To: My Favorite Headache
Breakfast: $1 at McDonalds.
Lunch: $1 at Burger King (Whopper Jr).
Dinner: $1 with careful shopping at WalMart.
Upshot: anyone can get by with decent meals by recycling 60 soda cans per day ($0.05 each) or working 25 minutes at minimum wage. Few indeed cannot earn $3/day in this country.
Methinks the “hunger problem” has been solved.
41 posted on
12/10/2009 8:00:29 AM PST by
ctdonath2
(It from fit.)
To: ctdonath2
“...recycling 60 soda cans per day ($0.05 each)...”
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I must have missed something.
Can you really get a nickel for a single soda can these days?
53 posted on
12/10/2009 8:13:06 AM PST by
EyeGuy
To: ctdonath2
Excellent, resourceful, common-sense post by the way.....
55 posted on
12/10/2009 8:13:53 AM PST by
EyeGuy
To: ctdonath2
Good post.
BTW, the food stamp bureaucracy assumes that a person needs 5 bucks/day.
59 posted on
12/10/2009 8:20:58 AM PST by
freespirited
(People talk about "too big to fail." Our government is too big to succeed. --Chris Chocola)
To: ctdonath2
Upshot: anyone can get by with decent meals by recycling 60 soda cans per day ($0.05 each) or working 25 minutes at minimum wage. Few indeed cannot earn $3/day in this country.
I like your thinking here. Absolutely agree, people willing to work will have no hunger problem in this nation. What's sad is that our system also allows people unwilling to work to eat. Once in a while a debate comes along FR about why people on welfare / WIC / etc... are fat. It's always a good read. It is possible to eat well for very little. Not bashing McDonald's either.
96 posted on
12/11/2009 6:25:31 AM PST by
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