NJ Mayor Booker: I'll Live on Food Stamps

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Will be interesting if he continues it past the time-frame as he suggested... It will definitely give him a much better perspective.

 

Please Corey. Living on food stamps or in the projects means nothing when you don't have to do it. Not talking money from Bain capital would have been a better look.

 

the way these mothafuckas trivialize shit is appalling

 

Very bad idea. Very disrespectful. Very unecesssary.

 

Just like Tyra Banks and her shitty fat suit

 

I don't have a problem with it.
Mayor Booker is trying to show that receiving food stamps is not enough aid to feed a disadvantaged family living in the state of NJ.

I could easily live on $35..well not easily but I could eat!lol.....in college for a week.

Lots of rice, lots of cheap processed meat and cans of tuna. But I was just one person.
Family of 4 on $35 a week?? Forget it.

 

True Aboba,the public should learn on how the other half lives and busting the stereotypes made by heartless conservatives and talk show hosts.

 

The way he's rolling this out makes it look more like a publicity stunt than a reasoned approach to showing the inadequacy of public benefits.

 

:smt017 What inadequacy? A single unemployed person gets $200 a month. That's NOT chump change. SNAP is supposed to SUPPLEMENT your food bill, not pay for all of it.

But Booker's point wasn't or isn't about that -- the point he is making is to show you can EAT HEALTHY with SNAP.

Remember, the challenge began when Booker said "if we invested in NUTRITION", to which the tweeter responded, "nutrition is not a responsibility of the government."...

Then a person interviewed said "I think [Booker] will understand that... "There's no way you could eat nutritious food."

I disagree, btw. You absolutely can.

 

200 dollars a month isn't chump change? And you can get all the nutrition a person needs on 35 dollars a week?
Ma what part of PA are you living in where 200 dollars isn't chump change? That's about a month's worth of gas and a pack of gum for me and I drive an Altima which is pretty gas efficient.
That's five bucks a day. Truthfully I don't know enough about nutrition to really give an informed response to me but I have a hard time seeing how a person could eat three times a day and get the 1200-1800 calories they need per day on 5 dollars a day. Can someone survive? Yes but actually get all they need? Doubtful.

 

My experience with urban areas is the near total absence of healthy, affordable, fresh produce. What I do see are plenty of over-priced corner stores with overpriced dry goods and toiletries and unhealthy, high salt, high fat processed food products and few fruits or vegetables. With only a couple of exceptions, farmer's markets are usually in the gentrifying parts of town, far from the public transit-dependent people who are most suffering the effects of poverty-driven chronically poor health.

I would like to make it clear this is only my experience in the cities I have lived in, so I don't claim to have a comprehensive knowledge of cities with which I'm not famliar. I don't think current benefit levels are sufficient, but obviously we will have to agree to disagree. Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Ok follow me now...$200 for FOOD. Not gas and gum. Again, it's meant to supplement your food bill not PAY for all of it. That's its acromym - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
If at the end of the day you don't have enough to eat because you're buying expensive gas, paying for car payments and car insurance, sell your car and take the bus....so you can buy more food to eat.

In fact, SNAP check what kind of car you drive. (if you own one)

 

Expensive gas? Dude regular is 4.05 a gallon here in my part of NY and it costs around 60 to fill up on regular. And that's only for my needs of going to work and school. I can't imagine if I had a wife and kids to drive around as well. Btw sometimes taking the bus will actually cost you a lot more than the bus, so while it might seem like the obvious choice to you it might hurt you more.
Supplement doesn't always mean you pay a certain amount and we'll cover the rest. For a lot of families that 200 is their entire food budget. Again I don't know where you live in PA but the tri state area around here is very expensive. After you factor in things like rent, utilities, and other expenses there very well be either very little or nothing left for food. And family of four doesn't always mean two working parents. It could mean one or none working or a single parent and three kids. So I don't know what image you have in your mind but it may be a tad bit far from reality.

 

I have a question for you -- have you even been poor?
Before I even engage you further on this, I need to know, because when I read the excuses you give me (ie: driving to work AND school, AND driving my wife and kids around"...AND having to spend $60 A WEEK in gas, AND buses are more expensive), coupled with your assertion that $200 of government assistance to eat is "chump-change"...tells me you haven't been poor and your standard of living is waaaaaaayyyy richer, which explains your current mindset.

I know it, sounds backwards doesn't it -- but I think your demand for MORE free food money for 49 million Americans stems from your current standard of living, or perhaps you eat a lot or eat a lot of take-out, or eat junk food?

 

damn just a nice way of saying





to tdk.

 

My experience with urban areas that are not gentrified is there is usually with-in walking or bus distance a SAVE-A-LOT, Thriftway, or Bottom Dollar discount type supermarket and or Dollar store in almost every section of low income neighborhoods across the country. The over-priced corner stores DO Not feed these families and it's disingenuous to say so. They are quick marts for quick things.

Additionally, there are often mobile produce trucks that park and offer fresh produce at usually a buck a bag or $2 a bag, as well as churches that provide free food and fresh produce on specific days for individuals/families who come to them.

Further SNAP offices make contractual agreements with local produce producers who set up mobile one day markets in poor areas to whom they offer an additional incentive discount to all recipients if they buy fresh fruit and vegetables from them. This is made aware to all recipients.

Add the free breakfast and lunch programs at schools - they are now considering implementing after-school DINNER for school kids...I don't see how you can even accuse our Government of offering inadequate food benefits. Happy Thanksgiving, also!

 

Sorry, I wasn't saying that at all, it was a typo -- I meant "eat out a lot", not "eat a lot", however now that I read that, that is also feasable.

(hilarious 'sugar-coat' quote in pic, btw)

 

sure sure


lol
I'm just having some fun!

 

Typo my ass