The USDA Secretary Is Moving To Block Food Stamps From Illegals…

@cherokeepatti It absolutely is a city thing.

@Gibbon There was a time when I was married to my ex and had little money for groceries. He would say “You need to go apply for food stamps”. But he was drinking & smoking any time he had money instead of trying to save a bit even when he had a good job during the oil boom. We rent a little house in a rural area and made a garden that I worked very hard for and raised a lot of vegetables, canned some of it, frozen some when i finally got a freezer and made other canned foods from berries or other fruit I’d get given to me. If it wasn’t for that and the little bit I put back in the pantry every month during spring & summer when he was working more we wouldn’t have had food. And I wouldn’t go beg any food off of relatives like his sister-in-law did when her husband was out of work when it rained (construction work). I guess it was pride and it would have been shameful for me to ask for help when he was blowing money right & left when he had it. I learned how to cook meals with what I had including chicken backs, cheap cuts of meat, beans and canned veggies. I see people with food stamps buying all manner of junk foods, soft drinks and expensive steaks etc. and just shake my head thinking it would have been like winning a lottery if I had them back then when it was rough. This is just one reason I learned to cook so many kinds of food, baked bread & other things and cook beans & other inexpensive foods sometimes so that this teenage boy will learn to appreciate those things. We have money now but you never know what you will need to do to survive if you don’t have much money.

@cherokeepatti I know all about struggling with money but for far different reasons. My 2nd ex was a financial disaster to me. Any money she saw coming was spent before it arrived.
When Vickie came to live with me I decided she wasn't going to work.
This apartments low price allowed me to comfortably take care of both of us. When she became ill she decided to apply for SSI rightfully. It took 2 years getting approved. Snap came with it. Between me and her assistance we both financially recovered from previous $ despair. She was only on it for less than 2 years before she passed.
Living on only my SocSec and a very small pension I am financially in the best way I've ever been and my credit rating near the max drifting up and down. I would love to rub my comeback in my ex's face.
And don't get me wrong I would still be in the same financial position without Vickie acquiring some income for herself.
But I will never forget the dismal hardship that women emotionality and financially caused me.
However if I'm ever forced from this apartment I'll be in trouble. I will never find a place priced like this old house again.

@wildbill83 They are selling them to get money for alcohol and other things.

@graphite I guess they can whine & plot & scheme to change this at their next Cornbread & Beans meeting here.