http://www.liberadio.com/2007/05/18/because-its-in-the-constitution-thats-why/ with Mary Mancini and Freddie O'Connell Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.liberadio.com/2007/05/18/because-its-in-the-constitution-thats-why/#comment-36563 Volunteer Voters » Putting My Stamp On It Fri, 18 May 2007 19:08:24 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=743#comment-36563 [...] Mary Mancini learned recently that the average weekly food stamp allowance was only $21. She implicitly asks the question whether this is enough: Government officials say that the current food stamp benefits are enough but we all know that there’s a difference between eating and eating well. My friend, Billy, subsisted on $3.00 per day for 100 days (his Lenten project) and he said that could afford food that would make him feel full (a bag of Doritos, anyone?) but that he couldn’t afford food that would make him feel full and was healthy. [...] [...] Mary Mancini learned recently that the average weekly food stamp allowance was only $21. She implicitly asks the question whether this is enough: Government officials say that the current food stamp benefits are enough but we all know that there’s a difference between eating and eating well. My friend, Billy, subsisted on $3.00 per day for 100 days (his Lenten project) and he said that could afford food that would make him feel full (a bag of Doritos, anyone?) but that he couldn’t afford food that would make him feel full and was healthy. [...]

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