Booker told The Associated Press on Thursday that he will honor the challenge he made to a Twitter follower earlier this month and try living on the monetary equivalent of food stamps for at least a week.
"December 4 to 11. Seven days," Booker said after the ribbon cutting for new loft apartments in Newark. He said he will be limited to $1.40 for each meal.
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Food stamps were never meant to pay your entire food bill for a month. They were designed as a supplement to other food you buy with your own money.
ReplyDeleteThey hand out a lot more than that around here ...
ReplyDelete"He will live on the monetary equivalent." Will he sell them also?
ReplyDeleteMaybe NJ doesn't hand out as much as MD. I am in line with regular ground beef while food stamp recepients have ground round!! Something is wrong with that picture because I work everyday and they don't. Seems like I could afford better than regular ground beef. Before food stamps, I don't remember anyone in my town starving to death. Their families took care of them. Why can't that happen today? The answer is because the government wasts to hand out free things to get voted into office.
ReplyDeleteNo sacrifice here that I see.
ReplyDeleteThis subject is really getting tired and worn out. Not to mention boring.
ReplyDeletePeople say the family and community should help those in need. Yes, I agree. But isn't that exactly what is happening? The ones that pay taxes are not family and community?
Anyway, as someone has pointed out these food stamps were meant as a supplement, not replacement, to regular food purchases.
Whatever their food choice is, whether wasteful, extravagant, or whatever, is theirs to make.
Would some of you want strangers looking in your basket and judging whether you deserve to eat whatever you chose to?
I know the reason behind the bickering. And maybe it helps to vent it. But really, we send aid to a whole lot of other countries.
People complain about that too, but that's another subject. The reason I bring it up is because people say we should feed our people first before we help those others.
Isn't food stamps a way of feeding 'ours' first?
I have only applied for food stamps once, and that was 20-30 years ago.
Guess what? I made a whole 5 dollars too much a month to qualify.
I have never applied since. But if I thought I could get some, I would in their office Monday morning.
I would gladly accept them, not as a handout but as help to my budget.
My family eats what we like and what we can afford. We even eat out on occasion, as most on here also do.
If you like what is in someone else's basket more than yours, maybe you should be friends with them. They might invite you for dinner.