[ButThreeLeftsDo]

A whole week, Keith??

Wow, you're my hero!

Keith could stand to lose at least 25 lbs.

[darkwing104]

I used to get by on less than that when I was a lowly Airman.

[Jeffrey_D.]

Hey Keith!!! The purpose of food stamps is to help out....NOT feed them for free!!.....stupid politician vote buying crapola!

[cardinal4]

A whole week?? I have done whole semesters on less, with a family and a full time job. We never had food stamps..

[KarlInOhio]

Food stamps are meant to be a supplement to the money you earn. That is even more true for the person getting the average food stamp payment instead of the absolute maximum. These "live on food stamps for a week" stunts are getting tiresome.

[linn37]

I have a better idea,how about they get the recipients to work for a month and get back to me.

[Red Badger]

Dried Beans, Rice, Flour, Powdered Milk, enough for a week I believe can be bought for $21..............

[wilco200]

What a joke.

Buy a box of cereal for about $4-$5 and a half gallon of milk for about $2-$3

8 bucks. Next challenge.

[Red_Devil 232]

Food stamps are not meant to "support" an individual, they are meant to supplement a low income, not replace an income!

So Ellison

GET A JOB!

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I’m just waiting until the wise Democrats have set everything up so that I can get free food, free housing, and free health care so that I can retire.

[1rudeboy]

So what’s Rep. Ellison going to do, buy three pistachios a day and buy booze with the change?

[N. Theknow]

My former church had the great idea to have the Vestry sleep outdoors in cardboard boxes to show concern for the homeless.

I suggested if they wanted to show real concern instead of fake outpourings of "warm-fuzzies" which they could walk away from at any time for any reason, they should house a homeless person or family for a month.

We moved on to the next item on the agenda fairly quickly.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

And he’s doing it during Ramadan, so he’s not going to be eating all day, anyway.

[MaxMax]

Grab one of these and earn some beer money.

[for-q-clinton]

So the avg is $21/week. how much income does the average person make when getting food stamps? I know it’s not $0. So this is so far off it’s not even funny.

Proof that they make more than $21...they can still buy a carton of cigs for the week which is more than $21. And they can still buy a case of beer for the weekend.

If the poor can do that with $21 in food stamps (which aren’t even allowed to buy cigs and booze) they missed their calling...they should have been investment brokers.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I have a novel idea:

Why don’t you grow a vegetable garden and raise chickens in the backyard?

Oh wait!!! That’s work…never mind.

[Fido969]

$21 -- the national average for food stamp benefits.

Misleading - any "reporters" have the guts to call this guy on it?

[evets]

"I swear on this stack of Korans....

...I will live on only $21 a week."

[boomop1]

No one cares what this moron does, he is a big mistake for Minn.

[Red_Devil 232]

Anybody here read the article? It says they "planned" to announce that they "planned" to go on food stamps. The article does not say that they actually even anounced it or went on it!

[Old Professer]

Living a week on food stamps, spending the night with the homeless under the bridge, doing all of one’s business while confined to a wheelchair for a day, volunteering in an emergency room on a typical Friday night shift, shaving one’s head in solidarity with cancer sufferers, wearing an oversized pillow under one’s shirt for a week to identify with the pregnant, riding a city bus through the tenderloin - about the only thing these silly-assed copycats haven’t done is try to make ends meet on two tricks a night on the street outside the Rescue Mission.