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1..Go to a cheeper beer is a starter.
#2..Grow your own tomatos,because the prices you'll be paying for them will be like the cost of...well be like something that won't get ya high...So a "Victory Garden" might not be a bad idea.
#3..Go apply for any government support whether it comes to food stamps,or heating assistance..let alone even the food shelf..Because if you don't..you'll either be to late to qualify,or it'll go to something else the goverment is responsible for..for there so lack of.
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Going to cheaper beer assumes that people spend a considerable amount on beer to begin with.
That may help some working poor teenagers and drunks, but I doubt it will help many familes already struggling to make ends meet.
A (rather large) victory garden that is fiscally meaningful requires that one cans or finds other ways to store a consideraable amount of homegrown food. Few people have the land or the skills, or even the money to set up such a system.
As to the various government programs you're speaking of?
Contrary to the belief that apparently many of you here have that welfare is out there and the living is easy, there really isn't all that much out there that I am aware of.
Here's what I think I know about those programs that working people are eligible for here in Maine..
1. Heating assistance gives people about 200 gallons of oil (My very modest cape uses about 700 gallons a year)
2. Food stamps pay $5 a day per person depending on you family income
3. I just looked up welfare in Maine to discover this: Welfare bennies are cut off for a family of 3 which makes more than $596 A MONTH.
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| In Maine, for example, the maximum benefit for a family of three is $461 and the "standard of need" used for fill-the-gap purposes is $596. A family with countable income (income after allowed deductions) of $200 would be eligible for a benefit of $396, the difference between the $596 need standard and the $200 countable income. Under the more common method for determining benefits, the family's welfare grant would be $261, the difference between countable income and the maximum benefit. |
That's it' folks. Those are the goverment welfare programs that exist that I know of to help the destitute or the working poor.
Anyone here imagine those bennies are really going to significantly offset the problems they're facing due to the spiking of food and energy?
So the only REAL solution to rising costs is increasing your income.
It is going to be interesting times this winter. I expect to see a significant migration from the Northest of people trying to escape the cold.
Empoverished snowbirds will coming your way this year, Dixie.
Much like the people who tried to escape the dustbowl of the 1930s I expect.