[Atlas Sneezed]

If you have $3 for the week you buy those things instead of a bag of grapes.

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Are you insane? No one proposes to feed a family on $3/week. (I could do it, but even feeding one on that would be tough.)

When you inject false premises, you end up with bad results.

Let's try $30/week for the welfare mom and her 2 kids. That does not force them to buy all potatoes and bread(which is rather expensive, by the way, but a $3 loaf of whole grain bread will last the better part of a week anyway.)

[A knight without armor]

I know you give good advice. No, I meant $3 for one person. I just was talking about people who find themselves so low. I'm not trying to be sarcastic but not everyone flops their butt onto welfare. Sometimes people scrape along until things get better. By the way, you are so right about the mom & kids. I know a single, childless female who went on food stamps last fall and I am shocked at how much she receives. I agree that with however food stamps are figured they are quite adequate for good nutrition. Not only that, if she wishes she has the opportunity to go someplace and receive flat out free food including fresh produce, too. And it is of good quality.