Food Stamps aren't enough, now we should provide taxi fare

By The Scribe May 21, 2010 5:01 AM

Stories written by bleeding heart liberals always frustrate me but Karen Auge of the Denver Post has raised my frustration level to a new height on so many levels. Misery loves company so please join me by reading this outlandish "news" story.

Family's monthly shopping trip shows food can be close at hand, but far away http://www.denverpost.com/frontpage/ci_ ... source=rss

It was Saturday afternoon, which ordinarily is good enough. But this Saturday was special: It was shopping day.

Wimbush grocery-shops once a month. Whenever her food-stamp allotment is electronically zapped into her bank account, that's shopping day.

Sort of like payday, if you support your own family that is.

For the 32-year-old single mom, one of more than 179,000 Coloradans on food stamps, the roughly mile-and-a-half trip to the nearest supermarket isn't the mildly annoying weekend errand it is for most of us. Wimbush has no car, which makes running back for a forgotten head of lettuce cost more than a wasted few minutes -- it requires bus fare at best, cab fare at worst. A few of those trips equals the price of a meal.

Beyond the obvious tips that I'm sure all of us could give this lady to help her stretch our tax dollars further, so she could feed her family better, let's look at her transportation costs. Yes, if we don't pay insurance and buy gas to operate our own car there is the annoyance of public transportation for which we are expected to pay a little something over the amount of taxpayer subsidies.

I really don't think I'm hard hearted. I help adult members of my own family, tithe to my church, give over and above that to charities and pay all my taxes which are largely being used to fund entitlement programs.

Where does it stop? Will it be when we are all walking to a grocery store?

http://www.gopusa.com/fresh-ink/2010/05 ... i-fare.php