This Guy Spends $2.75 A Year On Food And Eats Like A King

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18. It's crazy how many people have the mindset not to waste food.

Kids are told to eat what on their plate and they are lucky to have yucky bristle sprouts because there are starving children in Africa who would love a wholesome meal... Yet, they are more than willing to see 40% of supermarket foods go into a dimpster, than for anyone else in Ameeica to get something for free... Mainly because they are jealous they aren't getting something they think someone else "less deserving" is getting over their own selves.

We would probably help close this mind set or punishing people/ families/ children living in poverty, if we actually raised the qualification income across the board for families in America. A working poor family or lower middle class family is struggling heir butts off to put any food on the table and pay the rest of their bills.

Either they need a raise or govt programs need to start helping offset the costs for living in America. As it is, there is no state one can rent an apt and make min wage. In many places even that $15.0/ hr min wage is too low... There would be less grumbling or support for a congress to take away benefits for poorer families of the govt were to increase the people who could gain access to the program.

My family doesn't qualify, however, we could really be helped out big time if we could get just $200/ month in SNAP benefits. Many times I have had to grab a credit card and pay interest on a "pick me up" loan.

You know the back in 2007 - 2008, before the crash, when families were feeling a big pinch and recession was looming, Bush decided everyone needed a cash infusion. Could you imagine in Obama suggested that now?

You know, if everyone in America making less than $50,000/ yr could get a $10,000 govt pay out check, the economy might actually flourish just a bit. Yeah, some people would pay off old debts. A "married" couple may combine their pay outs and place a down payment on a house to own. Students may pay off a student debt. Others would take the money to open up a business (smart young people could actually combine 10 people into a company and have a $100,000 investment to start up a company.

I think it's past the time where govts need to begin thinking outside the box in regards to a "capitalistic society", and collecting taxes as "wealth" of the country. There has got to be a way to begin valuing intrinsic items like human beings, ecosystems, clean water and air, nutritious foods, housing... With out technology and globs working community, no human being needs to even work 40hrs a week any longer. There should be a basic value given to people to live without having a job at all, and with a job adding to that amount as "extra"... So there would still be a class system, but a young mother could choose to take 2 yrs off of work to stay home with their baby and not wonder how to pay the rent/ mortgage. And maybe long term mortgages in homes just doesn't really work any longer... Perhaps we need something in-between renting and owning. Many people have to be able to be mobile to go where their job or a job market for their field may take them.

I don't even know how we begin to equalize human beings globally to ensure every human has a basic right to exist, have access to safe housing, nutritious foods, healthcare, clean water and air, and free education. And a means of easier travel and living and working in other countries... We should have as much opportunity to travel and work as the very goods that are produced and transported all over the globe. Right now, we are seeing a retraction to borders and nationalism as a pushback to the type of globalization the wealthy are fostering on the world... Where everyone else produces their goods, people struggle to purchase those goods, and the wealth is sucked up to the top.