Snap Challenge is Not So Challenging - Unless You're an Out of Touch Congressman | FreedomWorks
This past week more than two dozen Democratic members of congress decided to compete in theSNAP Challenge and in their words “call attention to the necessity of the program” while also showing how difficult it is to eat on the average of $31.50 per person, per week allocated under the SNAP program.
I read the article in Politico and looked at the receipts posted and could not stop thinking that these people either don’t know how to live on a budget or that they were intentionally trying to make it look overly difficult to budget and eat healthy. Maybe it’s both.
I was struck by the ignorance in the statements from some members participating in the challenge. Rep. Ted Deutch from Florida said,
“Standing in line at the grocery store, it’s relatively few items in my cart, and calculating how much I think they’ll cost only to learn that I was off by a little bit, which necessitated putting back a couple of items and leaving with even less — it’s just really difficult to do once, I can only imagine how excruciatingly difficult it must be to that every single week.”
What? You had to calculate how much you had before you spent it and you may not get everything you want? This is news? Isn’t this what the majority of Americans do when they’re buying groceries? They figure out how much they have to spend and then they live within that budget. I would love to stock my cart with lobster, ice cream and choice bacon, but I can’t afford it, so I don’t. Is this congressman so out of touch with reality that he doesn’t realize that families, unlike the government don’t spend money first and figure a way to pay for it later? Probably.
Don’t even get me started on Rep. Donald Payne who spent $1.08 for a single hard boiled egg. Yes, one egg. At the grocery store in my town you can buy an entire dozen eggs for $1.13, and for one person that’s a lot of meals.
First, let’s not forget that the SNAP program stands for “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.” Supplemental. It was never intended to be the only source of food for an individual or family, it was intended to keep people from starving. The Democrats want you to believe that people can’t possibly live on less, therefor you need to increase the amount given to the program. They don’t want you to know about the waste, fraud and abuse occuring, just that shopping is really, really, hard.
Maybe instead of wasting time on publicity stunts like the SNAP Challenge, members of Congress should spend time with housewives and moms who know how to make a budget stretch. Our family of four eats very well (follow me on twitter and instagram if you don’t believe me) on less than $300 a month, or in SNAP terms, $17.50 per week, per person. Our average weekly grocery bill is $70. If we were living solely on the supplemental program of SNAP we would add nearly $204 a month to our budget!
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Kristina Ribali from Freedomworks is a bad-ass.
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brimmed hat hid his face
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a twinkle in the left eye
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politics and law
of curious lore
and times before
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cloaked in grey
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IT JUST HURTS A FUCKLOAD A LOT MORE WHEN ITS COMING FROM PEOPLE YOU TRUST
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i just randomly expressed an opinion to one of my friends and now they think i’m one of “those people”.
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See the thing about being an evil villain is that instead of letting your inner demons fester and weaken you, you can control them and ride your majestic, winged beasts of terror into battle against your enemies
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From the IDW Transformers comic. The difference in what Optimus and Megatron think Megatron’s victory will look like.
Amazingly it isn’t the “bad guy” who pictures himself on a throne of skulls. To be fair though it’s a pretty awesome chair. It just isn’t exactly what Megatron has in mind.
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