Sunday, October 13, 2013

72 Hour Warning: Grocery Stores Across the Country Turn Away Hungry Shoppers as EBT System Crashes

These grocery stores ought to be shut down permanently..This goes with taking all whose in the corporation down permanently, arrested, charged with HIGH TREASON and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law !!!!!!


72 Hour Warning: Grocery Stores Across the Country Turn Away Hungry Shoppers as EBT System Crashes
Posted By: Watchman
Date: Saturday, 12-Oct-2013 22:40:27

 
Abandoned carts full of food were a frequent sight in grocery stores Saturday morning, as the EBT food assistance debit system stopped working without warning.
According to a Xerox spokesperson, a routine system check by the vendor resulted in system failure, leaving assistance recipients across the country with no way to buy food.
Xerox spokeswoman Karen Arena confirmed via email Saturday afternoon that some Electronic Benefits Transfer systems are experiencing temporary connectivity issues. She said technical staff is addressing the issue and expects the system to be restored soon. U.S. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Courtney Rowe underscored that the outage is not related to the government shutdown. Xerox runs EBT card systems for 17 states and all were affected by the outage. (source)
Users of EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) cards in California, Ohio, Michigan and several other states are unable to make purchases due to connectivity issues.
But it gets worse…
Xerox is notifying retailers to revert to the manual system, meaning SNAP customers can spend up to $50 until the system is back online. SNAP recipients should call the 800 number on the back of their card, and Xerox will guide them through the purchase process. (source)
However, that system is not working either – it’s “closed for maintenance.”
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.
Keep in mind that the truckers are also on a general strike this weekend, protesting in Washington DC against high gas prices, rampant unemployment, and corruption in the US government.
Between October 11th and 13th they have called for a general strike, asking truck drivers around the country to refuse to haul freight, a move that could carry with it a significant impact on the American economy.
The protest calls for truckers to make their way to Washington D.C. in a massive convoy in an effort to call attention to, among other things, the Benghazi cover-up, the recent attack which killed 25 members of Seal Team 6, ever rising fuel prices, and claims that President Obama has engaged in treasonous crimes. (source)
Things are already starting to get ugly. ZeroHedge posted the following Tweets.
NOBODIES EBT CARD IS GOING THRU AT WALMART
“@Creamteam_bitch: Government done shut down the #EBT cards in Ga… These folks going crazy in walmart lol”swearrrr
EBT is down so Walmart is complete chaos right now, so glad I’m leaving in 2 hours
EBT down at walmart and MF going crazy!
THEY DONE SHUT DOWN EBT CARDS IN MISSISSIPPI…… Walmart fulla mad motha fuckas right now
I almost just killed some people at Walmart, EBT is apparently down today #madhouse
This is your 72 hour warning. If you don’t already have a two week supply of food and water, now might be a good day to go stock up, just in case this is the beginning of a bigger crisis. The first three days after a major event are your window of opportunity to get prepared, based on the just-in-time food supply in grocery stores and the amount of food most people store in their homes.
If the EBT failure continues, look for the situation to get progressively worse.
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/72-hour-warning-grocery-stores-across-the-country-turn-away-hungry-shoppers-as-ebt-system-crashes/61206

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is weird, we are always saying we are sick and tired of Government interfering with our lives, and yet we want the Government to support us and our families, and when the government doesn't we get angry and start looting the stores, and this innocent people, the store owners, that have nothing to do with us depending on the Government to feed us are going to be harmed by our lawless actions?
It just doesn't make sense to me, why are you demanding the store owners should be jailed? because they don't want to feed you for free? I said ALL LOOTERS SHOULD BE JAILED!! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TAKE WHAT IS NOT YOURS!!! GO OUT AND PICK SOME CANS AND SELL THEM SO YOU HAVE MONEY TO FEED YOUR FAMILIES, STOP BEING A PARASITE!!! WE, THE PEOPLE THAT WORK AND PAID TAXES IN THIS COUNTRY ARE SICK AND TIRED OF SUPPORTING YOU!!! ENOUGH, GET A JOB OR STARVE TO DEATH OR ROT IN PRISON!!!