>>>One recipient, Jennifer Donald, a 31-year-old mother of three in Philadelphia, said she counts on the family’s $460 monthly benefit to put food on the table. Her husband has a job sanitizing machines at meat-packing plants but it doesn’t pay enough. She’ll have to reduce the quality of the food she buys to stretch the benefits, then turn to food pantries once the money runs out.
“I was mad and devastated and a little bit confused because we need our benefits,” Donald said in an interview at her row house, where she was preparing ground-beef tacos, a family favorite, while her 10-year-old daughter and two sons, 6 and 4, played and did homework. “This is the way we eat right now. Live a day in our life before you can cut our benefits.”<<<
Maybe you should consider GETTING A JOB like all the taxpayers you are leeching off of.
If you offered her a job, you would have to fight her she would be so mad. The good part for those of her ilk, that sooner, probably sooner, or later, their gravy train is going to be derailed. Then her and her ilk will be in for a world of hurt. They won’t make it.
To be fair, if she got a job it would probably pay less than $10/hr. Take out taxes, transportation, the value of her time at home (cooking, cleaning, repairs). Consider that the work she does at home frees up her husband’s time. Take out child care if she works the same shift as her husband. Consider the strain on their marriage if she works a different shift.
A low-earning married woman with young children and an employed husband is almost certainly better off staying home, even without taxpayer-provided benefits. Providing daycare, unlicensed, paid under the table, would be a smart move for her and I hope she is - but telling the AP would not be a smart move.
Funny how illegal aliens can appear name, city, photo, in a story about the tribulations of the undocumented and the government doesn’t touch them, but let a citizen say she’s getting paid under the table so as to make ends meet - the IRS has ears.
she counts on the family’s $460 monthly benefit to put food on the table
Mrs WBill and I shop very carefully. We hit the sales, clip coupons, use leftovers, and so on. Restaurant eating is cut out very nearly completely, as is pre-prepared food (think, frozen pizzas, etc etc). We did this because we needed to, on our budget.
$460/month is far more than my family spends on food. It's about the same as my monthly "household budget" - food and assorted other requirements like soap, TP, laundry detergent, etc etc etc.
If I had $460 to spend on food alone, Steak and seafood would be back on the table a lot more often. Eating out probably would be in the budget, as well.
I'm the one who's picking up the tab for this ungrateful leech, and I'm scraping to get by on less than what she's given. Color me unsympathetic.