EBT Cards Inoperative in 17 States...

During a routine test of our back-up systems Saturday morning, [our] Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system experienced a temporary shutdown. While the system is now up and running, beneficiaries in the 17 affected states continue to experience connectivity issues to access their benefits

WHL wrote:The poor grocers must have had fun putting all that food back, huh?

"Shoppers left carts of groceries behind at a packed Market Basket grocery store in Biddeford, Maine, because they couldn’t get their benefits, said fellow shopper Barbara Colman, of Saco, Maine. The manager put up a sign saying the EBT system was not in use. Colman, who receives the benefits, called an 800 telephone line for the program and it said the system was down due to maintenance, she said.

“That’s a problem. There’s a lot of families who are not going to be able to feed children because the system is being maintenanced,” Colman said. “No one should put maintenance in during the daytime.” (source)

Despite the fact that government workers report orders from the Obama administration to “make life as difficult for people as we can”, the nation is assured that the EBT failure is in fact due to server issues and NOT due to the government shutdown..."
—SHTF site

News Hawk wrote:A Louisiana Wal-Mart decides to accept EBT card purchases, even though the system is down.

(Police are called):



Our third-world society is being run by the National-Socialists to the third-world appearance of the old USSR's many "Government-run Stores", where even toilet paper shelves were empty.

http://m.ksla.com/#!/

WHL wrote:Isn't that just pathetic??!!  They get something for free and they want more.  And we are supposed to feel bad for them and give them more and more ???

WHL wrote:I think Russia and China might be more capitalistic than we are now.