The second week would be easier. You wouldn’t have to buy everything on that list again the second week, like the rice, the beans, or the cereal, and maybe a couple of the other items if you were careful. That money would be freed up to buy even more stuff.
Eventually, you’d be eating comfortably, again, if you were careful.
But, that’s too much to ask of the people who get free money from us. They deserve steak and lobster, because they’re POOR, dammit!
I keep remembering, however, my mother’s tales of growing up in a coal camp in northern WV.
They ate beans and potatoes through the week, and had meat on the weekends. My grandmother would keep the potato skins, fry them up and make a sandwich with them that she’d put in my grandpa’s lunch to eat at work.
They probably spent less than $30 a week on food for the whole family of five, even in 2012 dollars.
There was no “snap” or “ebt” or whatever then. Somehow, they survived.
That's not the point. You wouldn't want the poor to actually have to have a lifestyle anything less than the middle class would you? As you put it,
that’s too much to ask of the people who get free money from us. They deserve steak and lobster, because they’re POOR,
I picked a lot of peas, beans, and berries. Pulled a LOT of weeds, too. Never dawned on me as kid that my family did it to stretch their paycheck, it was just what we (and most other local families) did.
But then again, I didn't grow up "entitled". Mom and Dad taught me to work for a living.
I picked a lot of peas, beans, and berries. Pulled a LOT of weeds, too. Never dawned on me as kid that my family did it to stretch their paycheck, it was just what we (and most other local families) did.
But then again, I didn't grow up "entitled". Mom and Dad taught me to work for a living.