11-29-2008, 05:02 PM
Gutenberg wrote:
Dakota, I absolutely defy you to feed yourself on the monthly food stamp allotment. Clean out your kitchen and start with nothing, and feed yourself for a month on $162. Go right ahead and try it.
You all are talking like poverty is fun and a free ticket. It is most decidedly not. It is humiliating and exhausting. Most people on welfare have a disability. Some have screwed up. Most of us have the luxury of screwing up and not landing on the street, and one of the ways we can thank our merciful God for that is to treat these people better.
I have never been on the soup kitchen line but I have worked the other side a couple of times, and a few years ago I did stories on people trying to subsist on what our society begrudgingly allows them. It opened my eyes. Don't judge these people till you have met them.
Nice, but your missing the point. When you were checking the facts on your stories. Did you happen to see what was the per cent of people using the benefit? Does the community food shelf do a better job providing this service?