USA on Food Stamps
USA on Food Stamps
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- pr2-1
So out of curiosity i used the Food Stamp calculator putting in that i make $1500/month... Nope, too much to be eligible.
WOW!
How can that be that people are not rioting in the streets if they have nothing???
- 1500 is a lot my friendversion3
- wait, are we living in the same country/century?pr2
- yes we are and the people on this board average much more an hour than most of the working population of the USversion3
- did u ever try to live on $1500/month?pr2
- easyversion3
- cause even if i tightened my belt i would have hard time.pr2
- supa dupa easy when i lived in KS and still doable in CA (my rent is $1000USD btw)version3
- please enlighten me how?
rent $1000, cellphone $100, hear + gas $75, public transport $100. $1275 TOTAL.pr2 - So u eat for $225???? For a month?????pr2
- i ride a motorcycle (which i own, no payments) and my cell phone is $70. no other billsversion3
- hosting & insurance is yearly, and i make more than $1500 monthly, just sayin' i could do it, i have done it... on lessversion3
- but don't say it's easy.pr2
- in ks it would be easy, here i would need a roommate to call it easy... albeit boring ;) no kids though tooversion3
- i'm happy ypu know how live "high life" of a vegetable. cause at $1500 it's all one can probably afford.pr2
- you are spending wrong apparently, i travel, buy wasteful gifts, and smoke way too much potversion3
- wonders about this high life vegetable lifestyle...?version3
- for real bro i pointed out to you a spending pattern with NO entertainment, NO clothes, NO nothing...pr2
- but sitting at home and waiting for death and that still only left $225/month for cans of soup.pr2
- get a roommate. now you have $725 for soup.monNom
- um, actually many of my friends here in NYC pay $750-850/room. So that only makes it about $150 extra.pr2
- oh is this calling me out because i wear jeans from old navy and american eagle?version3
- $1500 a month. $450 for rent $200 for car, $50 insurance, $70 elec, $100 cable/internet = $700 left.FredMcWoozy
- not in NYC.pr2
- what are u guys trying to prove: "it ain't that bad being poor!"Yes?pr2