Posted on 09/18/2007 8:32:59 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
210 packs of Ramen noodles...
I bet there’s a sale on bacon somewhere.
Oh BS. My ex's current wife has a full time job and two kids that don't live at home (though they claim they do) and she gets a couple of hundred dollars in food stamps a month. If the national average was $21.00 per person per month @ four people, that is $84.00. NOT the couple of hundred they get.
Reporters are too high and mighty to actually interact and get to know the poor at a personal level. Too many skiing trips, and parties to attend. They’ve often had it too easy in life, going from mommy and daddy’s house to college, then back home, then to a cushy job where you don’t have to really produce anything; you can just leech off the ‘Net or repeat what your favorite leftist said today.
Food stamps are supposed to supplement. Not “feed”.
It must be a new take on a favorite old election promise: "A lobster in every pot...unless you're allergic or something, then you can opt for prime rib."
Reminds me of the Code Pinkos and their little “hunger strike”. They cut back to one meal a day, wasn’t it?
you were rich my frist usn payday was 5 bucks aka the flying 5,they gave you the 5 at one window you steped over to the next window and gave it back
She’s only getting a couple of hundred bucks a month? she’s getting the shaft! that $21 per person is, according to this story, the allowance per week, so with 4 people she would be entitled to $336.
Best of luck to you!!!
I too am permanently disabled and qualify for zip...zero...nada! Fortunately my wife has full time work. Hope things are going better for you
Jeff
Along that same line.....Where I live in Ohio is saturated with Democrats. Last month out County officials (Dems) pulled a publicity stunt to make people aware of how hard it is to exist on food stamps. The officials lived for a month on what the average food stamp recipient does, saying its hard to get nutritious meals on the low food stamp funding.
They are trying to get more $$$ for people on food stamps. i.e. buy more votes. I work in a store that takes food stamps, what they purchase is pop candy chips easter baskets energy drinks etc. They average about $12 a day in 100% junk food. Yet, here we have are tax and spend Democrat leaders trying to give these people more $$$~!! While the bias media helps with the daily barrage of sob stories. Its disgusting. (and sadly, its working)
Half the world subsides on a staple diet of rice and beans, but it would be too demeaning to expect U.S. "poor" people to do so.
It'd be Welfare fraud. He's not elegible. He makes too much money off the taxes forcibly taken from his constituants' sweat and hard labor. Yeah, I can sound like Marx too, when necessary.
I’m just saying.
You could always just go for Rammen Noodles
at 10 cents each, 3 meals a day, 7 days. That’s $2.10
Yeah, I was on them too, when I first was forced to move back here to fight for custody of my kids, and I shopped the same way.
Here's the thing: you and I were buying FOOD. Lettuce, apples, cereal, meat, potatoes, and I've seen other women who shop like that. You can tell the difference: women like that are neater, and their kids are cleaner and better kept. And THEN there are the obese individuals with the stringy hair and misbehaved children using food stamps buy bags of candy, a couple of 2 liter bottles of soda, and all manner of expensive, prepackaged food that will last her piggy self and her kids MAYBE two weeks. They're the ones who AREN'T temporarily having a hard time and woking to change that. There seem to be more of the latter than the former at the beginning of the month.
And the other goal is to have all of us standing in bread lines so everyone gets an equal amount.
Build your own chicken coop!
http://www.ssrsi.org/sr1/Farm/coops.htm
While I do not want for much, I still buy emergency foods and supplies having long shelf lives such as canned hams and beef (5 years), sacks of rice and beans, Tang, powdered milk, and other canned foods in bulk when on sale, etc. Every year I rotate my supplies by donating that which approaches shelf life expiration to local charities. In the process my children are given life lessons in survival and giving while I receive peace of mind.
39 Cent tacos and lots of baked potatoes were the staple back in the day.
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