Found Blog Entry

Today I will make the internet blog for me. I will enter my gmail spam folder, take out the 5th, 15th and 25th emails, and use the 3rd word from the end in each in an “I feel lucky” google query. Then I shall cut and paste a blog entry from where google takes me.
Raise the Food Stamp Program’s Minimum Benefit to $25 a Month
The Food Stamp Program’s minimum benefit should be increased to $25 per month and adjusted in the future based on the annual change in the cost of living. The new costs estimate is $3.5 billion over 10 years. About $2 billion of this cost is linked directly to the benefit increase and annual adjustment. Because such a change would likely attract new participants to the program (especially seniors), we estimate an additional cost of $1.5 billion as a result of increased participation among currently eligible non-participant households.
Rationale: The Food Stamp Program’s existing benefit allotments are inadequate. The minimum benefit level is of particular concern. It currently stands at only $10 per month and has not seen an increase since the 1970s! Simply put, $10 does not stretch as far as it did when the minimum benefit level was set 30 years ago, and a significant increase is long overdue.
Thank you internet. Now I sleep.