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Does having SNAP make people not care about food costs?

Anneburn said:
Here is where the US falls on the poverty line compared to third world countries.

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=69

I'm not saying we don't have poor here. We have 1st world poor (industrialized nation) compared to 3rd world poor. The previous poster was asking why churches helped other countries and not our own. I think they do both and should do both. We as Americans have a security system that third world countries just do not have.
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You do understand that a great number of households in Appalachia have neither electricity nor running water right? That's not 1st world poor...
 
while I agree, it is the most important, what happened to eating breakfast at home? I mean, seriously this bugs me. If the child does not have time, why not? Wake them up 10-15 mins earlier, kwim?
 
mama22angels said:
My issues wasn't the ingredients... it was the wetness of the dough. When I ask well how do you know if its too wet/dry... I would receive the look and the answer of well, ya just know by feeling.

I get this response for pie crust as I make great homemade pie crust and it is by feeling. I have yet to make biscuits as good as my moms and I miss them.
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If it sticks, it's too wet, if it balls and resists flour from the surface, too dry.

Here is the best way I know to explain it.

If it sticks, it's too wet.

If it's too dry there will be residual flour you can see in your bowl. That's why you get it too wet, and then add more flour. Think of it like salt. You can always add more, but you can't ever take any away.
 
My nieces ande nephews attend a Chicago Public School. It is a Magnet school. Many children qualify for the free lunch program. Their school also serves breakfast to ALL kids. When you walk in you are offered either a hot or cold breakfast. My brother told me that the government pays them $1.50 per child for breakfast and it cost the school $1.00 to make each breakfast. (not sure of the exact $$ amount). This is how the school "makes" extra money.
 
mama22angels said:
while I agree, it is the most important, what happened to eating breakfast at home? I mean, seriously this bugs me. If the child does not have time, why not? Wake them up 10-15 mins earlier, kwim?
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lol, tell that to my kids! ;) no, in reality, we don't have that issue, although my kids school starts an hour earlier than all the other elementary schools here. I was just referring to those who qualify for free lunches, they then of course qualify for free breakfast, so I always thought that breakfast was available at school for them. My kids rather have the bacon and eggs I cook, or CTC, they love that sometimes more! lol
 
Adding to that, if you use a mixer, even a hand mixer with a bread hook, it will stick. That's good. Add a teeny bit more flour at a time, in 1/4 cup batches. If it spins up on the bread hook, and there is still more flour in the bowl, you've added too much. Take it off the hook, set aside, take the residual flour and knock it into the trash, then finish hook kneading for the rest of the minutes.
 
lanyb said:
My nieces ande nephews attend a Chicago Public School. It is a Magnet school. Many children qualify for the free lunch program. Their school also serves breakfast to ALL kids. When you walk in you are offered either a hot or cold breakfast. My brother told me that the government pays them $1.50 per child for breakfast and it cost the school $1.00 to make each breakfast. (not sure of the exact $$ amount). This is how the school "makes" extra money.
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This, I'm sure will bother all of you to no end, but in Ava's school, all kids can get a school lunch for $1.50. We choose not to do that program because her lunch would be redundant.
 
Anneburn said:
Here is where the US falls on the poverty line compared to third world countries.

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=69

I'm not saying we don't have poor here. We have 1st world poor (industrialized nation) compared to 3rd world poor. The previous poster was asking why churches helped other countries and not our own. I think they do both and should do both. We as Americans have a security system that third world countries just do not have.
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2.8 percent of China's population ~ 38 millions
12 percent of US population ~ 36 millions
3.6 percent of Malaysia's population ~ 900k

So the poverty eradication and social engineering programs are working in China, huh?
 
I couldn't find a job, so I made one. Maybe it will last forever, I'm pretty creative.

And nothing andystowing has said has offended me at all. I am a little taken aback at some of the responses, to me she so obviously is not going for "offensive."

But whatev. I have beans to flash freeze.
 
skincarekathy said:
I couldn't find a job, so I made one. Maybe it will last forever, I'm pretty creative.

And nothing andystowing has said has offended me at all. I am a little taken aback at some of the responses, to me she so obviously is not going for "offensive."

But whatev. I have beans to flash freeze.
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Yup, I am the survivor and still the bread winner the last I check. :giggles:
 
skincarekathy said:
I couldn't find a job, so I made one. Maybe it will last forever, I'm pretty creative.
And nothing andystowing has said has offended me at all. I am a little taken aback at some of the responses, to me she so obviously is not going for "offensive."

But whatev. I have beans to flash freeze.
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And yet you still fall into the wide net of teet suckers that these threads refer to. Your insurance is still through the state no? :bee: Pull up those boot straps further and do for your own missy! get off the social programs!





:sar: I don't actually think this about Kathy, I'm merely making a point about some of the statements that get tossed around here.
 
skincarekathy said:
I don't even know how to respond to that.

Back to the beans.
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Why not? What I said is not untrue. PLENTY of people here have posted over and over and over again about hand outs, and GA, and charity and blah blah blah. Yourself included...about how people stopped taking care of themselves when the government started taking care of them.

The government takes care of your insurance at the moment, you've said so yourself. So how do all those statements not apply to you? (I'm not saying they do, what I am saying is that you "technically" fit into a category of people who get some sort of GA, which clearly many many people here feel there shouldn't be any GA, or any GA for able bodied workers). I'm simply pointing out that you are a person that this mud is technically being slung at.

I find it ironic that people on the one hand applaud you for your resourcefulness, your knowledge etc. but then make blanket statements which in the abstract apply to you too.

If being honest makes me a **** so be it. But I'm not being a **** to be malicious. I'm making the point that there are real people and real families behind the "statistics" and the rhetoric about GA. Families who need it.
 
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