What's the change? More welfare? Cut out food stamps altogether and then we won't need stupid politicians to make these stupid grandstands.
Yellow cornmeal $1.43
2 jars strawberry preserves 4.80
1 jar chunky peanut butter 2.48
2 packages angel-hair pasta 1.54
Chock Full o’ Nuts coffee 2.50
3 cans tomato sauce 4.50
2 containers cottage cheese 3.00
1 loaf wheat bread 0.89
1 head of garlic 0.32
Tim Ryan doesn’t know how to shop worth a durn. That much for tomato sauce and pasta? Why get preserves at all?
At a dollar per meal - breakfast - oatmeal, milk, raisins, walnuts, tea - about 50 cents.
Lunch - peanut butter sandwiches or left over from dinner, piece of fruit, about a dollar.
Dinner - rice and beans with vegetables, cook Mexican or Indian for flavor, about 1.50.
Throw in a cheap multivitamin for a few pennies.
Mrs VS
10 pounds of chicken leg quarters is $4.60, rice and beans ar cheap. Frozen veggies, which are nearly as good as fresh are less than $1 a pound.
Anyone who is willing to take the time and price check, and then (horrors) actually cook, can survive on $21 a week.
Average allotment is a meaningless number, because it presumes the recipient is supplement his normal food purchases with food stamps. His actual food purchases would be higher. These political hacks should be using the maximum allotment.
Food Stamps are a supplement designed to help families with their food bills. They were never intended to provide for ALL of a family’s nutritional needs.
Is it asking too much to expect citizens to take some responsibility for their own well being?
Well... I suppose it is... judging from this idiotic exercise in government nannyism.
Food Stamps, plus a little enlightened consumerism, will go a long way toward providing good nutrition.
For example, I buy ten pounds of long-grain rice for about 35 cents a pound. If you buy the small package of convenience rice you’ll pay up to $3 pound. And it’s all right there on the supermarket shelf clearly visible to anyone with two brain cells to rub together.
Take away food stamps and welfare altogether and watch how resourceful people are. Suddenly, that landscaping/dishwashing/cashier job isn’t so bad after all.
People aren’t supposed to *live* off food stamps. It is for short term *assistance* with food needs.
It’s a crime to charge people for food. Let the tax payers pay for it.
May the PR stunt commence. Those poor congresscritters, my handkerchief is saturated by my tears of sorrow. 'Tis a shame they have to go through this.
Listen, senators...the whole idea about having a lousy job is the emotional and financial pressure to better yourself and GET A BETTER ONE.
If they’re going to to this then they need to stay on foodstamps for about three generations. Also, ‘foodstamps’ isn’t really what they get any more. That’s so 60s. The congressmen should also get some free daycare for their kids, free housing, help with their utilities, and a monthly check from mama guv’mint.
Even if you low ball it at four people that's $84.00/wk or approx $360 a month (4.3 wks). You can buy a lot of food for $360.00.
PLUS if this fictional family is so poor they get food stamps, then their kids are eating 'free' at school for two of their meals. And in most states thats all year round. And if its 5 in the family (3 kids) the food stamp give away comes to $452.00 a month (again 4.3wk avg /mo).
Sheesh, why didn't Kaitlyn really stretch the injustice (sarc) of food stamps and break it down per hour.
MEAN REPUBLICANS ONLY GIVES POOR PEOPLE $.125/HR TO EAT!!
Coffee is a luxury on this budget...buy a gallon of milk for the calcium.
What they ought to do is take the “combat challenge” and go out on patrol in Iraq for a month.
Think they would?
Nope.
As a general rule, the poorer a person is, the fatter they tend to be.
We don’t have poor people starving in this country. The problem is quite the opposite.
Here some hints:
The starving student method: Top Ramen, check the discount grocery store, check the bin with meat and other food near its expiration date, wander by the salad bar or deli when they close up (sometime you can get a whole roasted chicken for $3.00 or so), save those little packets of salt, pepper, ketchup, sugar, etc. from previous visits to fast-food places.
The depression era method: Cream tuna on toast (bread bought from the day-old bread store), boil the chicken bones for the scraps of meat and soup base, beans, cornflakes, milk, flour, butter, other basic staple ingredients.
SKIP: organic foods, name brands, gourmet foods, etc.
This is bull. I know alot of people on the government dole. Several of them get more food stamps than they can use. They give them away, sell them, and buy groceries for other people just to get rid of them. Those people who are getting very little have an income high enough where their foodstamps are cut down.