I know a woman who gets $900 a month in food stamps AND free food from a food pantry monthly AND the kids get fed at school for “free” AND they get “free” school packages each year-backpacks, notebooks etc....they also get “gift cards” for school clothes and shoes and coats...
Her husband works and her and her three kids are on Medicaid-the kids are teens, so now they’re getting into glasses and braces etc.
The kids are just a meal ticket; she has had a few jobs over the last ten years, but not enough to count. She plays the system so well, it is astounding to me.
SZQ
It has got to stop. More than likely, they are also on the earned income tax credit too.
I pay for half my medical and my wife works, pays for part of hers and pays for her married daughters health and car insurance and helps out with her expenses. We are not having a tough time getting by yet we have to watch the frills. Our cars are 12 and 10 years of age yet we make a decent income. I look around and see all these benefits being lavished upon “the poor” and I believe that when evaluated, their total compensation package is higher than ours. I want to puke because I am tired of pulling the wagon.