Posted on 09/18/2007 8:32:59 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., wants to make a point about food stamps.
Ellison was to be joined at a news conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday by Rabbi Steve Gutow, executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. They, and others, plan to live for a week on $21 -- the national average for food stamp benefits.
Ellison and others planned to announce a weeklong "Food Stamp Challenge." One of the goals is to raise the minimum food stamp benefit.
Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. The week that he and Gutow will join the challenge falls during Islam's holy month of Ramadan and between the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
"I can think of no better way to celebrate Ramadan than by participating in the Food Stamp Challenge," Ellison said in a news release. "And to do so with my brethren in the Jewish community is especially fitting because it underscores poverty does not discriminate. It knows no age or gender, no religion or race."
The Food Stamp Challenge is part of a yearlong initiative on poverty.
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Thank you for the link.
I have also noticed for years that a lot of these food stamp folks are obese.
Multiply that by 5 for a family, and you have over $100 a week.
I figure you have oatmeal, toast, or cereal and a banana for breakfast.
You have a plain homemade sandwich (peanut butter & jelly, egg salad, etc) and a piece of fruit for lunch.
Then you save the rest for dinner. You can buy bulk rice & beans to use for lots of meals. You can buy bulk hamburger and make tons of spaghetti and other meals.
You can buy a whole chicken for dinner, and then you can use the bones to make a good brother for the next day.
I think it would be hard for 1 person to live on $21 a day, but easier for a family of 5 to live on $100 a week.
However, a single person could always get together with others on food stamps and split purchases. Instead of buying a dozen eggs a week, they split it with another person.
Plus, there are lots of buy one get one free at the grocery store. If you always take advantage of that.
I forgot to add that poor kids in public school also get free lunch (and I think breakfast), so it would be really easy for a family of five to live on $100/week.
$110.00 a month when I went in. Had to drink Grain Belt and Hamm’s only.
Oh, yummy. A big pander sandwich with a side of bleeding heart.
There you go, thinking like a conservative, again...
;-)
Try $70 a week:
http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/70dollarmenu.htm
Or even $45 if you’re feeling the pinch:
http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/40dollarmenu.htm
I know, it's a bad habit! ;-)
Conservatives offer opportunity and a paycheck, and liberals offer narcotic welfare. LIBERALISM: Those who create permanent under classes with other peoples' money.
Safeway.
Last day of the sale, today.
6 pounds (Product of the USA) for $9.99--with the Club Card. That is about 50% off.
I'll be wrapping 12 pounds (Sorted through about 30 packages to find 2 really lean ones) for the freezer later today.
That, plus $0.35/can black, navy, pinto, Great Northern, or red beans at our 'dented can' outlet....
I REALLY learned how to shop under Jimmah Catarrh. Jimmah provided me with a "free" education I neither wanted nor needed, since I had already learned plenty from my Depression-era (married in 1928) parents.
Are the two POS going to reimburse the gov. for those food stamps the take.
Oh, wait, that would take courage.
Good point Mimaw.....but it’s us, the tax payers that need to be reimbursed.
He’s not going to actually use the food stamps. he’s going to limit his spending to $21 for the week.
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