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Posted on 04/26/2007 11:36:03 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Oregon Gov. Theodore Kulongoski called a gaggle of his closest friends to a photo op Tuesday that few could pass up. As part of his "Food Stamp Challenge" week, the governor is attempting to live on a food budget of $21 per week, which is about the average benefit for an Oregon food stamp recipient, according to the governor's press release.
Associated Press photos showed the governor pushing a shopping cart and ostentatiously relinquishing a noodle cup and two bananas at the checkout counter when his total topped $21. "Could you feed yourself for $3 a day?" demanded headline in the next morning's Oregonian.
Let us stipulate that in a country as wealthy as ours, the idea that anyone should go hungry is unacceptable.
But is that what's really happening? Why is it that whenever you listen to a Democrat you feel that the year is 1966? They seem to live in a time warp in which no progress has been made on race relations, poverty, childhood malnutrition, and on and on.
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A shameless PR display. I hope Oregon’s governorship is term limited.
I wouldn’t be on food stamps.
I once was between jobs for four months.
I did several temporary jobs until the next
full time job.
That’s that.
Here in CA I have stood in a grocery line behind someone who paid, with food stamps, for food that I couldn’t afford to buy. I stopped in a c-store and watched someone pay for cigs and wine with food stamps......I still regret not having the balls to turn them in. But next time I will, cuz I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.
A pound of chicken legs is about a buck. Ten pounds of rice is about $3. That’s good for about a month. A pound of bananas is maybe $0.40, depending on the season. A pound of cabbage is about $0.60. For that $3 a day, you can have a pound of chicken a day, a pound of bananas, a pound of cabbage and all the rice you can stomach. The real problem with people on food stamps is that they’re lazy - they don’t want to cook. Or learn to cook. Speaking of which - the one useful class they ought to make compulsory in school is cooking. That way, if you learn nothing else, you can still eat like a king after graduation without having to go out to a restaurant.
I think you could live on food stamps but the paper and glue wouldn`t taste so good.
What if they live in a squalid room without a kitchen?
That’s creeping into north korean lifetstyle.
Yes. The question is, do you really want to?
The concept of ‘food stamps’ is very outdated. Now, they’ll give you a debit card that’ll only ring up food items.
It doesn’t take a lot to get them usually. I don’t think there’s very much background checks, and in fact I bet anyone could get a lot of free groceries by just signing up.
However, I nearly had to be on them, and no ramen, cabbage, and chicken waste isn’t much of a diet. If anything, it’ll drain people away and they won’t be actively looking.
Thankfully I recovered before I had to get on the ‘stamps’.
How true, the poor here in America don't have the advantages of you Europeans.
I ate well for 2 years with a 2 burner hotplate that was 30 years old at the time, a fairly new two slice toaster over (which I am still using a quarter of a century later) a frying pan and two sauce pans and a 2.1 cubic foot refrigerator. I washed the pots and pans (and vegetables) in the bathroom sink.
If you don't have at least that setup, you should probably be tracking down soup kitchens rather than worrying about food stamps.
Good point.
Is this some sort of ‘poorest’ contest? I bet you also walked uphill to school each ways in 5 feet of snow.
Instead of a pity party, we’re trying to discuss the pro’s and con’s of food stamps.
That is mostly in France with the squalid rooms and no kitchens for the African immigrants.
Not really the case in Germany. The immigrants are mostly Turks and Italians - both of whom have a pretty good work ethic. The high unemployment is mostly among the East Germans who were taught to be very lazy in their workers’ paradise for 40 years.
No. Eating like a North Korean would include eating grass clippings marinated in hot sauce and tree bark. In North Korea, they would probably be eating the food stamps rather than using them to get something else.
Nothing about poor in my comment. I said I was eating well. I just didn't have access to a kitchen. And it was a direct response to a post that raised that question.
Would I want to have to live on a food stamp budget? No, but I could if I had to.
Well, there seems to be a general disdain for anyone that may need food stamp help. As if, they aren’t up to standards if they can’t eat tree bark, rice, and turkey necks and survive.
Sometimes a lot of people need unemployment, disability, and gasp, food support to get back on their feet.
This is boring.
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