Which is all beside the point. The
point is that the taxpayers of NYC were footing the bill for the rent of a man
who could obviously afford to pay his own rent. He was feeding wild
animals for Pete's sake. Probably the food bill for the tiger alone would
pay a very large portion of rent in a normal priced city. I would imagine
feeding a tiger would take several hundred dollars a month.
Charles Mims
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angela
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:54 PM
To: The Sandbox Discussion List
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Man Kept Tiger In Public Housing
Well I
know when Neil and I first got married and moved out on our own, he was only
working at Hardee's and making probably $13,000 a year. Our rent per month was
$300 along with electric and phone. With all that we were bringing in less per
month than what was going back out. We also had a POS escort that was falling
apart. As much as I didnt want to do it I went and got food stamps. We were
getting quite a bit but I still used them carefully and made them last the whole
month. About a month before Neil switched jobs (which would have ruined us on
them anyway) we had to buy a new car b/c our old one died. They totally cut off
all of them b/c they said if we could afford a new car (not that we could, just
had to have it and got the cheapest, most reliable we could find) then we could
afford to buy food. Now as I said, it wasnt that big a deal b/c right after that
he got a new job which I was just waiting for him to get so we could go off them
anyway. But with 2 kids, you had to be making less than $25,000 a year and your
car could be worth no more than $4000 and your monthly bills such as
rent/electric/phone had to total over half your monthly income.
But I
was under the impression that programs such as the food stamp program were
federal guidelines, not state guidelines.
-----Original Message-----In a message dated 10/6/2003 1:28:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Sndbox] Man Kept Tiger In Public Housing
That pisses me off to no end right there. I know for a fact that if you try to apply for food stamps, you are turned down if your car is worth more than $1000. My aunt got turned down for them b/c she had to buy a new car. Even then it wasnt a brand new car, but her old one was no longer able to be repaired and she got a used car that had problems on its own, but it was a newer car and still had a higher value on it and she was turned down. She is working two jobs and going to college and has 2 kids to take care of. She has a deadbeat exhusband that was able to get out of paying any kind of alimony or child support due to mental illness causing him to be disable and unable to work. She does get a social security check for her kids in the amount of $75 a month, which doesnt even pay her electric bill. How fair is it that someone who is trying but just needs a little extra help cant get any help simply b/c she needed a reliable car to get her too and from work. And for the record her car is a 96 cavalier that she bought in 99.
i don't know how it works where you are from, but here we still got our food stamps (card) with no changes and we HAD to but a 2000 auto for about $16kthe only killing us on food stamps is that jackie had to get a job to pay for our rent.
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