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Newark Mayor Cory Booker and One of His Twitter Followers Set to Live Off Food Stamps for a Week — You’re Going to Want the Details

Nov. 19, 2012 8:20pm Jason Howerton

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left. (Credit: AP)

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, of saving a woman from a burning building fame, challenged one of his Twitter followers on Sunday to join him and “live off food stamps and feed a family for a week.” The female Twitter user, @MWadeNC, describes herself as a “Daughter of the American Revolution (DAR), fighting against any all forms of socialism/communism.”

Interestingly, it was a famous quote by ancient Greek historian Plutarch that ultimately led to the wildly popular mayor’s decision to live off food stamps for a week.

“‘An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics’ Plutarch ancient Greek historian (c. 46 – 120 CE),” Booker tweeted on Sunday.

That led to this exchange:

(Twitter)

Should Booker’s offer be officially accepted, the University of Bridgeport, which is holding the “UB SNAP Food Challenge” next month, will possibly “referee” the food stamp challenge during the first week of December.

(Twitter)

Booker on Monday confirmed via his official Twitter account that he fully intends to live off food stamps for a week if his challenge is “truly accepted.”

(H/T: NY Mag)

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grayling646
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:07pm
That headline is just another reason why Gutfeld is always making fun of TheBlaze.

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- love the kids
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:19pm
  Notice that the conversation here is about raising the amount that food stamps should be, nothing about Govt. getting out of the way of job creators so folks can find a job and not be dependent on Govt. Also, food stamps are supposed to be a PART of your food budget, not the entire amount. You will see obesse people on food stamps all the time.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:59pm
  Oh this is just great now it is so bad Corey has to be on food stamps who’s next.
  
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- Wisdom7
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:31am
  “Also, food stamps are supposed to be a PART of your food budget, not the entire amount.”
  
  Correct. You really cannot live on the amount of food stamps given, unless it is just for a week.
  
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- phillycornerboy
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:06am
  this is nothing new. politicians have done the same thing since the creation of food stamps. i can recall 4or5 such attempts. it always ends the same. an appeal to increase food stamp allotments. the claim of “shared responsiblity” is telling. is this not communism? when am i or society responsible for someone elses children? help, yes. assist, if need be, but responsible? NO. it’s a false premise to lure you in to the communist mind-set. this technique is nothing new except, to those ignorant of history. recent history at that. so much for a “liberal” education.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:17am
  I believe the first tweet was it wasn’t he government’s job to determine nutrition. How is that about raising the amount of food stamps? And it’s not a fair accessment. People who scam to get food stamps, still have money for booze and drugs, so they have under the table incomes. They still get their older children to get paid for watching the younger ones, etc. I know a woman, and I’ve mentioned her before. 4 kids, all have obamaphones, food stamps, SSDI, rent subsidies, oldest daughter out of the house, second oldest is a son that has a job (graduated a couple years ago), next daughter is in college, so not living at home, youngest is in 8th grade. I don’t know what the cut off is for needing a baby sitter, but I’ll lay you odds if she can get it, she has her 19-20 year old son watch the 13 year old for money from the government, and I’ll bet she watches her son’s illigimate daughter for money.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:31am
  These “challenges” are a bunch of crap. Who can’t do something for a week knowing that a few days later your manufactured “hardship” is over and done. A productive society is how people get away from poverty…..enough of this “fair” b.s.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:01pm
  Returning to his roots.
  
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TrUe.AmEriCaN
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:05pm
Is Newark Mayor Cory Booker Gay, because he sure acts the part?

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TrUe.AmEriCaN
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:55pm
Newark Mayor Cory Booker grew up a poor black man, he already knows all about foodstamps and how to use them. Plus those boys from the ghetto they get real down to earth back alley and street corner training………………..He knows how to game the system !

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SituationalGravity
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:45pm
How about trying one-week running a small business? Waking in the morning and working. Then coming home at night; perform marketing and finances. On Saturday mop up the loose ends. At the same time perform household chores and get in a little exercise. Get rest. Moderate alcohol use and and avoid marijuana.

In the real world we do this week after week.

How many government subsidized people have this type of work ethic; for even one week?

Hence America’s decline into debt (Hades).

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- Josiah13
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:51pm
  AMEN to this brother…I worked harder today than anyone Booker’s ever known and I’ll wake up and do it again tomorrow. Run a business, do every job necessary….plug every hole, worry about every dime, plan for future competitiveness….aaahh! Wife’s mad…I work too much, but got be preoccupied cause if not I’ll lose my edge. I can count on no one…nothing between me and failure but me. The family I hired and the family I sired both need me to be “on it” always. @#%$ that was a good quote….I MADE THAT UP!
  
