http://www.salon.com/2014/01/19/what_i_learned_from_a_week_on_food_stamps_paul_ryan_couldnt_be_any_more_wrong/
It was then that I spun around to see a tall man in his mid- to late 30s leading a baby-bearing stroller into what it was now clear to me was an apartment building.“I think I have the wrong address,” I stammered.“Sometimes people…” the English dad started to say before trailing off. Recalibrating, he got to the point: “The welfare center is West 14th Street.”I felt the blood rush to my face; I could no longer meet his eyes. I mumbled something quick about being on assignment, then thanked him before scurrying across Fifth Avenue.What I didn’t explain to that English dad was that, as part of the story I was writing, I had decided to experience for myself what it’s like to survive on money from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistant Program (SNAP), better known to most as “food stamps.”To apply, one must go to one of 16 food-stamp centers for an application and interview. I wondered how many of the 1.8 million people in the city who are on SNAP — including a full third of Brooklynites — felt as sheepish as I did at being pegged needing what that dad had called “welfare.”It has been 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson — the architect of the modern food stamp — set out to “conquer poverty” in America. Some, like Rep. Paul Ryan, are ready to declare the “War on Poverty” a failure, and gut funding for things like food stamps.What their objections ignore, however, is that SNAP is vitally important to 47 million Americans — one sixth of our country, from rural plains to swelling cities. And the program works.
he rails against 1.3 million having a higher ins. premium which provides better care than the were getting before, which was not what it was suppose to be as far as what you get for the money, and the uncertainty as to whether you will be dropped, cost go up bankruptcy. this wa va cause because the couldrail against ObamaCares.
now 47 million in SNAP with children, elderly and sick are relegated to the right wing tough luck bin.
can't you see these false crusades are not the one's that help they are the one's that really don't matter and are not as much if any hardship on the country then a starving baby?
It was then that I spun around to see a tall man in his mid- to late 30s leading a baby-bearing stroller into what it was now clear to me was an apartment building.“I think I have the wrong address,” I stammered.“Sometimes people…” the English dad started to say before trailing off. Recalibrating, he got to the point: “The welfare center is West 14th Street.”I felt the blood rush to my face; I could no longer meet his eyes. I mumbled something quick about being on assignment, then thanked him before scurrying across Fifth Avenue.What I didn’t explain to that English dad was that, as part of the story I was writing, I had decided to experience for myself what it’s like to survive on money from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistant Program (SNAP), better known to most as “food stamps.”To apply, one must go to one of 16 food-stamp centers for an application and interview. I wondered how many of the 1.8 million people in the city who are on SNAP — including a full third of Brooklynites — felt as sheepish as I did at being pegged needing what that dad had called “welfare.”It has been 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson — the architect of the modern food stamp — set out to “conquer poverty” in America. Some, like Rep. Paul Ryan, are ready to declare the “War on Poverty” a failure, and gut funding for things like food stamps.What their objections ignore, however, is that SNAP is vitally important to 47 million Americans — one sixth of our country, from rural plains to swelling cities. And the program works.
he rails against 1.3 million having a higher ins. premium which provides better care than the were getting before, which was not what it was suppose to be as far as what you get for the money, and the uncertainty as to whether you will be dropped, cost go up bankruptcy. this wa va cause because the couldrail against ObamaCares.
now 47 million in SNAP with children, elderly and sick are relegated to the right wing tough luck bin.
can't you see these false crusades are not the one's that help they are the one's that really don't matter and are not as much if any hardship on the country then a starving baby?
