Cory Booker to live off food stamps?

[acri1]

Depends on what you're eating.

If I had to live off a few dollars a day I'd probably make do with Ramen Noodles and Tuna...not fine cuisine but I'd be able to buy enough not to be hungry. You can usually get Ramen noodles like 5/$1.00 and cans of Tuna for like 60 or 70 cent. So about five bowls of Ramen Noodles and a few cans of tuna a day would be enough fat, protein, and carbs to live off of and not be hungry.

It would definitely suck though.

 

[daze23]

I know I can't live on 200$ a month and I only eat once or twice a day.

you could do it, but you'd probably have to be straight up ramen, cheap hot-dog, $1 pizza status

 

[88m3]

Depends on what you're eating.

If I had to live off a few dollars a day I'd probably make do with Ramen Noodles and Tuna...not fine cuisine but I'd be able to buy enough not to be hungry. You can usually get Ramen noodles like 5/$1.00 and cans of Tuna for like 60 or 70 cent. So about five bowls of Ramen Noodles and a few cans of tuna a day would be enough fat, protein, and carbs to live off of and not be hungry.

It would definitely suck though.

If you're going to eat like youre in prison you might as well be.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

if i actually lived on foodstamps, i'd be insulted by this stunt. i understand he's trying to make a point about the difficulty of subsisting on such low means, but the struggle of poverty is real, and one week of political theater doesn't compare to what the poor deal with every day.

Yeah, he says its about solidarity....but when its for a week? it just seems like some caveat to put on an election resume. Call me a skeptic but i think it's ill-conceived.

 

[daze23]

I remember Dukakis took the subway (T) to work everyday

 

[Swirv]

If he buys beans and rice hes good

 

[PartyHeart]

I don't think it needs to be longer than a week. If he has a real plan of action to improve the institution in Newark already (and I assume he must have some idea its broken and needs fixing, or else he wouldn't be doing this), he could be doing it to justify the improvements he hopes to implement.

 

[Whatsgood86]

For what it matters --- You get 387 a month for a mother with child in Colorado.

 

[88m3]

$600 seems high...you must be good out there.

I'm getting by I'm lucky I don't have children

 

[theworldismine13]

And as far as dude who said food stamps are supposed to supplement your food costs...some only have that to spend. It's really out there for some.

If its really out there then its due to irresponsibility or its bigger problems that can't be solved by more food stamps, the food stamp program is working the way it's suppose to work

This whole notion that you can throw money to people that are "out there" is the road to hell

 

[theworldismine13]

For what it matters --- You get 387 a month for a mother with child in Colorado.

Plus WIC

I don't have a problem with wic or food stamps but this is why i dont like liberalism, people start acting like food stamps are a form of economic development and that black people are going to die or something

 

[daze23]

Plus WIC

I don't have a problem with wic or food stamps but this is why i dont like liberalism, people start acting like food stamps are a form of economic development and that black people are going to die or something

seems rather hyperbolic to refer to that as "liberalism"

 

[CACtain Planet]

:belbetray: I can tell some of you dont cook. I can survive off $15 - $20 a week in any city...rice, beans, noodles, beef, leg quarters, jugs of water, cooking oil, etc.. all of that is affordable on a $20 a week budget in any city

 

[theworldismine13]

seems rather hyperbolic to refer to that as "liberalism"

foods stamps are definitely liberalism, what label would you put on it?

But again, I don't have a problem with food stamps, food stamps are one government program that actually works but i dont agree with equating it with economic development or that there is some crisis that will be solved by increasing the amount people get

 

[Liquid]

:belbetray: I can tell some of you dont cook. I can survive off $15 - $20 a week in any city...rice, beans, noodles, beef, leg quarters, jugs of water, cooking oil, etc.. all of that is affordable on a $20 a week budget in any city

What city do you live in? I have a hard time seeing many people live off $20 a week in New York. Enlighten me breh.

I can do $20 out here in lexington, but I think it would go up at least $35 a week in NY at the very least.