligible for food stamps, or that time-off from work is required to apply. This is not true. A family of 3 with a minimum wage earner could be eligible for over $3,000 annually in benefits, and working families can complete phone interviews rather than go to the food stamp office in-person.
The Syndicate can glean the above stats preceded last summer’s passing of the Food Stamp Expansion Act of 2009 by city officials and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by national politicos. Both bills have been touted as expanding eligibility for Food Stamps near and far.
Everyday more than 20,ooo folks secure their EBT cards and their social justice benefits as defined by progressives, joining the 38 million, 13% of Americans already holding EBT cards. According to the USDA, “41 percent of participants are white; 36 percent are African-American, non-Hispanic; 18 percent are Hispanic; 3 percent are Asian, 2 percent are Native American, and 1 percent are of unknown race or ethnicity.”
The Syndicate does not know how many students at HU, AU, GU, GWU, Trinity, CUA, and other colleges and universities within the city have EBT cards, but it looks like UDC students will no longer have exclusive province and access to this program. As an anecdote, I heard years ago from a friend who worked for DC’s DHS that more college students, from all over the city, came into their office to apply and secure Food Stamps than you would otherwise think.
From Salon’s “Hipsters on food stamps” which chronicles ragged pink liberal educated fools from uneducated schools,
In the John Waters-esque sector of northwest Baltimore — equal parts kitschy, sketchy, artsy and weird — Gerry Mak and Sarah Magida sauntered through a small ethnic market stocked with Japanese eggplant, mint chutney and fresh turmeric. After gathering ingredients for that evening’s dinner, they walked to the cash register and awaited their moments of truth.
“I have $80 bucks left!” Magida said. “I’m so happy!”
“I have $12,” Mak said with a frown.
The two friends weren’t tabulating the cash in their wallets but what remained of the monthly allotment on their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program debit cards, the official new term for what are still known colloquially as food stamps.
This soft America we now live in, prophesied in 2003′s ”Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future” by one of America’s most preeminent and trusted intellectuals Michael Barone, has been perpetuated by raggedy progressive liberals who cling to their social justice rhetoric and are bitter because the United States Constitution, the greatest legal document the world has ever known, is filled with “negative liberties.”
The Syndicate MOBS 24/7/365 utilizing opportunities for ambition and advantage and knows right from wrong. In the age of white guilt and white privilege, this ain’t right.
This is not a good look. It is not making moves, hustling, or mobbing. It is being a broken down trick at the long and swift pimp hand of the government.
Another friend, after paying taxes and working for more than 2 decades, who fell on hard times remarked that she hates to do it, but since these programs are out there for her to legally rob, she is marauding with a fury.
Apply for your EBT card in the city here, resources from DC Hunger Solutions here.
From Daily Caller, Cato, NY Times
Adversary continues MOBBING on BET’s Freestyle Friday
Later today local legend Adversary will continue MOBBING on the national cable airwaves as he answers the bell to another round of BET’s Freestyle Friday’s March Mayhem. Keep doing what you’re built for ADV. Much love and respect 4LIFE.
Last week Adversary advanced as the #2 seed, after previously winning Freestyle Friday for 5 consecutive weeks this past fall when I had a moment to catch up with the man in constant motion. Full text below.
Wash Syndicate
By John Muller SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
“BET helps rise of local rapper“
Standing outside the Red Line’s Glenmont Metro station, a voice bellows from the passing Y8 bus headed north on Georgia Avenue, “Yo, Adversary. Did your thing son. We out here for you all day.”
Chris Suer, 25, of Glenmont, doesn’t recognize the voice, but meets and hears from new people every day since recently winning “Freestyle Friday” on Black Entertainment Television’s (BET) popular “106 & Park” five weeks in a row from Sept. 18 to Oct. 16.
Mr. Suer, known by his rap name Adversary since he was 14, is not a new kid on the block. He initially performed freestyle raps in the John F. Kennedy High School cafeteria while his friends provided makeshift beats by pounding the lunch table. Mr. Suer then began traveling to university campuses, such as James Madison, Howard, and Maryland in College Park, to compete in regional freestyle competitions.
“It was easy money,” said Mr. Suer, who recalls selling his CDs in the hallways and at the Redskins store at Wheaton Plaza, where he worked while in high school. He now sells his music online.
At 16, Mr. Suer released the first of his four albums and seven mix tapes. In 2005, he co-founded the independent label Black Ink Entertainment, which he promoted after each win on “Freestyle Friday.”
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Adversary also can be heard on WPGC-FM 95.5 and WKYS-FM 93.9, where he appeared for more than 20 consecutive weeks from December 2004 to May 2005 as the “Ultimate Cypher Champion.”
BET’s “106 & Park,” set in Midtown Manhattan, first aired Sept. 11, 2000. The introduction of ”Freestyle Friday” soon followed. After numerous transformations and reincarnations, the segment now reaches more than 1.2 million American viewers with a growing overseas viewership, said Pat Charles, senior show writer for “106 & Park” and casting director for “Freestyle Friday.”
To appear on the show, Mr. Suer auditioned July 24 in New York City, where he competed with nearly a dozen aspiring rappers over the course of three hours.
“Adversary is the first from the [D.C.] area who has come on and stood the test of time,” Mr. Charles said. “The best way to get respect is to earn it, and he’s done that by showing how much creative talent and stamina he has. All that tough talk doesn’t work. He understands the value of true lyrical-based entertainment.”
On March 5, 2010, the second annual “March Mayhem” begins. Eight past winners will compete for a large prize package, including free beats from some of hip-hop’s most successful producers.
“The winners won’t just go home with the glory,” Mr. Charles said. “They could launch a career by going to a major label with their demo with industry recognized production.”
He added that “this year’s tournament is highly anticipated and will be extremely competitive. I see Adversary being one of the favorites.”
Since qualifying for “March Mayhem,” Mr. Suer has shared the stage with platinum selling hip-hop artists Fabulous and Young Jeezy at Bowie State’s homecoming and spent long hours into the night working on his next album in BassHeads Studios in Silver Spring.
“The best feeling was proving to everyone I’d accomplish what I said would. I don’t get big-headed about fame,” said Mr. Suer, who is a residential counselor at a group home in Montgomery County.
“More people know who I am now than they did a few weeks ago but I’m on a mission I have to finish,” he said. “There is entirely too much going on in these streets to be sidetracking our youth with garbage music and facades.”
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