Texas Congressmen Are Taking Time Off From Watching Fetal Masturbation to Bring You This Important Message
It’s easy as hell to eat on $4.50 per day and congressmen who are trying the SNAP challenge are overpaying for groceries.
Donny
Donny Ferguson, Texas Congressjerk Steve Stockman’s communications director and agriculture policy adviser, announced that he walked his hiney down the street to the grocery store and bought enough food for a week “for just $27.58, almost four dollars less than the $31.50 “SNAP Challenge” figure.”
I don’t believe it.
I don’t think Donny understood that you have to eat all three meals off the $31.50 a week, and that fancy lunches with lobbyists don’t count nor do the donuts at the congressman’s morning coffee.
Congresswart Stockman and Donnie think SNAP recipients are eating high off the hog for $4.50 a day. If that is true, then let’s make $4.50 a day the limit for reimbursing meals for traveling congressional staff. Huh, Donnie, how about them hot dogs?
Thanks to Brian C for the heads up.
JJ, the whining and complaining, if such an idea took hold, would raise the carbon footprint of Washington DeeCee to dangerous levels
1A person can eat for $4.50 a day, all three meals but he has to be willing to prepare them from scratch and maybe grow a garden too. Let’s see:
2Breakfast–oatmeal with sugar and powdered milk
Break–cuppa tea or coffee, black, with no snack
Lunch–homemade soup from a carrot, a potato, an onion, and some dandelion leaves–they’re very nutritious, long as they’re not sprayed.
Break–more black coffee
Supper–some leftover soup, salad from iceberg lettuce, no dressing, slice of bread. A homemade oatmeal cookie.
NO FREE LUNCHES ALONG THE WAY.
I love it. Changing their per diem to $4.50 would chap their chaps, even if just for each meal.
When I was travelling in the mid-80s, we were getting $25/day (nothing if it was a partial day, even if we were out 12 hours) for meals. They were figuring $5 for breakfast, $7 for lunch, and $13 for dinner. In small towns you could usually make it work, but only if you had a fast-food lunch, which would allow you to splurge for orange juice at breakfast. In the cities, trying to find dinner for under $13 anywhere near your hotel was a challenge.
3Oh he didn’t MEAN that THEY oughta have to live that way, just the poor old wrinkled handicapped freeloaders in wheelchairs.
4My “junk” mail came yesterday. All those grocery and furniture ads. Most of it goes directly to “recycling”.
However, I’m a kind of a fan of dollar and $.99 stores. So, I held onto one. It’s from the $.99 Store, and it tells me I can feed a family of four for under $4.00. This is what you get: 12 oz. pasta. $.79 – One canned meat sauce $99 – 3 oz. parmesan cheese $.99 – and 4 ct, pkg. Texas Toast $.99 – total for all this: $3.79. All the carbs and processed food (probably loaded with sodium) you could possibly want. If you want to buy lettuce, broccoli, mushrooms, cauliflower, or fruits…. all an extra $.99 each. Dressings… also… extra.
Please don’t ask why we have an “obesity” problem in this country. What people usually almost HAVE to buy to live within this “budget” would be carbs…. beans, rice, pasta…potatoes. It’s not a healthy diet. It’s just inexpensive food. JMHO.
5I wonder how long that silly SOB would last on ketchup soup (made with packets pocketed from some over priced diarrhea diner)? (No crackers either!)
6This is what he actually bought:
For $21.55 Ferguson purchased at Dollar Tree:
Two boxes of Honeycomb cereal
Three cans of red beans and rice
Jar of peanut butter
Bottle of grape jelly
Loaf of whole wheat bread
Two cans of refried beans
Box of spaghetti
Large can of pasta sauce
Two liters of root beer
Large box of popsicles
24 servings of Wyler’s fruit drink mix
Eight cups of applesauce
Bag of pinto beans
Bag of rice
Bag of cookies
For $6.03 at the Shoppers Food Warehouse next door Ferguson bought a gallon of milk and a box of maple and brown sugar oatmeal.
Which means:
Oatmeal or cereal for breakfast everyday.
Peanut and jelly sandwich for lunch everyday.
Spaghetti and sauce for dinner maybe three dinners.
