Comments | indigodove: Good Article

indigodove

Good Article

Aug 28, 2006 18:39

Here is an excellent article on the reality of living on food stamps.

http://citypaper.net/articles/2006-08-10/cb.shtml

Comments 5

magentamom August 29 2006, 06:25:40 UTC

What? Next that liberal media will be telling me that people don't just choose to be poor and collect welfare because it's easier than working! Clearly it's better than paying taxes, right?

amyura August 29 2006, 15:49:18 UTC

Oh, come on! Didn't you get the message? (I forget who the messenger was, but Thomas Frank quotes him a lot in his book.) Rich and poor are complete choices, like where you sit in the high school cafeteria. And we all know how easy it is for a nerd to change his mind and decide to sit with the jocks.

amyura August 29 2006, 15:52:21 UTC

Wow. I'm going to try this. I think with the diet I eat it'll either be much easier or much harder-- I do whole, organic, minimally-processed foods.

Great article. It's so easy to forget how hard it is.

mg4h August 29 2006, 22:30:58 UTC

When I was a poor college student, I actually got food stamps for a while. I was that poor.

I remember a lot of ramen, spaghettios, cheap pasta'n'sauce, and whatever fruits or veggies were on sale. Oh, and rice. Lots of rice.

Meat was what I got when someone had leftover food on campus, or I broke down and splurged on Chinese. Mmmm, ribs.

It sucked. Lots.

And yes, it's very possible to subsist on really cheap food, but it's annoying, repetitive and bad for you :(

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