  Progressives got no idea…they think govts make jobs. They also think businesses exist to make jobs…HA HA. My business exists to feed my family and entertain me….when it ceases to do either…it’ll disappear and the jobs with it. If someone wants a job from me they need to make my life easier and show me I can’t exist without them…when they do…they’ll have a GREAT job as long as they want it!
  
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- Leader1776
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:22am
  @SituationalGravity
  You may just have the comment of the year. Yours could have been used throughout the campaign as well. Hat tip to you, sir/madame.
  
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TexOkie
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:38pm
“‘An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics’ Plutarch ancient Greek historian (c. 46 – 120 CE),”

True, but it requires the skill of a demagague to force one group against the other using the imbalance as the wedge.

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- SituationalGravity
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:54pm
  A steep imbalance between the rich and the poor has always been the consequence of the Government colluding with Private Sector . The government picks winner and losers via regulation. Where this hasn’t been evident is when the Central Authority runs everything.
  
  Accelerated Spending/GDP has always been the demise all of human States. Eventually the natural resources cannot support the spending. Debt and war is the final answer.
  
  The New Democratic Party is either massively ignorant to Natural Law (science and stuff), or they are thieves. Without deficit spending they couldn’t support their initiatives.
  
  The American Ideal is unique; it requires the government to spend within it means. The American Ideal has been bastardized. Too bad the Founders didn’t write a balanced budget amendment.
  
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SituationalGravity
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:38pm
It’s akin to free money for him. In the cost analysis; this is a bonus. Always gaming the system.

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- savagenatn
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:03am
  the creep must be hungry for shrimp and lobster…with food stamps he’ll be able to eat it 3 meals a day every stinking day …maybe throw in a little caviar for variety
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:32pm
They will cheat. Tell them to eat nothing but Ramen Noodles and The Cheapest Hot Dog Weenies they can find.Then try to sell cans,scrap metal,do yard work, and sell off belongings to pay Car Insurance,Then the $200 Plus Fees when It Lapses,Tags,House Payments,Water Bills,Energy Bills,Gas,Toilet Paper,Tooth Paste,Soap,Shampoo,Aspirin,Antacids,Pay on a loan…..Alll while the fridge gives out and it is August.

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- HotFixIt
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:30pm
  Now you are on to something.. just cashed in my IRA to pay insurance… don’t know what I will do next but I still refuse to go to the government for assistance.
  
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denkat56
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:23pm
Food stamps, try MRE,s for a week and then brag.

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- marine249
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:15pm
  or old ww1 & wwll C-RATIONS as we did in the 50′s and 60;s
  
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- Government_Goodies
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:28am
  @marine249 “C-RATIONS”
  
  Man, you didn’t have to get ugly.
  
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- stablepar
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:46pm
  i wonder if uncle sam has any more c rations stashed away. ham and mother ******* any one? food stamp recipients would be crying up a storm if they were offered our viet nam staple. semper fi
  
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skeptic123
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:16pm
Feeding a family on food stamps would be ridiculously easy if they restricted their purchases to the same things that working poor families do: less expensive cuts of meat, eggs, fruits and vegetables, flour, sugar, spices,etc. It’s when you start buying expensive meats, frozen dinners, cookies, cereals, candy, chips, and other processed foods that the bill may get too high. A simple food budget would work wonders for these folks, and they wouldn’t have any difficult in feeding themselves on the food stamp allowance.

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- Roozter
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:29pm
  So true! The underlying problem being that we supply the food without appropriate education to use it wisely.
  
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- TH777
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:38pm
  I agree with you! I have a job and support myself. I can’t afford fruits, vegetables or any type of meat. I mostly live on 25 cent soup or anything else that is cheap enough to fill the hunger and I’m still able to get up and go back to work each morning. I’ve seen people on food stamps in front of me at the store register with all “brand” name products, fruits, vegetables, chicken, meat, etc. Trust me, they eat better than most people on an extremely tight budget.
  
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- grumpyt
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:49pm
  How about this, Lower TAXES enough that mom could stay home if she chooses. Go back to having kitchen gardens. Put HOME EC back as a course in HS.
  
