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I don't know of any families of at least three (are you counting yourself in that number? You, your husband, and a child? Or just you and two children?) who can live on $280 per month for food.
The person never answered whether or not he/she received the $280 as an individual or a family. However, I would say that even cooking your own meals you could not eat steaks, rib roasts, $10 pies, expensive olive oils, etc., etc., for $280 per month.
Share with us what types of foods you could buy that would sustain you as an individual on $280 per month for an entire month.
They can easily put their money where their mouth is...
The SNAP Challenge encourages participants to experience what life is like for millions of low-income Americans living on the average daily allowance of only $4.80...
If welfare no longer existed for you would you sit there and do nothing?
If I were past retirement age, and could not get a job, what else could I do?
Fortunately, our country is populated with a lot of highly evolved folks who understand and support the reality that we all have a social responsibility to our fellow citizens. Thank god we are not all barbarians.
So when I get past retirement age, and if SS is not there for me, and I can't afford food, I'll tell you then what I might do.
What's the matter, petch? You can't effectively argue the public health risks of having a very large portion of the population almost starving and then the results of an antibiotic-resistant disease growing from that population into your own "sterilized" world?
The percentage of the population who receives welfare benefits has been increasing all along.
Most who receive benefits are working poor. Used to be that many low skilled workers could seek employment in factories and make enough to raise a family on the lower rungs of middle class.
Even during the prosperous 50's, 25% of the population lived in dire poverty.
Global competition and technology permanently eliminated serious millions of these jobs.
15% of manufacturing jobs were eliminated between 2000-2010 due to technology.
The real irony is that those states with the highest percentage of poverty tend to vote Republican. The state, not the fed, operate welfare programs including fraud detection and prevention.
Please keep the facts of the issue out of this thread.
This thread is about stereotyping the poor as lazy, shiftless, moronic, liberals who receive handouts from hard working, honest, christian, patriotic, right wing, conservatives.
They can easily put their money where their mouth is...
The SNAP Challenge encourages participants to experience what life is like for millions of low-income Americans living on the average daily allowance of only $4.80...
Conservatives give more to charity than liberals do and are more likely to volunteer. Sorry. Try again.
And this is what a lot of the these mooches working the system buy with the "assistance" they are given. God knows they don't want to put forth the effort to actually make/cook something.
??? when I received food stamps, I was cooking with a single hot plate. What exactly can you make with that?
You? You're on food stamps?
If you aren't, believe me, I couldn't care less what you buy and eat.
I know about drug resistant germs...a big contribution to their evolution is the overuse of antibiotics and the helicopter moms that won't let their precious little kiddies play in the mud and super disinfect everything with Lysol, etc.
Better eating habits isn't going to stop a 'super bug' from causing a lot of grief if it gets out of hand.
Stop obsessing over it unless being paranoid is what turns you on
And seriously, even though the junk food does fill half the carts being checked out, the concern is even more with the "healthy" food mommy is feeding them.
Boxes of macaroni and cheese, frozen chicken fingers, TV dinners with a teaspoonful of peas or corn, Spaghettios...on and on. Tons of salt and corn syrup and a tiny bit of food with any nutritional value, if any.
You earlier made some reference to what I eat, therefore, the response.
So YOU think that an antibiotic-resistant disease would NOT spread rapidly in a low income, poor area of society, even if it got started in a hospital? And what makes you think it wouldn't get started in a low income area where people are almost starving. The FACT is those germs are out there and they are going to get worse. WHY feed the fire by creating a population living in substandard, far-below poverty line areas, with little to no food? You think you'll teach them to be "responsible" and to "make better food choices" by depriving them of food, and the effect of that decision won't affect you ever? Silly, wishful thinking on your part. Burying your head in the sand. Talking about FACTS is not paranoia.
They can easily put their money where their mouth is...
The SNAP Challenge encourages participants to experience what life is like for millions of low-income Americans living on the average daily allowance of only $4.80...
If that is a program that taught somebody how to eat...and eat well...on that budget, I'd do it since I only exceed that amount now by choice. We've not been able to go out much so I've been splurging often on things like $18 a lb scallops, poterhouse and more expensive vegetables like asparagus.
When not doing so, spending about $300 a month for two is no problem.
If you are a good cook,
armed with only a pan, a knife, and a cutting board,
you can easily ace the challenge.
Prove it, and tell us what you eat each day.
And at the end of the challenge (with no cheating) tell us that you're not hungry.
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