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In reply to the discussion: Woman weeps to senator over Social Security cuts: "There's no way for me to eat less!" [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)138. The only real truth in your posts is the amount of hot air you are spewing...
You forget transportation to and from the store, plus a place to cook it, plus appliances to cook it on, plus something to cook it in, plus the time to do this while riding the fucking bus to and from work which takes another 4 hours out of ones day...and always being healthy so you can be up to do these things, which is pretty unlikely on that diet with no fruit, vegetables, or diet supplements, which increase the costs beyond what you have said..
Lots of other costs not being figured in with your mythical solution to hunger.
While it might work for someone who lives off the back of an aid truck in a country where the kids scratch in the dirt with sticks to learn, in this country you are leaving out the fact that over 6 million of the households , which translates to about 20 million people or more, work for a living, (a worker making federal minimum wage who works full time during the year is under the poverty line if they have 1 child, btw), assuming they miss no days, which doesn't exactly leave the them leisure time you think they have to cook these foods, which do, in fact, take longer to prepare than most.
You leave out the fact that we give Aramark more in contract money to feed prisoners in a group setting with all the discounts that buying in bulk nets. There isn't a court that hasn't ruled that you can't feed people like you suggest. Maybe with your wisdom you should go set them straight.
But it's relatively easy for a Fox News employee, or even a (self-described "well-educated" middle-class Democrat (maybe in a political office) to sit on their fat ass and tell others that they should be able to be more thrifty, isn't it?
Not to say that describes you...of course.
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Woman weeps to senator over Social Security cuts: "There's no way for me to eat less!" [View all]
limpyhobbler
Aug 2013
OP
K&R. I have contacted both of my Dem senators about Chained CPI and they oppose it too.
MotherPetrie
Aug 2013
#1
It's the level at which, if you earn any higher, you don't have to pay any more than that.
OnlinePoker
Aug 2013
#100
All it does is give fuel to the fire if the pugs get back control of the purse strings.
OnlinePoker
Aug 2013
#128
LOL! "contend?" Yeah, points for that! Thanks for being a good sport to my grammar
maddiemom
Aug 2013
#191
True and shame on us! I think some of the poorest countries treat seniors better!...
Little Star
Aug 2013
#26
High calorie, government subsidized carbs are the cheapest food source and it makes many people
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2013
#17
Yes, and others, like me, have a catastrophic medical condition for which very expensive food stuffs
silvershadow
Aug 2013
#59
You are really naiive or ignorant if you think that I am an outlier. I am just lucky that my
silvershadow
Aug 2013
#69
Oh, well, then by all means I apologize. Tell me, what are your line of work and education?
silvershadow
Aug 2013
#80
I do understand that, as I am educated and worked in public health as well. My point is that your
silvershadow
Aug 2013
#89
So is your degree or field nutrition? Is is accompanied by any type of medical degree? Because,
silvershadow
Aug 2013
#97
Eating beans meal after meal is inexpensive, you're right. BUT how often can a person stand to eat
shraby
Aug 2013
#107
A bag of beans and a bag of barley. 6 meals for $2 total plus energy and water costs
Recursion
Aug 2013
#29
The only real truth in your posts is the amount of hot air you are spewing...
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#138
I try not to be too mean, but damn. People just don't get how truly hard it is for
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#151
What a lot of people dont realize is that the poor dont have access to healthy
rhett o rick
Aug 2013
#120
Your 'Beano' adds about 25 cents to every single meal on your 'eat beans you old
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#101
I'd give up if I were you. This crowd is simply not going to eat beans. Me, I love 'em.
Flatulo
Aug 2013
#140
So gee, asks Granny to herself, "Do I buy my heart medication this month, or the beano?" nt
MADem
Aug 2013
#176
They're arguing with you because they believe you're arguing against the woman...
Moonwalk
Aug 2013
#126
Maybe you should write a letter to the woman in the OP and allow her your suggestions...
LanternWaste
Aug 2013
#194
Of course the average benefit on SS is currently $1,230, the $40 difference you
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#103
I don't know if trolls like beans, you can answer that yourself. DO you like beans? /nt
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#150
IAT, and some older people get food pantry, which is often in that category; and don't have the
freshwest
Aug 2013
#106
Soylent green would probably be cheapest of all, and maybe even most nutritious
IrishAyes
Aug 2013
#133
If she ate just enough to lose her minor excess weight it wouldn't make much difference in her
HiPointDem
Aug 2013
#77
It is a good change of pace from dumpster diving maggot rich meat supplements.
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#160
You're going to have to be more patient. The GOP said Obama's proposal wasn't enough.
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2013
#201
It put it on the table. He offered up one of our sacred cows. Not bullshit and not Obama hating.
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2013
#23
"A political maneuver" - i.e. fucking with the welfare of old people reliant on SS. Is that right?
MotherPetrie
Aug 2013
#40
He's told everybody publicly. It's in his budget. Again, sorry you don't get that.
MotherPetrie
Aug 2013
#96
Well, I'm sorry I forgot the Prez can just sign an executive order and voila!
cliffordu
Aug 2013
#117
You keep missing the point -- which is that a DEMOCRATIC president wants to screw with SS.
MotherPetrie
Aug 2013
#163
Did he tell you in your private conversations he suggested it but was just kidding?
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#154
The point is that we have a Democratic president who is even proposing Chained CPI in any way, shape
MotherPetrie
Aug 2013
#98
“I’m sorry to say that the president of my own party has advocated this and he’s wrong."
forestpath
Aug 2013
#104
Spreading disinformation is acore value for all BHO haters on the right and left. nt
kelliekat44
Aug 2013
#18
Tom Harkin is a "BHO hater" ? Really, you actually think that and that he spreads disinformation?
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#156
And as everyone forgets, the poorest retirees are not subject to a chained CPI in any plan suggested
Recursion
Aug 2013
#22
Since Al From arrived on the scene to succesfuly pull the party to the right of Reagan, yes
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#158
Are you really suggesting Obama lied each of the many times he absolutely publicly endorsed it?
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#159
so the leader of the party offering to cut social security actually strengthens the party?
Doctor_J
Aug 2013
#164
Obama's Catfood Commission II, coming soon to jeopardize the 2014 elections.
blkmusclmachine
Aug 2013
#179
When did Bush's privatization scam take effect? Were we wrong to oppose it until it passed?
TheKentuckian
Aug 2013
#192
Here we have the CHEAPEST of ALL the cheap dodges to deflect criticism I have read on DU:
bvar22
Aug 2013
#215