Lynda Wheeler shops with her daughter, Jaime, 2,
shortly after midnight at One Stop Food & Liquors...
(AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
Posted on 05/19/2008 9:33:01 AM PDT by yankeedame
By DON BABWIN Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO May 16, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press
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.
Lynda Wheeler shops with her daughter, Jaime, 2,
shortly after midnight at One Stop Food & Liquors...
(AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
Lynda Wheeler shops with her daughter, Jaime, 2, shortly after midnight at One Stop Food & Liquors on Chicago's South Side on May, 1, 2008. The market doors open at midnight on the first of each month for the express purpose of letting her and a dozen or so others to start shopping the instant they have access to the new month's allotment of food stamps.
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....
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“a ration adjusted just once a year, in October.”
Hang in there, sweetie. The Democrats are counting on your support in November.
Are the poor eating charcoal these days?
$7 or more a bag just for the charcoal...
“Lynda Wheeler shops with her daughter, Jaime, 2, shortly after midnight at One Stop Food & Liquors”
Shop at WalMart for food and stay away from the liquor stores; the latter is more expensive.
Get a job, Danielle. You’re an able and fit 23-yr. old.
Although I am generally opposed to government handouts, the fact that innocent children are possibly going hungry in a country such as this with its wealth and kindness does break my heart.
#1. Get a job.
#2. Keep your baby’s daddy around.
“For now, many of the needy, including many in Kladis’ store pushing carts laden with 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.”
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“Cheaper that healthier food” my assfay. Such people need to stock up on staples and learn to cook.
Ok I’m confused. The article first states she is shopping with her 2 yr old, then goes on to say she has 2 children, aged 1 and 3. which is it? and where is her other child? and who in their right mind takes their child out at MIDNIGHT?? children need their sleep.
And I agree with a previous poster, it is heartbreaking that children are suffering but the parents need to be responsible. I somehow manage to feed my family of three on less than $300 a month, I use coupons and shop for the best prices. I think food stamps encourage wastefulness as you can buy whatever you want, where when I’m spending my money, I try to save as much as possible.
“Although I am generally opposed to government handouts, the fact that innocent children are possibly going hungry in a country such as this with its wealth and kindness does break my heart.”
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The fact that innocent children are being made into bloated, malnourished, sickly tubs of lard from being fed fast food and junk food rather than nourishing fare in this country or any other that can afford to do better is what really breaks my heart.
The federal government has provided programs that make both of your options irrational.
If the woman got a job, not only would she be working, she’d stop getting her aid.
Ditto for the baby’s daddy - if he were around, no free money for momma.
Now, the only question is, did the left do this on purpose, or are they just ignorant?
“now, many of the needy, including many in Kladis’ store pushing carts laden with 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.
“The bottom line is, a mother trying to feed her kids is not really picky about what she puts in their bellies,” said Dan Gibbons, executive director of the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation. “She just wants them full.”
Kind of makes a lie out of the opening excerpt about “desperate people filling their carts with milk cereal and eggs...”
Only an extreme liberal could try to spin this stupid gluttony of using food stamps to splurge on cookies and pop into an act of “heroic desperation”
“now, many of the needy, including many in Kladis’ store pushing carts laden with 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.
“The bottom line is, a mother trying to feed her kids is not really picky about what she puts in their bellies,” said Dan Gibbons, executive director of the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation. “She just wants them full.”
Kind of makes a lie out of the opening excerpt about “desperate people filling their carts with milk cereal and eggs...”
Only an extreme liberal could try to spin this stupid gluttony of using food stamps to splurge on cookies and pop into an act of “heroic desperation”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017024/posts
WalMart may be open after midnight, but they probably won't locate in her neighborhood due to local zoning ordinances which don't like big box stores messing up the character of the hood.
Of course, Liquor stores are no problem and may even be a great place to sell or trade discounted food stamps for hooch. Ironic, isn't it?
This story was already given its 15 minutes on a previous thread.
when baby mamas use govt handouts to pay for charcoal, chips cookies and pop, the whole damn rich country can’t do a thing for those kids. If you gave them your dinner they’d probably toss it
Everyone in the country, except for very rich people with small families, is feeling the pinch. Food prices have skyrocketed.
If they really want to do something about it, the first steps are obvious:
1. End the ethanol subsidies and mandates.
2. Lower the cost of energy by permitting development in the US—refineries, nuclear power plants, offshore exploration, clean coal from clinton’s national monument in Utah, and so forth.
3. Gradual, and careful, steps to bring back manufacturing to the U.S. from overseas, together with reduction in our astronomical balance of trade deficit.
4. Control the borders and ship out the illegals.
I feel for people on foodstamps who can’t feed their kids. I also feel for people with small incomes and high taxes who can’t afford to feed their kids.
You don't expect them to cook the T-bone steaks on a gas grill do you? The flavor of mesquite just can't be beat.
An anecdote - I survived a hand-to-mouth existence as a grad. student for 2 years (especially as I could not work in non-campus jobs due to my then-visa status). When I shopped at WalMart and went to the check-out counter, I generally found that while my cart was filled with “Great Value” products (the cheapest in the store), people paying with food stamps usually went only for the most expensive/gourmet foods (most of which I consider luxuries even after getting a well-paying job).
I have no pity for this class of “poor.”
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