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sooooo he should eat processed sodium heavy canned food?? It's not like he's buying Heinekens and Marlboros with his benefits-- and he only qualifies for a certain amount. If he chooses to spend it on FOOD, what is the problem?
He's probably eating better than the people he's mooching off of. I wouldn't be surprised if he were also blogging about how the US taxpayer does not do enough for him on his $2000 iMac.
“I have $80 bucks left!” Magida said. “I’m so happy!”
“I have $12,” Mak said with a frown.
The two friends weren’t tabulating the cash in their wallets but what remained of the monthly allotment on their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program debit cards, the official new term for what are still known colloquially as food stamps.
Magida, a 30-year-old art school graduate, had been installing museum exhibits for a living until the recession caused arts funding — and her usual gigs — to dry up. She applied for food stamps last summer, and since then she’s used her $150 in monthly benefits for things like fresh produce, raw honey and fresh-squeezed juices from markets near her house in the neighborhood of Hampden, and soy meat alternatives and gourmet ice cream from a Whole Foods a few miles away.
“I’m eating better than I ever have before,” she told me. “Even with food stamps, it’s not like I’m living large, but it helps.”
Mak, 31, grew up in Westchester, graduated from the University of Chicago and toiled in publishing in New York during his 20s before moving to Baltimore last year with a meager part-time blogging job and prospects for little else. About half of his friends in Baltimore have been getting food stamps since the economy toppled, so he decided to give it a try; to his delight, he qualified for $200 a month.
“I’m sort of a foodie, and I’m not going to do the ‘living off ramen’ thing,” he said, fondly remembering a recent meal he’d prepared of roasted rabbit with butter, tarragon and sweet potatoes. “I used to think that you could only get processed food and government cheese on food stamps, but it’s great that you can get anything.”
He's probably eating better than the people he's mooching off of. I wouldn't be surprised if he were also blogging about how the US taxpayer does not do enough for him on his $2000 iMac.
Nah a true hipster wouldn't be seen on anything but the new ipad mini.
I asked a couple hipsters about this and the first one claimed that they were "Totally into food stamps way before they were cool..."
The other one claimed that food stamps were as played out as Animal Collective and "so 2011" and that everyone was moving on to this "really super awesome" soup kitchen down the street....
I asked a couple hipsters about this and the first one claimed that they were "Totally into food stamps way before they were cool..."
The other one claimed that food stamps were as played out as Animal Collective and "so 2011" and that everyone was moving on to this "really super awesome" soup kitchen down the street....
Getting government cheese and having babies out of wedlock used to be frowned upon in this country. Now its a virtue.
It was via a way cooler and newer alternative to either of those social networking sites that neither you nor I are cool enough to know about yet... Actually they decided to go all steam-punk and just answer my questions via telegraph--it's the latest in retro-cool and making a comeback.
Owning slaves and raping your wife used to be proper in this country. Now it's illegal. We seriously have gone down hill since those days!
Did the slaves rape your wife back then? Were those the original hipsters? I'll have to check wiki.
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