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| One idiot comment on the WSJ said "Look! They are using food stamps to buy gourmet pizza." |
This picture is from the article. The comment noted in the caption is accurate. It was supported by a number of comments about the proverbial "buying booze and driving away in a Cadillac". They don't take food stamps for pizzas unless they are in the frozen food section and if you want to eat one that costs under $4.00 - well go poison yourself.
Just to be clear on this subject, milk is $4.00 a gallon. A decent loaf of bread is $3.00+. Peanut butter is about the same as is non-sugar loaded jam. The projected cost of feeding an elderly person a decent diet (as described by the Agriculture and HHS departments is about $9.50 a day.
The food stamp benefit is a little over $4.00 a day.
I thought I would comment on the WSJ article so I signed in with a user name that I established 6 years ago. A screen popped up that said, generally, for about $30 I could get access to the electronic edition for 3 months and then I would pay $1/day thereafter.
I could buy a latte at Starbucks and read the WSJ and use up a day's food stamp allotment. Makes perfect sense.