  My challenge is for you to go to a grocery store, any grocery store and watch for those using “EBT” cards and/or “WIC” and see what they are buying. No one buys real food, only boxes and cans. Oh yea, and crab legs and steak just to make you angry.
  
  This is where the real “recession/depression” is. This is where the bread lines/soup lines are. Hidden behind the EBT cards. We can’t shame them for spending our $$$ because it looks like they are using a debit/credit card.
  
  We’ve lost and if you don’t believe it, watch the Will Cain video from CNN. It is a sad day but the Takers have won.
  
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- JQCitizen
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:51pm
  Boy, don’t get me started on this! I know someone who has rotating sugar daddy’s in their life; then they use their kids to get food stamps, and buy only organic everything. Plus, having their food needs covered frees up their paycheck for manicures, new clothes, and a night-life!
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:08pm
  Yaw must be talking California Food Stamps or Ohio Food Stamps. Where I am from,food Stamps do not get you Jack Sh$%t.Try eating 3 meals a day at $1 a meal per person. Toss in a kid or two.
  
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- sligresda
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:35pm
  @th777, really? you cant afford fruit? bananas are 24 cents a pound at target….always. apples are in season in the fall and cheap as can be…same for pears. in summer aldi’s sells strawberries for a buck a pound…at the very least you could stock up and freeze them for use in winter. i absolutely cannot stand when people say junk food is cheaper…no its not, learn to cook from scratch.
  
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- Wisdom7
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:37am
  Sorry but you’re wrong. Listen to Smokey. They are only meant to “help out” not support you fully. The idea that people are getting hundreds per month in food stamps is false unless they have 5-6 kids.
  
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- Southernguy
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:11am
  @ WISDOM7……….Trust me, I see this crap at least twice a week at Wal Mart and other grocery stores. These ****** have the system figured out, and they ARE buying for 5-10 kids…just NOT their own. I’ve spoken to women that told me how they SCAM the system, by claiming someone else’s children. The cuts of meat, they purchase, AINT the cheap cuts!! I’ve seen grocery carts full and “rounded” over at the top with MEATS that I would die for. I’ve been behind these women and seen first hand, their totals of $200-400 for this stuff. And then brag that they have hundreds left to spend, for the next week. PS: I’m from south Mississippi, and these idiots have it all figured out. Hell, I couldn’t even get on food stamps when I was unemployed for over TWO YEARS!!! I’m sick of these “bottom feeders” and something has got to change.
  
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pamela kay
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:12pm
Could we get all of the other entitlements that usually go with food stamps too for that week?

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Amazingoly
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:10pm
OK fine and dandy. Now let him give up his big salary for two or three months and live on welfare. What a joke he is.

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barber2
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:10pm
The Roman Emperors bought the public off with bread and circuses ( sorry to the Christians who became part of the entertainment ) . Our Democrats buy votes with “stuff ” – much of which is NOT necessary , but ” wanted ” due to the ” entitlement ” expectations that the Democrats have instilled in the public in order to get their votes . Remember free public education K- 12 ? Now ?

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:28pm
  Can only squeek-by on 1-2 small meals a day? O B A M A F O N E is your answer! Live-in the same cardboard box for years? The O B A M A F O N E is your answer!Oh, by-duh-way…VOTE FOR US(D)!!
  
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IdahoBlaze
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:09pm
A WEEK? He can’t be serious. Sure, you get a full months’ worth of food stamps and spend ‘em in a week, sure you can eat. No biggie. Spread that out over a month, baby, and see how far YOU get!

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HappyStretchedThin
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:06pm
Love that Plutarch quote.
Problem is, liberals mistake this SYMPTOM for a CAUSE.
Inequality happens when GOVT limits freedom. When free people are allowed to use their own property to benefit their own interests, prosperity results, there are fewer poor in the first place, and for those that remain, there’s a higher standard of living and more disposable income for people to give away to take care of them.
Capitalism is and always has redistributed wealth much more efficiently than any state “solution” because it’s done freely, and based on the merits of the goods and services in exchange, rather then on the political benefit an outside party perceives.

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- socialism.rocks
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:30pm
  An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
  Plutarch
  
  the only remembered roman emperors..were the ones who limited wealth – “socialists”
  
  ceasar was assinated for one reason he limited land-ownership to the plutocrats
  
  i just cant wait for what comes next during empire the crucifixtion of anti-tax nut jobs
  
  its coming
  
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longknifed
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:04pm
Blacks will always vote Democrat. No amount of genuflection will change that. If Obama wore a white hood, they would still vote themselves a free raise each election.

