Posted on 11/08/2011 5:02:19 PM PST by Sub-Driver
DNC chairwoman joins food stamp challenge By Ariel Katz - 11/08/11 03:13 PM ET
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) joined at least 10 other Democratic House members on Monday in participating in the food stamp challenge.
“Started #FoodStampChallenge today. 46m Americans subsist on $31.50/week. Bought 1st 4 days of food for $18. So tough! http://yfrog.com/h2ehabhj”, Wasserman Schultz tweeted Monday night.
The food stamp challenge consists of living for a week on the average food stamp budget, which Democratic congressmen are participating in to show the struggles of surviving on food stamps.
Wasserman Schultz tweeted her first meal early on Tuesday: “Lunch: tuna sandwich & apple w/ tap H20. #FoodStampChallenge shows how hard surviving on food stamps really is. We must fight hunger in US!”
Like previous Democratic House participants, Wasserman Schultz is taking suggestions from followers on Twitter.
Wasserman Schultz has heeded some of their advice, buying generic-brand peanut butter and mac and cheese.
Wasserman Schultz has her plate full, also juggling her role
as chairwoman of the Democratic Party.
You're right - and many of the folks getting food stamps also have subsidized housing, help with property taxes (if they own) and a host of other benefits that working people don't have...
Shame on Dems for trying to scam the public into believing it's 1930 and the poor are poor...
"Well there's your problem right there!" says Debbie Dum-Dum. "Thinking when you're supposed to be listening to those of us who know what's best for you....maybe we need to ban it!"
They make a living spending other peoples money.
Bogus.
In Virginia the food stamp allotment is $200/ month for a single person with income up to $1100 a month.
The ‘average’ is for someone with plenty of income for their food.
Does this mean she is going to stop going to those $500 lunches and not take any $1000 handshakes?
Pray for America
31.50 a week.
I call BULL.
I know a couple near-by neigbors who get food stamps - $200 a month. For 52 weeks - that’s $46.15 a week.
I’m on Social Security and no food stamps, thank you.- and I know how to make that amount work - and I eat well. I know how to stretch food - for example, I can take one small roast chicken and get 4 ‘meat and potato meals’ out it...then throw the carcas into a pot with celery,carrots, onions etc, to make broth and chicken soup - 5-6 good bowls of it. That’s 9-10 meals from one small $6.00 chicken.
Besides that, food stamps are not meant to provide 100% of your food - it’s to supplement. I know one gal who routinely has filet mignon and scallops, etc. Wish I could afford those.
Shee-it. My wife and I live comfortably on $60/wk in groceries. I do all the cooking and we eat well. NO ramen noodles at all. Now if we ate at fast food restaurants it would be a different story. 375 per month would keep us in filet mignon every night. And my wife doesn’t even like steak.
This reminds me of John Kerry when his entourage stopped at Wendy’s to mingle with the “common folk”. They ordered all kinds of “little people” food like chili, burgers and Frosty’s. Then out of sight, threw it away and ate their normal lunch of seared scallops, with vinagarette escarole on the side.
In Texas....
How many people live in the household is one of the determining factors of food stamp benefits, according to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. An individual living alone can get a maximum of $200 a month. A family of two can get $367; three, $526; four, $668; five, $793; six, $952; seven $1,052; eight $1,202. For more than eight family members, add $150 per additional person.
That is what I remember too
Did they go to the local bodega and trade in 100 dollars worth of food stamps for 80 dollars in cash? Idiot broads
Who was it that moved into Cabrini Green in Chicago? Was it Jane Byrne? She lived there for a month. Surrounded by body guards 24/7!
I hear section 8 vouchers in NYC can reach $2000 per month not including the aid they get for utilities.
Or sign her up for groupon.
Sounds like a pretty good lunch to me. Tap water? Oh, the horror, the horror!
Oh, my! I’d never heard of Jane Byrne. Talk about backfiring. Liberal stupidity coming back to bite itself on the butt! Hilarious videos. And 30 years ahead of its time!
Wow, and I thought I was doing well by feeding my family of 5 for $200 per month! Please ask your wife to sign up for the Weekly cooking thread to share some of her recipes and ideas for low cost meals. We would love to have her join us! Here is the thread from this last week:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2803056/posts
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