Comments on: Food Stamp Challenge, week 39

By: Milehimama

Milehimama — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:02:39 +0000

Clarification. I don’t hate our President, but I think electing him was a mistake and many of his positions, especially on life issues, are execrable. So, in essence, I do hate a lot of his policies and ideas.

By: Milehimama

Milehimama — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:33 +0000

I do not hate our President. I also don’t think food pantries should deny food to anyone, legal or illegal. My note about the migrant workers – who may or may not be illegal aliens – was to show how the system unfairly puts some people above others. Migrant workers get a preference because of their job.

That might be why I wrote “It is a crime against charity to require a government issued piece of paper before they will give food to hungry children.” in the post where I mention migrant workers getting preferential treatment.

Next best hope for a plan out of poverty? ROFL.

If the Administration really cared about the poor, than why was his Cash for Clunkers for NEW cars only, and not applicable to the working poor who need to repair the cars they have? Why did the money rain into the banks, but not the soup kitchens? Why is more debt and spending encouraged, leaving out those who cannot get credit?

This healthcare – the Baucus proposal taxes the sick (raising the deduction threshold from 7.5% to 10%) and will tax medical devices. That’s a new tax on contact lenses and crutches as well as pacemakers. That’s going to disproportionately affect the poor, too.

By: Laure

Laure — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:24:38 +0000

The reason you are required to have a birth certificate is to prove that you and your children are legal citizens. Based on what I’ve read here (ie – your disgust with the fact that Migrant workers can get emergency food stamps), I have no doubt that you and your readers would have little problem denying food to deperate and destitute Mexicans. You hate our President so much, when he and his party are you next best hope for health care and a path out of poverty. I cannot understand such hypocricy from “Christians.”

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:04:29 +0000

I had to get a new copy of my birth certificate a few years ago and it was pricy. I couldn’t believe it. I was going to suggest WIC but figured the wait there would be long too and they would tell you to apply for food stamps first. If your husband has a photo id I would send him with any birth certificates you have to the food pantry. Maybe you could get something that way even if it was based on a smaller family size.

By: Milehimama

Milehimama — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:07:33 +0000

They mail then here. They did in Denver, too. Maybe the big cities doon’t have enough equipment to process them, or maybe they want to make sure you put your actual address down on the license.
I *can* get birthcertificates (after I have a picture ID), but they cost around $20-30 each and take 4-6 weeks. $30 x 8 = money I don’t have right now! LOL Two I can get right away because the kids were born in Harris county – Houston – so I just have to go to the office in person. But 4 kids were born in Denver, which I have to mail, 1 was born in another county in TX, and one was born in SC.

But again, I have a real problem with denying food to desperate and destitute people because they don’t have a birth certificate for their kids.

It’s my own fault, really. I should have sent off for the certs a while ago but procrastinated because I didn’t need them for anything and I kept hoping they’d turn up. But we’ve (finally) finished unpacking almost all of our boxes and they’re nowhere in sight. I’m missing our 2007 tax return, birth certs, and 3 social security cards.

By: Tia

Tia — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:40:45 +0000

Why do you have to wait to get your license in the mail? That just strikes me as odd because here, you go to the DMV, turn in your paperwork, stand on a line, get a picture and five minutes later, you’re handed your license.

Can you get birth certificates from the counties where the kids were born?

I’m so glad you’ve had so many people pulling for you. It does a heart good to know that there really are people out there who care and will go to bat for others.