Comments on: Confessions of a Bourgeois Tourist http://www.michiganfoodstampchallenge.org/56/confessions-of-a-bourgeois-tourist/ Could you live of $21 of food a week? Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chuck Warpehoski http://www.michiganfoodstampchallenge.org/56/confessions-of-a-bourgeois-tourist/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Chuck Warpehoski Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:24:01 +0000 http://www.michiganfoodstampchallenge.org/56/confessions-of-a-bourgeois-tourist/#comment-143 Thank you for helping remind us that we ARE tourists here, and being a tourist is not like being a local. Our experiences of hunger pangs and short tempers (and I've certainly felt them) don't let us "know what it's like" to live on food stamps any more than going skiing in the U.P. let's us know what it's like to go through an upper peninsula winter. I'm lucky with this. Since I'm organizing the Challenge, I get to talk to all the reporters from across the state and hear people say "oh, yeah, I heard about that." So I do see our challenge making a difference, especially as the Senate prepares to start writing the rules for food stamps for the next five years. Is it enough? No more than digging a foundation is enough to build a house. But it is important, and it does bring us one step closer to enough. Thank you for helping remind us that we ARE tourists here, and being a tourist is not like being a local. Our experiences of hunger pangs and short tempers (and I’ve certainly felt them) don’t let us “know what it’s like” to live on food stamps any more than going skiing in the U.P. let’s us know what it’s like to go through an upper peninsula winter.

I’m lucky with this. Since I’m organizing the Challenge, I get to talk to all the reporters from across the state and hear people say “oh, yeah, I heard about that.” So I do see our challenge making a difference, especially as the Senate prepares to start writing the rules for food stamps for the next five years.

Is it enough? No more than digging a foundation is enough to build a house. But it is important, and it does bring us one step closer to enough.

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