I got my food stamp card in the mail the other day and used it for the first time.
Swipe. Enter PIN. Voila. Easy cheesy.
I'm conflicted whether to have accepted the card or not. To be honest, joining Americorps and the roughly 50-percent pay cut that entailed has affected my life very little. Apparently I was already living within the means of "poverty level" before -- just being able to save a lot more money.
On one hand, I could live without food stamps. But, on the other hand, I AM eligible, fair and square, under the government's guidelines.
Shrug.
I guess my thoughts are, I might as well take it and save my own money.
As I tell people in my trainings, nearly $1.6 billion in money set aside for public benefit payouts in Ohio is not used every year. So I don't feel like I'm taking money from other people.
Plus, that money will just go back to the federal government to be allocated to other states and federal programs.
Yes, the governement could really use that money back, but we all know they are not actually going to use it to pay off debt or add to the social security pot. They are going to spend it elsewhere.
So they might as well spend it on me :)
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