Food Stamp Cuts: Families Will Face Tough Choices

[Fractals 'R Us]

There is a retirement place that I know a bit about. The chef teaches culinary arts at a city college, he knows what he's doing. They cook for about 150 people and their budget is $4 per person per day. The food is great really. I'm not saying it's the greatest by a long way but it's nutritious and the variety is there to satisfy every person's nutritional needs.

I wonder what is the number of diners that gets the market efficiency to be at that level? It could be a lot less than 150, maybe just 50 or so? If Americans could learn to get along together they could live in units of 50 or maybe just come together for meals at that level and eat healthy on a low budget. As the economy keeps getting progressively worse maybe kitchen-clubs where people pay by the month will come into vogue?

I had a dream of starting up communities where people camped, lived in their cars and rv's and had all the basics. They could live on a few hundred bucks a month and have nutrition and entertainment enough to keep their sanity and their lives going..

 

[bullmarket79]

How can a nation worth $74.8 trillion have poor people? How can a nation that has the Green River Shale oil worth $60 trillion have poor people. Bi partisan legislation keeps the Green River shut down, although you often hear the repukelicans say America should be run like a corporation, well, where is our dividends bitchez? The Green River is worth $200k pr citizen. These two parties we got now are not good managers of our resources, toss the bums out,bill

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from LEAPup:

Agreed! People like piezoe are the worst enemy America has.

Liberalism and all who support it... are a greater enemy than we ever faced in any war.

I'm from the same school as my grandfather... "You don't deserve ANYTHING except what you earn for yourself." And to him/me, that included resources to afford to EAT!

In America we're not going to let people starve or freeze to death. But "social support" should fairly be limited to "3-squares and a cot". If you want better than that in your life, GET A FARKIN' JOB! (Cleaning toilets qualifies as "job".... I know. My first job was as a janitor.) Nobody, no country needs parasites. America does not benefit from having more and more of them, especially when they are subsidized more and more.

 

[piezoe]

Quote from Max E. Pad:

I grew up on raman noodles and kd, who the fuck decided that its inhumane to live mostly off beans and rice?

It was a huge motivator for me when i got to go out for a burger, not even a fancy ass meal. Who the fuck are you and the rest of the liberals to say people who dont work hard enough deserve something better than they can afford?

Whats wrong with having to clean toilets for a living in order to eat?

You, piezoe, and your liberal dickhead buddies are one of the most destructive forces in america today.

Your comments speak for themselves. That's really all I need to know. Thank you.

 

[Spike Trader]

So why do you people ridicule those in the construction and air-con business ?

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from jficquette:

Maybe now they can only have one cart filled with steaks, roasts, processed foods, cookies etc and of course powerade.

Bummer... having to settle for NY Strip instead of Filet. Taxpayers should be ashamed.

 

[Max E.]

Quote from piezoe:

Your comments speak for themselves. That's really all I need to know. Thank you.

As do yours.

You think it is beneath people to clean toilets to put food on the table and that people should be handed food instead.

My first job was working as a McMonkey, flipping burgers and cleaning toilets for 5 bucks an hour, i was able to live, and in 6 months i got a job in a real kitchen for 10 bucks an hour plus tip out.

People like you who think that cleaning toilets in order to eat is somehow beneath a person are exactly the kinds of big government ass hats who are creating a society of whiners who are dependent on the government in order to survive.

 

[gwb-trading]

Quote from bullmarket79:

How can a nation worth $74.8 trillion have poor people? How can a nation that has the Green River Shale oil worth $60 trillion have poor people. Bi partisan legislation keeps the Green River shut down, although you often hear the repukelicans say America should be run like a corporation, well, where is our dividends bitchez? The Green River is worth $200k pr citizen. These two parties we got now are not good managers of our resources, toss the bums out,bill

It is because of the same reason that communism does not work in practice - people are lazy and/or greedy.

For nearly 20% of the population even if you give them everything they need to live a middle class lifestyle - they will waste it on drugs, alcohol, etc. and never better themselves, and remain poor.

Being poor is a problem with personal responsibility, not with our country. The U.S. provides Section 8 housing, food, welfare, heating assistance, Medicaid, and many other programs to poor people - so they can live in comfort. It is the responsibility of the individual to take the next step and become a productive employed citizen.

 

[LEAPup]

Quote from Spike Trader:

So why do you people ridicule those in the construction and air-con business ?

No where in this thread has anyone in those businesses been ridiculed. I would be glad to ridicule liberal lunatics like you, however, for destroying MY country.

 

[Max E.]

Quote from gwb-trading:



Being poor is a problem with personal responsibility, not with our country. The U.S. provides Section 8 housing, food, welfare, heating assistance, Medicaid, and many other programs to poor people - so they can live in comfort. It is the responsibility of the individual to take the next step and become a productive employed citizen.

Its funny cause liberals like to look at poor people as victims of circumstance, but i have yet to meet a poor person who ran a tight budget, had a plan to better themselves, and was willing to work hard and delay gratification in order to achieve future success.

Bottom line, ive never met someone in America who was permanently poor who was actually willing to put in the necessary effort in order to better themselves.