Food stamps

[chictrader]

Why is this crap taking up valuable space on a board that many people use for valuable information.

 

[hoodooman]

I once came home and found my son (he was about 3 at the time) eating the cat food. I asked him what the hell he was doing and he said "well the cats eat it all the time, so they must like it. I wanted to know how it tastes". I asked him.."well uhmm..how does it taste?" and he said "well, I wouldnt eat it every day..but it's ok."
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[Brandonf]

Quote from chictrader:

Why is this crap taking up valuable space on a board that many people use for valuable information.

well first of all space on a message board really has no value, anyone can create it...but the reason this particular discussion is happening would be because not everyone thinks value is the same thing, and thank god for that or we wouldnt have a market huh?

 

[1flyfisher]

spaghetti pasta noodles and spaghetti sauce, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on cheap white bread, top ramen, chunk light tuna fish, cans of pork and beans. Maybe an apple, bannana, orange.
Lots of cheap filler carbs.

 

[pismo10]

That is the result of liberal welfare, poverty and bare minimum subsistence living for all.

 

[Surdo]

Quote from mtwokay:

Taco Bell

I spent $8 to eat that crap, it's not cheap.

 

[mtwokay]

Quote from Surdo:

I spent $8 to eat that crap, it's not cheap.

lol, well several years ago when my children were in their early teens I could feed a family for 4 for $8.00 w/o drinks. Since we lived close to one we always ate at home.

Although my comment was based on dated experience, the wife and I used to joke around about how one could live off taco bell for a couple of bucks per day.

 

[DynamicHedge]

Quote from pismo10:

That is the result of ....

Maybe that's a result of throwing 44.4% of the USA Budget for the military war machine:

What kind of a civilized society allocates 44% of the taxes taken from its people to war? Only 2.5% of your taxes go to science, energy, and environment. Only 2.2% of your taxes go to education and jobs. With a population of 304 million, the U.S. spends $59 billion ($194 per person) annually on education. Saudi Arabia, with a population of 28 million, spends $33 billion ($1,179 per person) on education. You produce the results that you would expect from your investments. A full 15% of our population doesn’t have a high school diploma (20% of African Americans & 43% of Latinos) and only 27% have a college degree. How do we expect to lead the world in technology and research with these figures?

As we spend $765 billion per year on weapons, 37 million Americans live in poverty, with 46 million uninsured. There are 3 to 4 million people homeless in any given year. Military Veterans, who make up 13% of the population, account for 23% of the homeless. This is another example of government using Americans and then tossing them away like a piece of garbage. Now, with the recession deepening, tent cities of homeless are popping up across the nation. We pour billions into killing technology while American families are forced to live on the streets.

http://theburningplatform.com/economy/war-pigs---cost-of-a-global-empire-1

 

[TGregg]

Anybody that put themselves through college will tell you that yes you can feed yourself on almost 4 bucks a day. Ramon noodles (AKA "Ram It Down") are particularly affordable, currently priced at about 8 or 9 cents a serving.

I used to get a 24" sub on weekends, and that was my food for two days.

Many places in college towns have happy hour apps. Buy a beer, and get dinner for free. Sometimes a business will have free hotdogs, chips and soda.

But the real secret is coupons and triple coupon sales at grocery stores. They triple the value of your coupon. You can get some things for free. Before the stores got wise to how to do triples, you could actually get some items discounted to below free - get paid to haul them away.

You're not going to be drinking Marker's Mark while smoking Monte Cristos after a nice fillet and lobster dinner, but you can eat reasonably well on $4.

 

[Vinny1]

Besides the $4/day for food that you get, what about other things that you need, like toilet paper, cleaning products, laundry detergent, diapers, wipes, toiletries, razor blades, etc. A package of 8 Gillette sensor razors go for like $20. I assume that you can't buy non-food items with food stamps?

All I have to say is I don't know how people on welfare and food stamps do it. It really sucks to be poor. Who says money can't buy happiness. I know it can.