Question: Should the government fund breakfast and lunch programs?
This question was at the root of the Twitter beef between New Jersey mayor Cory Booker and a Twitter user known as Twitwit, aka @MWadeNc.
The spirited Twitter debate resulted in an unusual challenge, in Mayor Booker’s own Tweets (as Twitwit’s Tweets are protected):
Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey (high cost of living) and feed a family for a week or month. U game?@mwadenc
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) November 19, 2012
Mayor Booker intends to follow through and wants to document Twitwit in action:
Great. Lets do this. I hope you live in New Jersey. Lets film it and see how we do. RT @mwadenc sure, Mayor, I’m game.
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) November 19, 2012
Yes. RT @cj_s10: did the math on the food stamps thing..comes out to roughly $4/day..does that sound right?
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) November 21, 2012
Why not join the challenge, do you think you could eat a balanced meal on a budget of $4 a day? If so, how would you do it? “SNAP,” or The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, reportedly supplies food stamp assistance to more than 46 million people each month, that have no choice but to make it work.
