Jackass Quote of the Day

[sheshe2]

“I should try it because, do you know how fabulous I’d look. I’d be so skinny. I mean, the camera adds ten pounds.” -Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros on the SNAP challenge

Could you live off $133 per month ($4 per day) for food? Personally I know I couldn’t, but according to Fox News serious person Andrea Tantaros, doing so sounds like a great idea because she would look “fabulous” afterward.

Tantaros’ remarks were made in response to Fox News host Stuart Varney following a short but pointless discussion about Newark Mayor Cory Booker taking the SNAP challenge in a faceoff with his critics. And Tantaros may think she would look “fabulous” after living off food stamps for an extended period of time, but the truth is she would not look fabulous, feel fabulous, or perform fabulously in her day-to-day life.
http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/11/jackass-quote-of-the-day-8.html

[milestogo]

1. Now that twinkies are going away, no.

[sheshe2]

10. Welcome to DU!

Tried to check the shelf live of Twinkies for you. So you could stock up.

Rumor has it that it was forever...but Snopes said it was really only about 2 weeks!

Sorry...

[quaker bill]

2. To the contrary

To subsist on $133 a month, you load up on cheap carbs, with modest amounts of veggies and a little cheap protein. The reason people who are on SNAP tend to get fat is that the bulk of the diet is made up of cheap carbs. Lots of potatos and rice.

[NBachers]

7. Yup, I'd head right for the potatoes, rice, beans, and pasta

[Marie Marie]

14. More like Rammen Noodles on that budget.

[quaker bill]

16. It sometimes boils down to how many calories you can get for $1

It is difficult for a Fox News anchor to imagine, but it is really like that. I have done it. I was pretty good with a fishing pole when I needed to be.

[freshwest]

8. And food banks are generally low on meat and veggies, high on cheap carbs.

[sheshe2]

12. My Mom has been volunteering at the local food bank for years.

She is still at it at 85 years of age! I have asked her often about the uptick in new people coming in. There has been a steady increase over the years and always busy during the holidays.

There is a very generous market in her town that donates much to the pantry. So I guess they are pretty lucky. However I know there will always be shortages with supply over demand.

Support your local food pantries Everyone!

[hrmjustin]

3. She has no soul.

[sheshe2]

4. No brain either...then again she's on Faux Noise.

[spooky3]

5. why didn't someone reply: "so, what's stopping you?"

[sheshe2]

9. Did't you hear...she starts tomorrow! Not

They are all Jackass's over there! WOW O'Reilly is just brilliant!

Fox Hosts Cite Heritage Study To Call Into Question The Severity Of Poverty In America

O'Reilly: "How Can You Be So Poor And Have All This Stuff?" From The O'Reilly Factor:


O'REILLY: The Census Bureau reports that 43 million Americans are currently living in poverty. The bureau defines poverty as a family of four earning less than $22,000 a year. But the conservative Heritage Foundation says that many poor American families have lots of stuff. Here now to analyze, Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs.

[...]

O'REILLY: Eight-two percent have a microwave. This is 82 percent of American poor families. Seventy-eight percent have air conditioning. More than one television, 65 percent. Cable or satellite TV, 64 percent -- thank God.

DOBBS: Amen, brother.

O'REILLY: Cell phones, 55 percent. Personal computer, 39 percent. And as we said, that's a 6-year-old consumption survey, so these numbers are way up. So how can you be so poor and have all this stuff? [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 7/20/11]

[ladym55]

11. These Heritage Foundation "fact sheets" are appalling

They don't actually cite anything. They pull things out of their butts to justify being hateful to poor people.

Students will use these "fact sheets" on American poverty in their essays where I work. So students will say charming things like "there are no poor people in America ... only lazy ones."

But don't question the Heritage Foundation as a source!!!!

[sheshe2]

13. From Feeding America

Poverty
•
In 2011, 46.2 million people (15.0 percent) were in poverty.

•
In 2011, 9.5 million (11.8 percent) families were in poverty.

