Could I live on $42 a week?
On one level, it's a silly question. I can buy a lot of rice and beans for 42 bucks, and live on it quite nicely. Not much variety, of course, but nutritionally sound.
And it begs the actual question, which is, how do we take care of our genuine poor, while monitoring such programs for abuse?
But I could easily live very well on the salary of anyone who administers any part of the food stamp program. |