I don't know about that, but the mother is definitely not about to run any marathons any time soon.
Posted on 08/07/2007 11:00:37 AM PDT by NEMDF
bing cherries, tv dinners, shrimp cocktail?
And what is healthful about TV dinners, Kool Aid and frozen pizzas???
I thought food stamps were just supposed to cover milk, cheese, eggs, beans, tuna, juice, peanut butter...stuff like that? Granted, I have to admit, I’ve never seen a food stamp...are they stamps?
No sympathy from me either. Cry me a river lady, I’d love to blow $500/month on groceries.
Who writes this stuff anyway?
She certainly has time to make food from scratch for much cheaper.Cheaper and tastier!
Monte, the 15-year-old, is a no-show. The two oldest live in Missouri.
Oldest child is a high school graduate. He should have a job and be supporting himself. (What do you bet the "girlfriend's" child is also his?) Second child is out of the house ... in Juvenile Detention, it sounds like, as well as in Missouri.
That leaves her with herself, a 13-year-old boy, and a 10-year-old girl. And nothing to do but cook nutritious meals for them.
They used to be coupons, but now many states have gone to an electronic debit card so the recipients won't have their precious self esteem damaged by being readily recognized as parasites.
To her credit, at least two of her kids have he same last name as she does. That’s unusual for this kind of story.
I don't know about that, but the mother is definitely not about to run any marathons any time soon.
Have to disagree. I live in Omaha, and my 15 year-old daughter had a choice between 2 jobs that she was offered, both working in grocery stores for minimum wage plus.
The jobs are there if the kids go looking for them.
We had that program here in Colorado as well--it's a federal government program. My husband kept noticing all these Mexican families heading into the school each morning. I just happened to look at the local school district's website and discovered the "free" program. They were feeding kids from anywhere from 1 years old on up to 18.
The food budget does goe up in the summer, but I’m surprised her 10 pounds of hamburger only makes four meals. That’s 2 1/2 pounds per meal! For only five people? Ten pounds would be 10 meals around here ;-)
Same thing at our house! For those of you who like to save money, there’s a great website: www.hillbillyhousewife.com. Lots of cheap menus, grocery lists, money saving info & good recipes too!
Perhaps this story will help enlighten others who don’t understand how their tax dollars are being spent. When we hear this election season how we must do more to help the poor, about how women and children are at the bottom of the poverty level, and how we must spend more to get them out of poverty, that we must have government health care for the poor remember this story. She gets help with her cost of housing, she spends more money on food than most of us, does her government housing include heat, air and water, she may have gotten free child care, free medical and dental. Makes sumcks out of thoes of us who try to support our families, then help to support her.
$500.00 per month? Is that before taxes, or after? Oh Wait! It’s tax free!. That works out to somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.70 per hour, taking into account our wonderful Government taxes and fees. That’s not even taking into account other welfare “freebies” which provide housing and addtional incomes. Since minimum wage is in the neighborhood of $5.85 per hour, there’s no incentive to ever get a job! She has 2 ADULT children. Why aren’t they supplementing the income? Notice that she has enough money for cab rides and cell phones, though.
She should have put those planning skills to work before she got knocked up 5 times.
True - and I had the ages backward: the boy is only 10, which means he eats about half as much as he would if he were 13 :-).
She has a four-bedroom apartment, too, presumably because she had all four children living with her at some point.
I’d rather live in a tent with my 8 kids than have this woman’s life, but if the news source is trying to make us think she’s “poor,” they’ve failed!
Walmart has cheepo brand seeds for a dime! Think about i, with a little labor and a buck, you can have your very own farmers market, and can the stuff to last all year. But noooooooooooo, she needs $500 for groceries, plus free rent and $500 for toilet paper and crack.
Drug testing should be mandatory for all wlefare types, with a one-srike & you are out policy, for life.
I thought I was the only one to eyeball the cherries and keep on walking once I saw the price!
Shepard pauses, her bad foot still smarting from a slip on the ice while walking home from a party in December. The broken bones have temporarily exempted her from food stamp work requirements.
I spend about 500 to feed 4 of us but that includes household cleaning products and food and litter for 4 cats and 2 strays. Also we hardly eat out.
I also pay for it myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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