Dr. Eowyn posted: "On Oct. 12, 2013, the food stamps (Electronic
Benefits Transfer or EBT) computer system went down in several states,
including Louisiana. Reportedly, Xerox, a vendor for the EBT system,
experienced a power outage while conducting a routine backup test " Respond
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/> Louisiana Gov. Bobby
Jindal strips food stamps looters of their
“benefits”<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/11/08/louisiana-gov-bobby-jindal-strips-food-stamps-looters-of-their-benefits/>
by
Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>
On Oct. 12, 2013, the food stamps (Electronic Benefits Transfer or EBT)
computer system went
down<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/10/15/food-stamps-glitch-is-a-glimpse-into-pandemonium-to-come/>in
several states, including Louisiana.
Reportedly, Xerox, a vendor for the EBT system, experienced a power outage
while conducting a routine backup test in one of the company’s locations.
Many stores turned away EBT shoppers, but not Wal-Mart stores in Springhill
and Mansfield, Louisiana. Those stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even
though, since the EBT system was down, the cards were not showing limits.
The store managers called corporate Walmart, whose spokesman said to let
the food-stampers use the cards anyway.
In other words: *FREE STUFF!*
What happened was not pretty. The food-stampers went into a buying looting
frenzy, stripping the stores’ shelves by the end of the day.
[image: EBT
run]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/ebt-run.jpg>Local
police in Springhill and Mansfield were brought in for crowd control
because there were so many people clearing off the shelves.
At 9 p.m., *when the cards came back online *and it was announced over the
loud speaker, *people just left their carts filled to overflowing in the
aisles and left.*
[image: EBT
run2]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/ebt-run2.jpg>Now,
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is holding the looters accountable.
>From
>bizpacreview.com<http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/11/07/louisiana-food-stamp-abusers-will-lose-benefits-over-wal-mart-free-for-all-86692>(via
Clash
Daily<http://clashdaily.com/2013/11/looting-mooches-la-food-stamp-abusers-will-lose-benefits-wal-mart-free/>
):
*Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his administration took steps late
Wednesday to strip food stamp benefits from those who loaded up their
shopping carts knowing they had insufficient funds in their Electronic
Benefits Transfer accounts during a system failure in October.*
*As a result of the temporary outage, over 12,000 transactions in Louisiana
showed non-sufficient funds once the system got back online and retailers
were able to process the purchases, according to The Advocate
<http://theadvocate.com/home/7514395-125/jindal-moves-to-strip-food>.*
*The Oct. 12 computer glitch wasn’t limited to Louisiana. At least 17
states
<http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/10/13/ebt-card-system-down-in-17-states-chaos-ensues-85158>
were affected, resulting in many shoppers overflowing their carts to take
advantage
<http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/10/14/shoppers-trash-walmart-take-advantage-of-ebt-card-glitch-85244>
of the outage.*
*Under Jindal’s new directive, recipients will lose benefits for one year,
two years or permanently, depending on how many prior violations they have
on their record.*
*The Jindal administration will start with the worst cases first, according
to Suzy Sonnier, secretary of the state Department of Children and Family
Services.*
*“We must protect the program for those who receive and use their benefits
appropriately according to the law,” Sonnier said in a prepared statement,
according to The Advocate “We are looking at each case individually,
addressing those recipients who are suspected of misrepresenting their
eligibility for benefits or defrauding the system.”*
Well done, Governor Jindal!
Under the POS’s presidency, the number of Americans receiving food stamps
exploded. Today, one in five U.S. households
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/05/06/1-in-5-u-s-households-on-food-stamps-incl-illegals/>are
on food stamps. Worse still, we are taking two steps back for every step
forward: For every new job that’s been created, two new
recipients<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/07/24/no-economic-recovery-2-new-food-stamps-recipients-for-every-new-job-created/>(let’s
call them food-stampers) are added to the food stamps dole.
*~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>* | November
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