Compassionate Conservatism At Work Cuts To Food Assistance

[nascar55]

From the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus Ohio today. "less to eat"....:freak: http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/03/20/20060320-B1-01.html

[acmejack]

1. "Let them eat cake"

And always remember, history indicates Marie was actually misquoted...

[China_cat]

2. Average of $65/mo in food stamps

$65 per MONTH.

Where's our intrepid reporter telling how his wife checks out people with $1800 in food stamps? I wish some of these people had to live on $65/mo for food.

[jmowreader]

3. When food stamps were actual STAMPS, you could do that

I saw a guy walking around the store the other day wearing a t-shirt bearing a picture of a food stamp and the text, "Remember the days of Throw Back Money?"

Food stamps were a second currency in the urban community. You could get "the fruits of the local land" with them. I asked this guy about his shirt, and he said that in his neighborhood you could get "anything you wanted" with food stamps--"pussy, weed, smokes, booze...you could play poker with food stamps, shoot crap with them...motherfuckers pay their rent with food stamps, handymen do work for food stamps...I'm a plumber, I got paid a LOT of food stamps back then...man, you could even buy a car with food stamps."

Think of them as the Barter Coupons some cities have, but with the added benefit that they were usable outside the bartering community.

So naturally I asked what happened when the government went to EBT. "They announced it before they did it, so everyone went to the grocery store and unloaded their stamps buying canned goods and staples. I'm still eating on that stuff."

Now everything's Electronic Benefit Transfer and you can't spend more than is in your account. But yeah, it is conceivable that someone could walk into a supermarket with two bills' worth of food stamps.

[China_cat]

4. This guy was trying to say it was last month

It was bullshit.