Lukey
Senator
Recently I had to run into that store and, sizing up the three lines, chose to stand behind a woman with one item in her cart. It was one of those large ice-cream cakes. When the checkout person said "Forty-one dollars," I wasn't the only one who blanched. The shopper's son, around 12, repeated it as a question: "Forty-one dollars?"
I quickly calculated that the woman's cake was eight times more expensive than the kind I make at home to celebrate birthdays. The mother ignored her son's question.
She took out her benefits card, swiped it through the machine, and they were off. My turn.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203604577398542170392890.html?KEYWORDS=food+stamps
I quickly calculated that the woman's cake was eight times more expensive than the kind I make at home to celebrate birthdays. The mother ignored her son's question.
She took out her benefits card, swiped it through the machine, and they were off. My turn.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203604577398542170392890.html?KEYWORDS=food+stamps