From Salon, via Reason, a report on a wave of "pretentious, talentless, ironic, beard-wearing 'artists' charing their stupid and expensive began diets to the taxpayer."
She applied for food stamps last summer, and since then she's used her $150 in monthly benefits for things like fresh produce, raw honey and fresh-squeezed juices from markets near her house in the neighborhood of Hampden, and soy meat alternatives and gourmet ice cream from a Whole Foods a few miles away."...
"About half of his friends in Baltimore have been getting food stamps since the economy toppled, so [Gerry Mak] decided to give it a try; to his delight, he qualified for $200 a month."
"I'm sort of a foodie, and I'm not going to do the 'living off ramen' thing," he said, fondly remembering a recent meal he'd prepared of roasted rabbit with butter, tarragon and sweet potatoes. "I used to think that you could only get processed food and government cheese on food stamps, but it's great that you can get anything."
I confess I was never able to work up much of an outrage over "welfare queens." But I'd happily see these jerks locked in a dark room and fed ramen noodles until they begged to be let out to get a job.
