Groceries on $21 dollars a week


A few members of Congress try it, but will they learn the right lesson?
Interesting experiment.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) stood before the refrigerated section of the Safeway on Capitol Hill yesterday and looked longingly at the eggs.

At $1.29 for a half-dozen, he couldn't afford them.

Ryan and three other members of Congress have pledged to live for one week on $21 worth of food, the amount the average food stamp recipient receives in federal assistance. That's $3 a day or $1 a meal. They started yesterday.

This article is actually a couple of days old, so they started on Tuesday.

What I really want to address here is not how little $21 dollars a week is, but why some in Congress assume that the only practical long term solution is to give the welfare recipients more money.

Why do we need to preserve dependency?

People can barely starve on $21 dollars a week. Okay, what can we do to get jobs to those people that pay considerably more than $21 dollars a week?

One choice puts the less fortunate at the mercy of the government and politicos. The other gives them a chance to better themselves.

Which is true compassion?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sat - May 19, 2007 at 05:01 AM  Tag


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