Beans and rice for four dinners.
No vegetables, only fruit is high sugar applesauce, and the only dairy is milk. Bring on the obesity!
7I think this is a brilliant suggestion! I would suggest that we lobby to tie the “SNAP Challenge” figure,” to the Congressional per diem. And we disallow any lobbying breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.
Of course it will never pass, these critters will never get off the gravy train. They will however, as my daddy used to say, “keep on shoveling.”
8I’m sorry, I can’t even be funny about these republican jackasses trying to starve the poor. This is just sick. And I’ll bet each and everyone of these creeps considers themselves christian. It is so painful for me to even read about this. I think this is the low edge of their scummy end game to obliterate the poor and basically make them serfs.
(Its so sad when you can’t even make fun of these miserable republican creatures anymore).
9The bigger the hat, the smaller the (male body part)?
10Heard from Bugs Bunny again. Stockman and Donny are so dumb they don’t even rate a “what a maroon” from the rabbit. These clowns actually don’t know, don’t care to know and don’t want to know that you have plan you food purchases extremely carefully. They also have to have some idea of decent nutrition which obviously they don’t. Besides growing your own vegetables and fruits (if you are lucky enough to have the land to do so), hopefully you live in an area where you can get stuff like turkey necks, an abandoned lots sprouting dandelions and other edible weeds and then actually share the food with more than just your lonesome self. Then there is the issue of certain personal household products such as TP, toothpaste, bath soap, laundry soap, kitchen soap and so on. Once upon a time during the Reagan Administration someone did this at the Executive Department level and admitted to the flaws in the program. But Reagan, as you remember, was no fan of the poor, especially if you were already on entitlements. Recall the fictitious Welfare Queen and her Cadillacs et al.? The way they believe the poor have too much and the rich never enough must be in their DNA.
11That old saying, “Put your money where your mouth is”, applies here. Maybe Ferguson could tough it out for a week, but by the middle of the next, he’d be out to dinner for a steak. This idea of tying the per diem for congress and staff to the SNAP value is pure genius. Ho do we get started?
12Even the $.99 store “feed a family of four for under $4.00” thing…. that’s ONE MEAL. NOT THREE, OR EVEN TWO. Not too many left-overs with four people eating what they advertise. Maybe some parmesan cheese. That would be about it.
I agree this not a humorous situation. For people to poke fun, or to ridicule people, who have to try to make do on this amount of money, people who do not work as “congressional staffers” with the accompanying perks, is just plain sick.
13What an absolutely horrible selection of groceries! And this domestic wizzard is *proud* of it, thinks he’s proved some kind of point? Would *he* enjoy eating this slop week after week after week?? Would anyone be eating *healthy* with crap like this?!?
The other thing is, Dollar stores are hardly *grocery* stores, and yet in too many neighborhoods, that’s about all there is. Which forces awful choices as far as nutrition and variety, and eventually impacts health in all sorts of negative ways. Is little Mister Communications Director addressing *that*? Oh, golly, look–I don’t think so!
Nothing but a cheap, nasty, insulting little stunt. I’d like to slap his yuppie little face into the middle of next week.
14It costs plenty of money and time up front to plant a garden, money and time to maintain it, and money and time to preserve what you don’t eat fresh, if you’re lucky enough to get that bumper crop. Food ain’t free, even if it’s from your own backyard.
15And I also meant to say that you gotta be in decent physical shape to be gardening.
16That photo of Donny-Boy has my “Gay-Dar” flashing red and setting off all it’s sirens!
17What a cute looking cowboy Donnie is!
Just one more thing . . . I remember when a new Congressman actually went shopping to stock up his “kitchen”. It was all alcohol and not the rubbing kind. He’s not here any more.
18So, little Donny also has a degree in nurtrition? Who knew Stockman could afford such?
19He just bought bread, peanut butter & jelly.
20Tell me he didn’t have a single coffee all week
21Yeah, that’s a terrible diet. The beans and rice take cooking time (does he know how to use a crock pot?) and if he gets them cooked, he’s gonna get real tired of beans. If you have someone who’s ill or a picky eater, it gets real hard to buy stuff they’ll eat. I also don’t believe he went without coffee for a week.
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