Here in Jersey it’s about $200 per person. Easily doable if you shop carefully. Even $30 a week is doable if you eat lots of dried beans, brown rice, and frozen veggies.
The farmers at the local farmers market are saying that the “new food stamp users” are budgeting in a way that the traditional users don’t do.
Besides that doesn’t Booker realize that the S in SNAP stands for supplemental? While it is debatable whether the government should be providing any food assistance, even the Socialist fools who created SNAP did not intend for it to cover an individual’s entire food budget.
Besides that doesn’t Booker realize that the S in SNAP stands for supplemental? While it is debatable whether the government should be providing any food assistance, even the Socialist fools who created SNAP did not intend for it to cover an individual’s entire food budget.
In the 90’s my husband was in seminary. I fed a family of five (two of which were teenagers) on $35 a week and we got no government assistance at all. We ate oatmeal for breakfast everyday and beans and tortillas for lunch and dinner, everyday. It can be done, but only by people who are focused on taking care of themselves and not bilking their neighbors.
I bet I have beat the $30 a week figure many, many times without even trying, just by being frugal. Most of the world considers that $30 a week for food is living high on the hog!
It is crazy to complain that what most of the world looks at as luxury, is somehow unjust.
In addition, many, if not most, of the people receiving food stamps also get a bunch of other taxpayer funded freebies. I imagine their kids get 3 meals a day at school and during the summer, they get subsidized housing and utilities, and “free” medical care. They even get free cell phones!
Boortz was talking about some woman waiting in line to get help with her utilities. While waiting, she was eating a salad with hard boiled eggs and watching the latest movies on her portable DVD player. As Stossel has demonstrated, the poor in the US are rich by the rest of the world’s standards.