Posted on 05/16/2008 1:19:15 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago
Danielle Brown stands outside a South Side market at midnight, braving the spring chill for her first chance to buy groceries since her food stamps ran out nearly two weeks ago.
For days, Brown said, she has been turning cans of "whatever we got in the cabinet" into breakfast, lunch and dinner for her children, ages 1 and 3.
"Ain't got no food left, the kids are probably hungry," said Brown, a 23-year-old single mother who relies heavily on her $312 monthly allotment of food stamps — a ration adjusted just once a year, in October.
This is what the skyrocketing cost of food looks like at street level: Poor people whose food stamps don't buy as much as they once did rushing into a store in the dead of night, filling shopping carts with cereal, eggs and milk so their kids can wake up on the first day of the month to a decent meal.
"People with incomes below the poverty threshold are in dire straits because not only are food prices increasing but the food stamps they are receiving have not increased," said Dr. John Cook, an associate professor at Boston University's medical school who has studied the food stamp program, particularly how it affects children.
On the South Side of Chicago, people like Brown wait for the stroke of midnight, when one month gives way to another and brings a new allotment of food stamps.
Dennis Kladis began opening his family owned One Stop Food & Liquors once a month at midnight nine months ago to give desperate families a chance to buy food as soon as possible.
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Maybe if she sold her son’s iPod....
$312.00 a month...she should be on her knees thanking God for such a generous society.
They may have to start spending their beer, cigarette and lottery ticket money on food.
It’s true, food prices have gone up. Two years ago I was spending $75 dollars a week, now we’re up to almost $150.
Plus I spent $100 at the gas station yesterday and only got 27 gallons of gas...That’s just over half a tank.
It’s getting ridiculous.
Well, something more that we’re supposed to be liberal and sympathetic about. I’m sure it can be blamed on George W. Bush and McCain. They aren’t sensitive enough to the poor, I’m sure.
Comment: This is the same district of Reverend Wright, Reverend Jackson, Messiah Obama, Father Pfleger, William Ayres and the rest of the Karl Marx brigade who, after 40 years since the civil rights era, are shown to have failed miserably in bringing relief to the south side underclass.
Ramen noodles!
That’s just the food stamp alotment.
The way the leftists portray the rich and the poor in this country is criminal.
They DON’T include all the subsidies that “the poor” receive in the form of cash, rent subsidies, utility subsidies, EITC, and food stamps in “the poor”’s income stats,
and they also neglect to subtract taxes from “the rich”’s income stats.
This person on welfare, bitching about $315 a month to feed herself - a 23 year old “single mother” and two infants!!!!!
CLEARLY, all her food stamps are NOT going for food — or she is making equally poor decisions in her shopping as she has in her personal life.
Frankly — I fear we are simply getting more of what we subsidize...
We feed the irresponsible and their bastard offspring..and we get more.
This seems to have become a “career decision” for some folks.....
She’s got a child that is 1 year old. She should still have a good handle on the whereabouts of “daddy.” Maybe HE could help out with feeding HIS kids.
The poor are entitled to steaks and lobsters for their foodstamps.
Well, they’re entitled AT LEAST to already prepared foods, so they won’t have to prepare them themselves.
I have zero sympathy.
She obviously doesn’t know how to spend her money.
Example, for about 30 dollars she can buy a month’s worth of bread, milk and eggs.
That leaves her with 280. If she buys junk like chips and ice cream well yes, she will run out of money.
Ramen Noodles lady!
$312 a month to feed herself and two babies and she doesn’t have enough? I feed myself for less than half that, and I ain’t exactly frugal.
>>soda pop, bags of cookies and chips — much of it cheaper than healthier food — are doing what they can to stretch their shrinking buying power.
Say what?
How could this NOT be true? It's just a simple matter of economic incentives.
I know, it's "heartless" to say we shouldn't subsidize poor decisions, but WTH do they think is going to happen when there is no "downside" to making poor decisions?
Considering that the government would subsidize her day care for the kids, maybe if she doesn’t want to worry about food stamps running out, she should do what the rest of us do to put food on the table.
It’s called a J-O-B.
Maybe she shouldn’t be having babies she can’t afford to feed
Well, I’d comment, but it would probably be yanked from this thread... :-0
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