FOOD-STAMP CHALLENGE
Oh, my heart bleeds for poor Mark Leno.
I just talked to my wife, who is the family budgetmaster, shopper, and menu planner. By her accounting, we spend about $500 a month in foodstuffs. Now that's for a family of five. Break that down, and that comes to about $23.33 per-person, per-week -- not far off from the $21-a-week that's starving Mr. Leno. And our stomachs aren't growling.
True, we don't go out very often. I bring a bagged lunch to work most days. And we don't eat much red meat except for hamburger. It is, to be sure, a far cry from the feasts and banquets to which Leno, his fellow legislators, and the lobbyists up in Sacramento have grown accustomed. But we are doing just fine, thank you very much, and we don't even need to resort to some of the more drastic money-saving techniques Mariel lists below.
Leno's bellyaching tells us a lot more about his appetites than it does about the food-stamp program.
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