I live in one of the poorest counties in the nation. We distribute food for Thanksgiving and Christmas and choose families for gifts. We could hardly find anyone who needed the food for Thanksgiving and we had food running out our ears. I made the snarky comment, “So much food and so few hungry”.
There are so many freebies out there that the “poor” don’t need a thing.
The real poor children are those in drug and alcohol addicted families whose parents spend anything they can get on drugs.
Yep, we know one of those kids. Mommy and Daddy spend every penny they get on heroin while the kid goes to school without a coat in the cold weather this week.
Were it not for this young lady's grandmother being in the area to step in and help her, I shudder to think what would happen to this young girl. Absent her not having a coat earlier this week, one would never know she's in the situation she's in. We only found out this past week.
Some of the things I see just break my heart.