Back in the 80s I lived in a welfare neighborhood. It wasn’t like that when I moved in but changed after a couple years. The apartments went Section 8.
I soon tired of hearing the welfare mothers complain about being “poor”. One day I broke out my calculator for a neighbor and added up her income. She only looked at cash income, I included rent subsidies, food stamps, free meals in school for her kids, free medical care etc. Her kids even made out tremendously at Christmas with free clothes and toys from a number of different charities.
It was far more than I made from my Army retirement and VA stipend for collage.
Ok...this is what gets me...these people receive food stamps...their children receive free breakfast and lunch in school...and some are now wanting supper too...if that's the case, what in the hell do they need food stamps for??...must be too damn lazy to get out of bed in the morning to make sure their kids eat breakfast and to pack them a lunch (with food bought using food stamps)...
so at Christmas time we all got to donate blankets, care goods and toys....
My "so called poor" family had:
Almost new SUV parked outside, big screen TV's, several computers, cartons of cigarettes on the kitchen table and a couple of chinchilla dogs running around with the 4 children.
I guess I was in the wrong occupation.