Posted on 11/02/2013 6:10:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Don’t forget a bag of chicken leg/thigh quarters, flour and eggs. A few veggies and some rice or roll out some dumplings(egg noodles) and you can eat good! I can feed my dogs on cooked food cheaper than canned/bagged food.
Your post makes no sense, but whatever! If we’re going to whine - let’s whine about something that can change the course of history - food stamps just doesn’t cut it.
Key is you don’t live on four fifty a day... you take what you are given monthly and buy food to cook meals that extend the value of the four fifty a day. I use to buy eleven dollars groceries a week in the late seventies.... and I would feed myself and several freeloaders who would show up at dinnertime because they knew I could cook and had food.
There is nothing we can do about it? We just give in and up?! I can vote and I can be involved on the state level. There are many things I can do to change things-- slow change maybe-- but helpless...uh, no.
and I’ll be danged if I’m going to try and tell others how to live, what they should eat, where they should live or what they should wear
If the government is taking money from one tax paying family to hand out to another non- taxpaying family, there is every right for the taxpayer to have an opinion and have a say so in how that person spends that money. They don't like it--don't get on the dole.
- by doing that I might as well become a lib.
You're wrong. You're WAY off base here.
We talk so much about the utopia the left believes in, but we on the other side - also have our ideas of what utopia is - it isn’t a perfect world with perfect people in it
You're right, it isn't a perfect world. I am not looking for Utopia. If I believed in Utopia I would adopt every dog out there but I can't and it breaks my heart. I can only afford to properly care for and tend 4 dogs at the very most. That is called reality.Sadly, I have two spots open, I'm not quite ready to look yet but if it happens upon me...well.
You are also correct, it isn't a perfect world. It is a downright nasty world. A world of entitled feeling people who think they are slighted if they can't have exactly or more than what you have--even if they don't work a minute for it.
How dare you sell the food stamp program short. Food stamps WILL change the course of history. If enough people become dependent on the producers, mankind can achieve pure economic bliss that will usher in Utopia.
The left did something about same-sex marriage laws. The expansion of same-sex marriage shows that no political change is impossible to make. Since that one would’ve been impossible to change 20 years ago. It also shows that if conservatives don’t try to change things, the left will gladly do the job for you.
I want to quit...I want to give in... but I won’t. There is too much on the line. On down that line the future of my children and their children and yours. All that is in the balance. We have a responsibility no matter how much I feel beaten down.
Levin says it best. (loosely) The liberals spent 100 years doing this, we can at least spend 12?20? years trying to turn it around. It isn’t going to happen in hours, days, months or even and election. No instant gratification.
It is going to be a long, hard uphill battle that will take time but it can be done. God and our founders will be our frame in navigating hell and people like Levin will be our Captains and Generals.
I’m reading comments and you are sniping and bitching all around it. Bad night? It happens. Otherwise— why stay here unless you like to bitch, whine, moan and complain? Seriously...
Let’s shop from a list like: eggs ($0.15 each), a pound of pasta ($1.00 to feed four), a can of tomato sauce ($1.00 to feed four), generic 14 ounce “cheerios” ($2.00), generic oatmeal ($0.07 per serving), gallon of milk ($3.25), store special fruit at $1.00 a pound for apples, far less for bananas, a little more for peaches or pears even in season, head of lettuce for $0.99, carrots at $2.00 for three pounds, etc.
Without bottled drinks, brands with cute commercials, and prepared foods, it’s easy to stay under the $4.50 per person daily budget. We include meat instead of just eggs and go over $4.50, but not by much.
LOL
Which is exactly what happens and I end buying more stuff than I intended.
Try having less babies than you can afford.
Close your legs ladies.
No way, no how. You served, you got hurt, you deserve to be compensated. Simple as that.
Someone needs to pull their head out of a warm dark place...
Hmmm - the writer is assuming that, instead of being a SUPPLEMENT, it is designed to be a complete menu-filler. That's the kind of thought process that put us where we are today.
buy a vacuum packer...
shop at sams club..
20# of chicken breast at 1.89 a pound (about 24 breasts)..
whole sirloin at 28.00, you get 3 steaks 2 roasts and 3 pounds of stew or stir fry meat...
whole pork tenderloin at 15.00, you get 2 crock pot roasts and 16 thick sliced chops...
ten pounds of hamburger at 2.00 per pound, you get 10, 1 pound packages..
whole eye of round for 15.00, you get 8 steaks and a roast..
meat for a month for 2 people for a total cost of $116.00
none of this is considered to be garbage meat either..
buy some rice and mashed potato flakes, large bags of frozen veggies and separate and vaccum pack, and for less than 200.00 you and your spouse can eat like kings..
of course, you have to spend several hours cutting and vacuum packing (in other words you have to WORK to do it)...
Is that Chinese hot sauce?
Yep. And it is delicious!
How much for ammo to bring in dinner? How much for tools to grow your own produce? How much would it be if you included the value of a "living wage" for your own labor to collect and prepare food for yourself? Are you one of those nasty, mean-spirited conservatives who thinks the welfare class should have to lift a finger to help themselves?
$4.50 a day? Isn’t that EACH????
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