The topic from the OP was Booker was going to live on food stamps for a week. IMHO its one of those populists stunts politicians like to play. Booker needs to lost the weight anyway..
As to the food stamps program the bigger issue isn't who or who isn't entitled but rather should the program be permanent for a receipient?
In otherwords should we be giving people a permanent hand out or a temporary hand up?
In my view it is immoral to allow people to become slaves to entitlement....and yes I know there are some folks out there that need help. This may sound callous by some but the problem with Americans todays is that they emote too much and ignore critical and rationale thinking. So we need to get a grip. Like many of you who responded I have been fiercely independent and never accepted a handout even when it was tempting. Unfortunately if you research the stats that mentality is no longer in a majority
To illustrate how ridiculous we have become a journalist wrote an article sometime ago about helicopter parents. This morning she wrote about helicopter pet owners. One of her comments was that it use to be that dogs guarded people but today people are advised to guard dogs against risks even if there fenced it. Ugh!
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