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blake murphy[_2_]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:53:26 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

>
> Didja see that tv spot where the guy tried to live on food stamps for
> a month? I wanted to grab him thru the tv screen when he tossed boxed
> mashed potatoes in his cart along with some other convenience type
> boxed and canned junk.
>
> No wonder he couldn't stretch a dollar.
>
> Stepping off soapbox now.

about a year and a half ago, a number of democratic congressmen and others
in the media and elsewhere took a challenge to live for a week on
twenty-one dollars (the amount alloted then for food stamps). they didn't
find it all that easy:

<http://foodstampchallenge.typepad.com/>

your pal,
blake