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	<title>Comments on: Krueger on Food Stamp Access</title>
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		<title>By: Administrator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a reminder: we&#8217;re here to disagree <i>civilly</i>. Comments that include profanity and direct personal attacks may be removed by site administrators.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Ms.Kruger:
You had written:
“As food prices soar and the economy plummets, we need to use every option available to maximize benefits and support hungry New Yorkers.”
So,please, be known that one of options which is illegally not available is article 7USC2014(d)(12). The article requests to exclude COLA benefit (made annually on January 1)for SS beneficiaries. But NYC HRA administration annually reduces the food stamps amount for those people, illegally considering the COLA benefit as an income.
COLA - cost of living adjustment.
Please, press Bloomberg and Doar to execute the law.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Ms.Kruger:<br />
You had written:<br />
“As food prices soar and the economy plummets, we need to use every option available to maximize benefits and support hungry New Yorkers.”<br />
So,please, be known that one of options which is illegally not available is article 7USC2014(d)(12). The article requests to exclude COLA benefit (made annually on January 1)for SS beneficiaries. But NYC HRA administration annually reduces the food stamps amount for those people, illegally considering the COLA benefit as an income.<br />
COLA &#8211; cost of living adjustment.<br />
Please, press Bloomberg and Doar to execute the law.</p>
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		<title>By: snowball</title>
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		<dc:creator>snowball</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are you as bent out of shape about the $45M to retrain obviously incompetent financial &quot;professionals&quot;?

I know I&#039;d like to have the security of a state-sponsored PEP behind me every time I screw the pooch.

When does the champagne trickle-down again?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you as bent out of shape about the $45M to retrain obviously incompetent financial &#8220;professionals&#8221;?</p>
<p>I know I&#8217;d like to have the security of a state-sponsored PEP behind me every time I screw the pooch.</p>
<p>When does the champagne trickle-down again?</p>
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		<title>By: Bob</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fall into line behind Obama Liz Krueger.  Maybe he will throw you a bone for your political career if you carry water for him.  Our city has been through the welfare mill already, we do not want to return to the days of extreme dependence on the government.  And what is this about &quot;soaring&quot; food costs.  Commodity prices are down and I don&#039;t notice soaring costs on my grocery bill--but then I pay for it myself.  
You are just another windbag full of Democratic National Committee rhetoric.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fall into line behind Obama Liz Krueger.  Maybe he will throw you a bone for your political career if you carry water for him.  Our city has been through the welfare mill already, we do not want to return to the days of extreme dependence on the government.  And what is this about &#8220;soaring&#8221; food costs.  Commodity prices are down and I don&#8217;t notice soaring costs on my grocery bill&#8211;but then I pay for it myself.<br />
You are just another windbag full of Democratic National Committee rhetoric.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Millstone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel Millstone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I loathe to say it, but this dispute -- in which I think Mr. Bloomberg is outrageously in the wrong-- may be of smaller importance on the ground than it is on a policy level. The idea that our Billionaire Mayor should be snatching food assistance out of eligible people&#039;s mouth&#039;s is, of course, just appalling. In actual practice, though, I&#039;ve seen and heard of unemployed people getting food stamps without being caught up in the nightmare minutia  of WEP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I loathe to say it, but this dispute &#8212; in which I think Mr. Bloomberg is outrageously in the wrong&#8211; may be of smaller importance on the ground than it is on a policy level. The idea that our Billionaire Mayor should be snatching food assistance out of eligible people&#8217;s mouth&#8217;s is, of course, just appalling. In actual practice, though, I&#8217;ve seen and heard of unemployed people getting food stamps without being caught up in the nightmare minutia  of WEP.</p>
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