Magical Misery Tour 2
Heather Denkmire is not impressed by persons who decide to take the “SNAP challenge” and live on a foodstamp-sized food budget for a week.
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November 11, 2013 at 11:54 am
Food stamp challenges haven’t worked. No matter how many ordinary people or celebrity pols occasionally do them, we’re now at the stage where the national policy is even more malevolent toward the poor and hunger than it was four years ago. So if that’s ‘help,’ they should stop right away. Anyway, you don’t have to do the challenge to know that living on the meager subsidy isn’t doable unless you pay absolutely no attention at the supermarket. This country still hasn’t had food riots. I’m thinking more and more that it should. ‘Course, historically — in our times — I don’t think it did even when it was more desperate than now, before the institution of the food stamp program. The poor just starved and were ignored. You have to have food riots before everyone becomes debilitated.
November 11, 2013 at 11:46 pm
I thought her column was excellent. There is a certain condescension in being a tourist of poverty.
You put into words what I have been thinking: I suspect/fear/hope we are not far from food riots.
The callousness of our public discourse is most distressing.
Indeed, even Dr. Dan called it out on a recent episode of Voices in the Family, in which he went on a rant (most uncharacteristic for Dr. Dan Gottlieb, whom I’ve listened to for years) about the word, “entitlements.”