Lawmakers Find $21 a Week Doesn't Buy a Lot of Groceries

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kevin, kevin, kevin...

not everyone on food stamps has no job/has 18 kids/lives in the ghetto/is mooching off the system.

a lot of elderly people get food stamps. should they be allotted only a "minimum"? i worked as a teller for 2 years, and there were elderly getting social security checks for 500 bucks a month...you tell me where in the US you can live off of that! people who are laid off of very well paying jobs find themselves on them for a while. hell, i got laid off from Capital One (one of about 250 employees), had zero income, 800 dollar rent, and a car note, a child, and my unemployment was under a thousand a month. and guess what? i didnt qualify. not everyone can just up and find a job that pays more, or sometimes find a job at all. had i recieved them, (and only because of my child did i even go there...) i would have used them until a new job came along. i would have used them for what they were meant to do!

its not the people, its the system. it needs to be monitored more. i'm sorry, but there needs to be a system that handles things, like having a time limit for being on it, and maybe other programs that give out the actual food, not just the means to go get whatever you want...the ones who need it cant get it, the ones who dont need it, have it.