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- FiscalConserv
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:14pm
  I have black friends and black coworkers who are Republicans.
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:28pm
  They may say they are, but all that matters is what their ballot says, which I HIGHLY doubt they would vote against OBAMA.
  
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- FiscalConserv
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:38pm
  I can only stick with facts. I can’t argue against your opinions of people you’ve never even met.
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:19pm
  It’s not a popular position to take, but I’m a realist. sorry, but I don’t believe you. But then again, its not like it matters.
  
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- marine249
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:27pm
  @FISCALCONSERV
  
  Yes and I bet you don’t have to take your
  shoes off to count them.
  
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- TreeTrimmerJim
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:50pm
  Black Americans, like so many of us, are the victims of a public education.
  
  Black Americans are taught so little about their history they are vulnerable deception and schemes as are any with a poor education. Ignorance leading to poverty caused JFK to start the New Frontier Program for 4 counties in Kentucky. Within a few years that program changed names snared black Americans in increasing numbers into poverty. Today the War on Poverty is lording over more folks in poverty by a significant number than when it got its name in 1964.
  
  Every effort control wages since the 1930s has failed. With each round of changes the effect is to raise the unemployment level. Black American’s employment has been increasingly and disproportionally adversely effected with each round wage control fixes.
  
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benshivd
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:00pm
endthemindlessspending , If you had half a damn clue SMH. SOME as in VERY FEW. dumbasses. Shop like that. I can guarantee you. If you have a family with kids this IS not the case. Their ELECTRONIC EBT card has both their food stamps AND cash assistance on it. Most registers split the difference between taxables and non taxables. Other than that it acts exactly like a debit card anyone else would have. Granted alot of people are not the brightest managers of money. I can assure you MOST on aid are stretching that aid well beyond what most people can fathom possible. With such a meager allowance.

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WereWatchingGOP
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:59pm
What a crock. I know how the food stamp program works. I knew a single mother with 2 children (16, 8) who got $512 a month in ‘food stamps’ back in 2010! Their cupboards and refrigerators (they needed 2!) were overflowing. Mayor Booker is full of it. The amount that people get (at least where I live) is more than enough to live on. Besides, are food stamps supposed to cover all a family’s nutritional needs, or to be a supplement? For the non-disabled, I think we know that answer to that. More Democrat distortion.

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- Wisdom7
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:59am
  Yeah so call your local social services office and ask them how much you would get. You knew a person isn’t exactly factual. I can guarantee she did not receive $512 a month for 3 people. I think you are distorting the truth a tad.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:58pm
Let me assure you that food stamps today cover things they were NEVER meant to cover originally ~~~ steak, lobster, fine cheeses, ice creams, wonderful prepackaged frozen meals (yes, they ALL have refis and freezers), expensive pickles, olives, dressings~~~ things I couldn’t afford to buy when in graduate school and having to use my own REAL money to buy groceries for my husband and me. It used to hack me off to be counting our pennies and these big fat mamas even way back then would waltz through the lines with grocery carts filled with things we couldn’t buy. I hated the abuse then, and I hate it now. That has been almost fifty years ago.

I’d rather see the mayor eating like a regular working person and not dressed in $1,000+ suits. I’d be more impressed.

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- Tractorboy
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:55am
  Grams your’re right, It is amazing how the progressives have taken, what God has taught us to do for the poor, the widows, and orphans, and bastardized it in a way to ruin these people, it is still our job to love them, as God loves them, for they have been conditioned in a way, they know not what they are doing, in a biblical sense, in a secular sense they know full well of their selfish grab whatever you can, you and I know it’s the devils handy work on display here…….we on the other hand are commanded when opportunity arises to show them a better way,(in a kind and gentle way) to share the gospel and what scripture teaches, and that God made each of us for a purpose, each, with our own abilities and talents, and that there is a better life, we have much to do. God bless
  
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geminimoon
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:57pm
While recovering from an injury, I was unable to work and had zero income. With little choice I applied for food stamps and was given a card with $200.00. I told the case worker that I thought that would be more than enough to tide me over for the next 2 or 3 months, then she said I would be getting that each month!!!
I am a divorced male that lives on my own and thought it was an outrageous sum of money for food each month! Especially since I raised my son on my own with no support or assistance and my weekly food bill, including packed school lunches five days a week, was between $75.00 & $80.00 A WEEK!

