budget. that s $1.48 per meal for each member of his family. his wife and two sons. mario batali will join me from one of his restaurants coming up. and in the rewrite, actor pundit ben stein told bill o reilly last night that president obama is not as smart as richard nixon. yes the richard nixon that was driven from the presidency for committing high crimes and misdemeanors. yes the criminal richard nixon. we ll find out how smart ben stein is in tonight s rewrite. [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take away the faces on the trees.
places that are difficult to find food which would make that is lot more difficult to achieve. but at that point you have to give it over to allowing the store to dictate your menu by buying what s on special. which may be chicken legs. which may not be flank steak, it may be beef chuck. it s understanding that you really have to think about in a different way and allow the store to drive what you re going to eat. part of your motivation for this is in congress the food stamp program is under siege. there are dualing proposals about how much to cut it and cut it very significantly. how do you cut $1.48 per sneel. well, the proposal is somewhere between 20% and 30%. so i guess you re going to cut it between a quarter and 50 cents. i think what s more significant than the number is why we would be cutting anyway. it seems to me when 75% of the food stamps go to families with children, the idea of not
$1.48 per meal each. on day four of batali s life on a food stamp budget, he told the associated press, i m expletive deleted starving. y and figuring out ever cheaper ways to put food on the table. he said his teenage sons are quote, having more peanut butter and jelly than they ve had in the last ten years. batali has been leading a couple of hundred people who are trying to eat for a week on a food stamp budget. this is an act of discipline and sacrifice that few among us would dare undertake, except of course, those already living on food stamps. kind of wonderful that a rich and famous celebrity chef who never has to think about the plight of the hungry would help raise our awareness. well, fox news doesn t see it that way.
celebrity chef mario batali, whom i ve never had the pleasure of meeting is trying to rewrite this country s understanding of the food stamp program from zero understanding to what it s actually like to try to feed a family on food stamps. at the big food bank for new york fund-raiser about a week ago, i challenged everyone to try to walk a mile in a person s shoes. and that was to see if you could live on food stamps. it really causes us to think about what hunger is, whether the states is responsible for feeding people. what kind of things are going on in politics and what really makes it a great kind of engine for our discussion at the house is we really have to think about what we re eating. tomorrow mario batali, his wife and two teenage sons will finish the week of eating on the equivalent of a food stamp budget. that s $31 per person for the week. $1.48 per meal each.
when london was shut, but a little bit of selling on the paris cac, perhaps on the back of the swiss strength we re seeing. one theme is that we are seeing hoss for carmakers with vol being wagon and daimler among the losers. we re seeing a little bit of a recovery in asian currency trading for the dollar, but not very much. certainly we don t have the full numbers there, but 1.66, 1.48, so continuing strength this for the euro against the dollar. but currency traders are really saying that actually the theme of the moment is dollar weakness and we ll get back to that later on. so 81.03 meanwhile at the yen. yeah, that strength of the