Getting in verbal altercations in public with strangers is not a smart move.
While there are definitely welfare cheats, there are also folks that are barely scraping by.
I live in a small community and recognize many faces. Some I know were hard workers all their lives, but can barely pay their bills now that they are on Social Security. While I was surprised the first time I saw some of these folks use their foodstamp debit card, in no way did I resent them taking the help.
Many proud Americans are less than 3 mortgage payments from being homeless. I have been on repossession crews where the Sheriff Dept literally drags the Father and Mother from their home, as a female officer escorts the kids. Not a pretty sight, and is very troubling to be a part of.
Do not for one minute think it can not happen to you or one of your family members.
!! Thank you. Great post.
To others, show some f#@*ing compassion freepers! Or do you like living the stereotype of heartless money-grubbing racist a-holes??
I was on food stamps when my youngest was born, after about 2 years, I got a good job and didn’t need them. I tell you what I would have had this self-righteous bitch in tears before I left wal-mart. Take the log out of your own eye before you go judging others.
You got it right. The people who are truly needy, despite having worked hard all their lives, unfortunately get lumped in with the bums.
A very sick woman I know—she’s in her 50s but looks much older— works and gets food stamps because she can’t afford to pay for her kidney dialysis otherwise (and she can’t afford the Obamacare premiums and deductibles.)
Her doctor advised her to take prenatal vitamins for her iron-deficiency anemia.
She told me she was verbally abused in the grocery checkout by a soccer mom who pointed at her bottle of prenatal vitamins and started bellowing about “welfare trash who refuse to work and won’t stop having babies.”