Chances are, you can get crab legs - even King Crab - cheap (half to 3/4 off) at a sea food special sale at a large grocery store if you are willing to take chances on items just over their "sell by" date - and many stores (especially at military bases, where a large number of junior enlisted families qualify for food stamps) often have a "Sea Food road show" where crab legs and other seafood, like bay scallops, are easily affordable.
I've seen King Crab selling for the same price as Chicken Breasts, depending on the season.
And if you've been lucky enough with sales to stock up your pantry to last the rest of the month so there might be a bit and you're buying it for a special occasion or treat, as long as your kids aren't starving that last week, whose business is it anyway?
I guess the poor and people who can't find work that pays enough to feed their families are supposed to be punished with only gruel and water to survive on to "make them try harder" - even if there aren't any paying jobs within commuting distance and they can't afford to move.
"Sorry Granny - you may be 85, but since you didn't save enough at your 30 years as a administrative assistant to pay for health care, keep a leaky roof over your head, and eat, so now you've got to arm-wrestle the equally elderly old Mr. Brown, the Widow Martin, and at least 20 other 80+ year olds for that last 4 hour a day slot as a greeter at Walmart.
Who cares if you lost the pension from the only job you were vested at in the Crash.
Who cares if businesses stopped valuing employee loyalty after the late 1980's when vulture capitalism and trickle-down economics became popular and large amounts of the population started losing long-term employment and living wage-paying general and skilled labor jobs.
Who cares if the last three jobs you had laid you off before you could be vested in their 401K program and screwed you out of full return and retirement.
Who cares if one of your seriously under-employed adult grandchildren and his family have moved in with you for free rent and babysitting in exchange for taking care of you and your house
Oh, and those crab cakes or apple torte you might want as occasional comfort food - well, that's too good for lowly social parasites like you to eat. You and your household only have enough social net worth for PB&J, tuna fish casserole made with saltines and frozen veggies, or beans and rice for one afternoon/evening meal, and unflavored oatmeal or toast for breakfast. No treats for you. You didn't try hard enough - to just die of a stroke or heart attack from stress or overwork while you were still working and bringing profits to your betters."
Hunger Games for the elderly, the disabled, the children, and the unlucky, just because of the .25% of people on government assistance are mentally unstable or addicted enough to be satisfied with milking the system and living in chaos.
Next, idiots like Gohmert will suggest that if they've got anything left over on the EBT after they purchase what's on the pre-approved list for the month, it goes back to the government.
Haele
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