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Rise of consumer prices a disappointment

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I was disappointed to read that consumer prices rose 1.1 percent in June. I often accompany my mom to the grocery store and have noticed how we have cut down on our grocery spending. During those visits I ponder how people can possibly subsist on food stamps. For my family, a single mom and two teenagers, the maximum allowable monthly amount would only be $426. For the month of July that would be $13.74 a day, or a measly $1.53 per person, per meal. My school lunches?this year?cost more than that, and they are bought in bulk.

What can you buy? A frozen pizza, a couple of pot pies? You couldn't even buy a box of cereal and a half gallon of milk. Forget fresh fruit, fresh meat, anything not high fat, high sodium, prepackaged crap. And we wonder why we have an obesity epidemic.

If we are going to have social services, shouldn't they be helping instead of contributing to the demise of a population that relies, for whatever reason, on food stamps?

B. Young

Norman

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