Cory Booker, the high-profile mayor of Newark, New Jersey, intends to live on a food-stamp budget for one week to demonstrate how difficult it is to do. I wish him well, I am looking forward to his reaction and report on the experience. I wish that every critic of food stamps and hunger in America would take a food-stamp challenge before uttering any criticism.
Good idea Mayor Booker
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Jueseppi B.
This guy is too good to be true. I agree that a year would be a more realistic sample, but I give the guy credit for trying to make a point. And besides… he rescues people from burning buildings. If my youngest daughter brought home a guy like this, I’d be so delighted they’d have to chase me down in the street and drag me back home.
Well….Booker is single…ain’t he?
He is? Well now… we might need to load up the truck and head for New Jersey….
Maybe your youngest daughter could meet him after he comes off his “entitlement” learning experience….
Great idea but not near enough for a test sample. Try 6 months, Cory. Still, I commend his efforts to highlight the plight of the needy.
I say do it for a year. Thats the only way to see the real issues of “entitlements”. In a years time shit happens and you can gauge just what a government check really means to a recipient.