2 weeks later guilt had overcome me and I asked to be taken off food stamps. Today at nearly 50 years old I just under went a triple-bypass and am unemployed and find myself in a situation where I could really benefit from them but I am told I am not eligible with no reason given.

Yet I know of kids in their 20′s that don’t work or go to school and still get food stamps and live in government housing. Sure wish I knew how they are scamming the system…

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- Wisdom7
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:57am
  If your weekly food bill is $80 then that’s $320 a month. How is $200 a month more than $320?
  
  By the way, I raised 2 kids as a single father on my own. At one point I had to apply for assistance myself while I was between jobs.
  
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normalmom
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:43pm
Food stamps is based on how much you make and how big you family is. One of the things about food stamps is you don’t pay taxes on what you buy.

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- toiletclogga
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:59pm
  Give me $30/wk, $120/mo, and I’ll feed a family of four. I will not purchase prepared foods, and a good amount of the food will be starchy such as potatoes, rice and pasta. I make close to $100k a year, and I cook my own grub. I can afford to eat steaks, and other choice cuts of meat, but I do not believe it is worth the $8/$9 a lb. for it. Instead, I opt for pork and chicken on the bone. Learn how to season your food, and you’ll never get tired of the food you cook.
  
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Artlife
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:40pm
I read a story by some moron in NYC who decided to live off welfare or something for a week. First thing she does is go to a deli and buy $6 a pound cold cuts for lunch and then starts whining how are they going to make it through the week. Then there are the stupid ketchup soup commercials. Anyone who would make soup out of ketchup when you can buy a darn can of soup for 25 cents in a thrift store is beyond me. They need to go back to teaching home ec in school and teach these idiots the basics of daily life since apparently they know nothing.

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- Darla_K
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:52pm
  Let me know where they sell 25 cent cans of soup. lol What a deal….
  
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- FiscalConserv
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:10pm
  Seriously, 25 cent cans of soup?! We’re talking 2012, not 1970, right? Let me know where to shop for those prices.
  
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- Government_Goodies
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:31am
  I think I MAY have gotten a can of soup for 25 cents after it was already on special and I had coupons on top of that. It’s not unusual (to be loved by anyone…sorry) to see soup for $1.10 – $1.35 a can for just regular old chicken soup.
  
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TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:38pm
Nope, I will not want the details. Can’t waste time on losers like Booker or his little buddy.

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Inlightofthings
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:34pm
What an idiotic idea. If you’re going to play the game play it right Booker. Use as much of the 81 programs available to the “disadvantaged” and demonstrate how you can rise well above poverty level with little effort.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:40pm
  Maybe he plans on blowing the one month alotment in one week he could eat like a king.
  
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HotFixIt
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:31pm
It depends… you don’t have to buy the basic staples every week… salt, flour.. general basics… if you actually COOK instead of buying prepared foods it may be possible… I don’t know… been living on my savings for the past two years. Refuse to apply for government assistance.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:37pm
  You are correct foodstamps are dished out monthly not weekly so one week is no test.
  
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- endthemindlessspending
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:41pm
  Funny how many on food stamps seem to be buying the name brand prepared foods, and buy top of the line steaks. I know this because a friend of mine manages the check-out of a supermarket. They can get cash back after their order and proceed to buy cigarets or alcohol. I respect you very much for what you’re doing. Self reliance is a dying art with people anymore.
  
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- HotFixIt
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:51pm
  Well, I have learned that potato flakes make a can of soup go a lot further! I also have learned that steel cut oats are worth the difference! You eat a lot less and don’t get hungry later… those $3 dried bags of soup can make several meals with potato flakes and extra spices…. occasionally making my own bread which is much denser. I also use a pressure cooker to make stew or a big pot of beans. A big pot will last several days. It is amazing how little one can live on when you have to!
  
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The-Monk
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:25pm
How are they going to get food stamps (SNAP) when they don’t qualify?

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- Tri-ox
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:30pm
  Apparently, race is the qualifying factor.
  
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- Darla_K
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:55pm
  Actually, Obama has ads on Mexican tv telling the people how to apply for our food stamps here. So I have heard. I don’t recognize our country anymore.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:01pm
  @monk You can’t be that stupid.
  @tri-ox Apparently, you can be that racist.
  
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- HappyStretchedThin
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:01pm
  @Monk,
  Of course the answer is that they get different rules for themselves. That’s how all liberals operate. They refuse to live in the world their own rules create, in general.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:18pm
  Hi HappyStretchedThin,
  
  Good to see you posting tonight. : )
  
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