Michelle Shanker
I have spent much of the week wondering how people on food
stamps survive. I am hungry, tired, and crabby. I think about food
and miss the “noshing’ all day. Mostly, I can’t figure out how hungry
people can be expected to work – or how hungry people are able to look for
work?
This has been a great education in morality for me. Doing good and charitable work is a very important thing, but a hungry
person has no energy to do tikkun olam. How often could you afford
to do charitable work if you are on food stamps? And for me, that would
be the worst part of it – having to take without being able to give back. To
never have the satisfaction of being able to take care of someone else.
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