•In 2011, 26.5 million (13.7 percent) of people ages 18-64 were in poverty.
•In 2011, 16.1 million (22.0 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
•In 2011, 3.6 million (9.0 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.
•The overall Poverty Rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 16.0%, as compared with the official poverty rate of 15.1%.ii
•Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, there are 49.1 million people living in poverty, 2.5 million more than are represented by the official poverty measure (46.2 million).iii

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Use of Emergency Food Assistance and Federal Food Assistance Programs vi
•In 2011, 5.1 percent of all U.S. households (6.1 million households) accessed emergency food from a food pantry one or more times. vii
•In 2011, 57.2 percent of food-insecure households participated in at least one of the three major Federal food assistance programs –Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly Food Stamp Program), The National School Lunch Program, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. viii
•Feeding America provides emergency food assistance to an estimated 37 million low-income people annually, a 46 percent increase from 25 million since Hunger in America 2006. ix
•Among members of Feeding America, 74 percent of pantries, 65 percent of kitchens, and 54 percent of shelters reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites.x

[brewens]

18. It's funny that the closest "welfare" family to me, my girlfriends daughter and her

husband and kids, think they're conservatives. They fit the Billdo stereotype perfectly. They are supposedly poor, get the state food card, WIC, Medicaid and help from their church. They have all the stuff too. I don't begrudge them having things but when they blow $4000 on a vacation, eat pizza and fast food constantly and order pay for view movies frequently, I can see Billdo's point. Did I mention they're conservatives?

I know her daughter voted for Romney too. Her husband is doing pretty well at Home Depot, relatively speaking, but they are exactly who Romney was ripping in his 47% video. They are what so many bagger types are calling takers and parasites.

One of these days one of them will start talking right-wing bullshit and I'll chew their face off! Fortunately, I'm not around them much.

[Initech]

6. Fox News rots your brain.

[Heathen57]

15. That amount is too high for her.

Since the GOP booted billions from the SNAP program, we try to feed 4 adults on $151 a month. That is actually the amount for 3 people because our daughter isn't allowed to get any assistance because she was until recently a full time student and wasn't pregnant. According to them she is to starve.

That works out to $1.26 a day for 3 meals. We do buy lots of beans, rice, flour and try to stretch a 10# chub of ground beef for 30 days. We have pretty well stopped eating except for one meal a day, and then make something up to snack on if you are really hungry. Our income comes out that we have about $200.00 left from bills to buy the necessities, medication, and fuel.

Our Rep is a GOP Stooge (Lamborn), so writing to get him to vote for an increase in SNAP would be a waste of time. Instead, since we didn't end up with Romney, I will appeal to all the other agencies to see if they can put a bug in right person's ear to get the money reinstated.

I would love to see that moronic woman try and survive. That won't even buy her a small Double-caff, part-skim- Latte. Maybe she could survive on the Bullshit they shovel out over there at fox every day.

[sheshe2]

17. So sorry for your pain.

You are in my thoughts!

[obxhead]

22. Writing is NOT a waste of time!

find someone of like minds that can afford the stamps and envelopes for you. Send the letters.

Then support his opponent in 2014.

[knightmaar]

19. How about $150/month?

That's what our family of four lives off, $150 per month per person.
Economies of scale, obviously, with a family.
We're not living in some cheap area either. We're in Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
I guess $133 a month might be a challenge, but we'd probably just cut down on meat in favour of eggs and other sources of protein.
Still, I'm sure the point of this challenge wasn't to make people jealous of how the poor get to be so skinny without even trying.

[XtopherXtopher]

20. I could. Ironically, it's easier to do here in NYC...

The most expensive city in the US is also the cheapest — for those who know where to look. But that requires talking to "undesirables" as well as developing a taste for 99¢ pizza.

I'd starve in the suburbs.

[obxhead]

21. Live?

Sure.

you won't do it well though.

You will be eating mcshit or other home made high fat box food.

You can not eat a healthy diet on $4 a day in today's market. Hell, you'll be hard pressed to eat a single healthy meal at $4 at today's prices.

[knightmaar]

23. Eating at restaurants is a huge mistake if you're saving money

You have to make your own food, from scratch.
Make it in large quantities and freeze it. It's your lunch tomorrow.
You never eat out at lunch. You never go out to a restaurant.
Your snack is almonds and raisins, not pre-made, processed "granola bars".
You find ways to fill yourself up (not white bread, sir) that don't cost much.

[obxhead]

24. BS

Even making huge portions that are frozen to be had as leftovers $4 a day is nearly impossible.

By nearly, I mean if you get free food from somewhere, you MIGHT be able to do it.