Comments on: More on Food Stamps

By: JoSe

JoSe — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:19:10 +0000

( Correction ) Not expect the tax payers to support his family.

By: JoSe

JoSe — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:17:39 +0000

A woman should marry a man that would be proud to support a family and not expect the tax payers to his family. This is something most men don’t care to do, so they marry obese women ( no one ) else wants and live like a King using our tax money.

By: What Do You Spend on Food?: A Grocery Budget Experiment

What Do You Spend on Food?: A Grocery Budget Experiment — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:58:57 +0000

[...] a month. Look at the comments on my post about my food stamp experience and my follow-up post on food stamps to see some of the differing [...]

By: FugalGal

FugalGal — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:12:55 +0000

Before you pass judgment on the lady with the baby; has anyone seen the cost of a small can of formula? Similac Neosure Powder – 12.9 oz can – $16.49 X 9 = $164.90. My grandson (9 months old) goes thru 10 of those a month ($16.49 X 10 = $164.90)!! So $280 in food stamps leaves you with? $115. So, if he also eats baby food, roughly 3 times a day, you will need to add an average of $2-$3 per day to that, given that a jar of baby food costs about $0.75 …. you do the math!!

By: Andy Hough

Andy Hough — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:01:23 +0000

Gumby- Thanks for the comments. Interesting video.

By: Gumby

Gumby — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:09:02 +0000

I never use clothes dryer because I can hang my washed clothes to dry indoor… take advantage of the warm air indoors to dry them… Get as many hooks and hangers for hanging washed clothes to dry… you can hang several clothes line across your room as well. you can hand wash your clothes in your bath tub.. wash cycles are exaggarated .. you dont need to spend too much time handwashing your clothes… A few shakes and a rinse will do it!! then twist and hang up to dry indoors. you will save money and time making trips to the laundromat!

By: Gumby

Gumby — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:00:51 +0000

I refuse to be cheap on my daily diet. I enjoy feasting on fun food , etc.. I chose instead to cut down on my utility bill, water bill, gasoline expenses, and the likes to finance my usual daily fun feasting ! There is many things that poor or homeless dudes can do to keep warm, clean, and happy fed .. it is no fun skimping on grocery shopping… It sucks!! check out my website to get yourselves an idea of how I cut back my utility bill. It works… Homeless dudes can set them up on the streets as a display for all people to see and say “Gee, why didint I think of that myself, duh? ” All you need is aluminium foil, exterior Elmer’s glue, a few boards and you will be warm as long as the sun shines..

By: CC

CC — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:00:35 +0000

THANK YOU DELORES, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!! My thing is why is it so bad for someone to be in need? To want help with feeding themselves and their children? What may be easy for one person to do, may not be for another person to do. I myself have a BA degree and plan on going to get my MBA but because of the economy and being in overcrowded GA, I do not work. I grew up very well and wanted for nothing, yet for the first time as a single parent of a growing 10yr old I do need assistance and do get foodstamps. I felt ashamed at first but hey times are hard and I need it and haven’t always depended on it. I’ve always worked fulltime and went to school fulltime. I do agree that if someone gives you a set amount of money to spend on food you must use it wisely and make the most out of it. Yet I do understand it’s hard to when you have a child and no job or other income. You have to consider there is myself and a growing young man in the home. He alone eats about 4 or 5 times everyday of the week (breakfast,lunch,snack,dinner,snack) and then I eat as well. For just him alone that about 1050 times a month. yes food does go out very fast and yes you do have to go to the store more than once a month so it’s understandable some mother’s with children can’t make it on $200 or less a month. At first I was getting on $150 a month in benefits, I made it work the best I could and it did help out yet before the end of the month I still had to go back to the store again and come out the pocket for more food. I am fortunate to have loved ones in my life to help with lil money here and there but some people don’t. So when she runs out of food and has no more stamps left, what does she do?? Alot of you on here sound like a married (maybe older) couple with no kids in the house, this is a big difference from a single mom with a growing child or children. Also everyone eats differently and has different lifestyles. I do agree that if you only have so much to spend you shouldn’t be buying steaks, bottled water, etc. but buy what is needed most. I also agree that if you can avoid being on assistance then do so by all means. I know people who need the assistance but cant get it and then those you lie to get it and can afford to buy groceries….JUST PLAIN WRONG!!! But for those that don’t agree with government assistance and think less of people who need it then maybe one day when something unfortunate happens in your life or one of your loved ones lives and you need it, will you then understand and see how it feels. We are in America, we have programs and government money meant for this very thing….TO HELP OUR PEOPLE!!! Instead of spending billions to bail out huge companies and other things, why cant money go towards low-income families, communities, those facing forclosures, the homeless, shelters, schools, etc??? So please stop complaining and judging when you don’t know what a person may be going through. We are all different and handle things differently. It is not hurting you (yea you pay taxes but dont we all at some point? yet when you pay taxes the governmtent takes it, police forces and government and ferderal agencies take it and use it for their own benefits, why not want your taxes to go to someone who needs it instead?) so why stress what another person’s downfalls, stresses, or finances may be??!!!

By: Melanie Simms

Melanie Simms — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:48:31 +0000

Has anyone noticed? Why dont they speak out against it? The food at these distribution sites are OUTDATED and have lost alot of their nutritional value… how can they pass that out and say they’re “helping” the poor and hungry??????

By: Delores

Delores — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:19:15 +0000

People who use food stamps are usually people who have exausted all other means of buying food. I know this because I have worked since I was 14 and never thought about not working. MY tax dollars have helped other people so I have no problems accepting help when I need it. I worked at AT&T for 10 Years and when we trained people from Ga. I thought we were helping them so they could ALSO have a job. Wrong!! We were training them so that our Managers could down size and close our Plant. Thanks A lot AT&T.
Now we have all of us struggled to get good jobs and actually just keep getting jobs that keep down sizing, laying off,closing doors because all of our American Jobs are being OUTSOURCED. So of
course you’ll see more of us American Middle Class become Low Income and using food stamps.
If the United States would penalize large corporations for OUT Sourcing good jobs would we be in a recession? Also. If we moved to those countries would we be treated as well as the people who flock to the United States? I know those other countries would not treat you to there peoples jobs and give you cart blanc for housing and Food Stamps. Try to get on a list for low income housing here the list is forever and until your children grow up, let some one come from another country they will move to the Front of the list. I want other people to live well but why is it that Americans have to give Blood,Sweat and Tears for that to happen for every one else and when one American Sees another American using Food Stamps they have a problem? Why? Aren’t we after all the ones who pay the taxes that take care of every one else?