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Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by MisterBastahrd » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC

leetcrew wrote: post #324

MisterBastahrd wrote: post #242

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Okay now try to eat like an actual human being and make it work for $500 over 30 days. The dollar amount itself is fine, but SNAP should be supplemented with basic commodities. Beans, rice, flour, sugar. The prices for these when purchased at the volume of the federal government drop to near nothing.

> Okay now try to eat like an actual human being and make it work for $500 over 30 days. what exactly are you saying here? I spend about $300/month on groceries and I eat pretty well. edit: maybe you're still talking about feeding a family of three?

Yes. $500 doesn't go very far if you're feeding two teenagers and want to have food variety. Spices are expensive and the price of vegetables goes by the season. That's why I think they should have a supplied commodity benefit in addition to the money.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by MisterBastahrd » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 9:11 PM UTC

jonfw wrote: post #372

MisterBastahrd wrote: post #242

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Okay now try to eat like an actual human being and make it work for $500 over 30 days. The dollar amount itself is fine, but SNAP should be supplemented with basic commodities. Beans, rice, flour, sugar. The prices for these when purchased at the volume of the federal government drop to near nothing.

$16 a day is the minimum to eat like an actual human being? You could eat a steak a day at that budget

That's $16 a day for 3 people.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by 1024core » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 5:16 AM UTC

pwaivers wrote: post #328

1024core wrote: post #147

San Francisco started this when it closed the school 3 weeks ago. Any adult can walk up and pick up meals for themselves and their kids, no questions asked.

Do you have a link for this? I see free meal for 18 and under in SF, but not for adults also.

They don't ask for ID or proof of any kind.

https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/nutrition-sch...

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by JSavageOne » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 3:25 PM UTC

kryogen1c wrote: post #355

JSavageOne wrote: post #319

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If you're going to make a rebuttal, then make a rebuttal. So far you haven't really said anything to refute his statement that society would be better off if everyone was guaranteed 3 meals per day.

I rebut that it is ok to offer "society would be better" as an argument. its an emotion, not a debatable proposition. here, let me take your side: "given that good nutrition and a lack of stress from worrying about food allows people to develop more intellectually, raising taxes to pay for food welfare will actually raise money by introducing more workforce" there are principles you can attack (good nutrition aids br…

Sure if one is attempting to write an academic paper or PhD thesis, then "society would be better off" is indeed not rigorous enough, I'll give you that.