[wideawake]

Why does she have to feed a family of five on food stamps?

At least one of her children is 24 years old, and one is 18.

There is a 15 year old, who certainly is capable of working: I had working papers at 14 and worked off the books before that age.

Only the 13 year old and the 10 year old can reasonably be expected to get fed without earning their keep.

And she is taking 8 months out of the work force because she partied too hard in December?

Amazing.

We didn't have much growing up, but there is no way my mother would ever have taken a dime in assistance when she was capable of working.

[P-40]

At least one of her children is 24 years old, and one is 18.

And supposedly farmers have no one to pick their crops. Sounds like it is time to cut welfare.

[Vor Lady]

I agree with you in principal, but it is almost impossible for a 15 year old to get any type of paying job in Omaha (where the woman in the this article and I live). The two older ones should definetly be working though.

It obviously was a slow news day at the Weird-Herald.

[cherry]

"We didn't have much growing up"

either did we...and we had 6 kids and a grandmother that stayed with us for a few years....

we ate apples...my mom worked occassionally picking apples so that is one thing we always had....

my mom made her own pizza, which was called "hot pie" back where I come from....dough and all.....she made the sauce by mixing tomato paste with a little water and oregano and other herbs or spices...we put cheese on it but never any meat...

she canned...she made home made soup....we had a good garden and we would eat tomato or cucumber sandwiches every day for lunch during the summer....

we had meatloaf...spaghetti...rarely did we have steak...maybe never.....

$500 seems like a lot to me.....this woman has nothing to complain about....

[normy]

Maybe they are too fat to work.

[Tax-chick]

Keith, her 18-year-old, meets the cab at the 29th and Parker Streets housing project. A recent South High graduate, he baby-sits his girlfriend's child while she attends school.

Monte, the 15-year-old, is a no-show. The two oldest live in Missouri.

Oldest child is a high school graduate. He should have a job and be supporting himself. (What do you bet the "girlfriend's" child is also his?) Second child is out of the house ... in Juvenile Detention, it sounds like, as well as in Missouri.

That leaves her with herself, a 13-year-old boy, and a 10-year-old girl. And nothing to do but cook nutritious meals for them.

[MarylandMamaof5]

When you were growing up, things were alot cheaper!