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

[UGAalum94]

I didn't even read the whole thread, so I apologize in advance:

What is the income threshold to qualify for food stamps? I guess I'm lucky that I never had to find out.

Isn't it a bit unrealistic to think that a person on food stamps would have no other income to be spent on food? I mean, I know you're not going to be rich and be on food stamps, but are all 26 million people trying to live on the food stamps alone?

$21 a week plus 25 to 50 dollars more you earned would still required a lot of planning, but it wouldn't be quite what living on only the stamps would do you.

Are the bottom ten or twelve percent of income earners in the US (which is what I'm figuring the 26 million is out of the 300 million of us total) people who have no income at all?

I think poor people may need more money for food, particularly for healthy food; I'm not really prepared to dispute that. But is what these congressional yahoos are doing really representative of what people on food stamps face? Wouldn't the real situation of surviving on X income total with $21 dollars in food stamps be bad enough without these self aggrandizing jerks pretending to face the same conditions?