Government Freezes EBT Funds: Orders States to Withhold Transfers to Food Stamp RecipientsMac Slavo The outage lasted less than a day, but it proved what many already knew, that America had become a nation so dependent on government subsidies that any glitch in the system could lead to total pandemonium. But if you thought that isolated incident was bad, imagine what could happen next month. We say next month because the USDA, which oversees the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), has just issued an order to SNAP agency directors calling for their respective States to implement an emergency contingency program because of government funding issues. In a letter obtained by the Crossroads Urban Center food pantry, the USDA is directing state agencies to, delay their November issuance files and delay transmission to State Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) vendors until further notice. What this means is that should Congress fail to increase the debt ceiling this week, come November there will literally be millions of people in the United States who will have exactly zero dollars transferred to their EBT cards. Think this past weekend and multiply it across the entirety of the United States of America. In the State of Utah the immediate effect of the USDAs contingency plan will be a freeze in benefits for 100,000 people. Richard Phillips, a homeless man who depends on the governments monthly distributions, warned what would happen next: Its going to cause problems because then youre going to come to find out that youre going to have people starting to steal and do what they have to do to survive. Video Report via The Daily Sheeple: You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com, where this first appeared. 