Ugh, don't get me started. I became a conservative way back in the days before ATMs and direct deposit were widely available. It occurred when I would have to wait in long lines at the bank while on my lunch hour. I was depositing my full-time job paycheck, and often one from a part-time job.
In front of me were the welfare queens - dressed 'to the nines' - and with expensive-looking fingernails and jewelry - cashing whatever check they used to get from The State around the 1st of each month, little kids all around them. They obviously didn't work - it was easy to eavesdrop, as they were SO loud.
The memory of it still pisses me off...
“In front of me were the welfare queens - dressed ‘to the nines’ - and with expensive-looking fingernails and jewelry”
Now they get tattoos, in addition to the clothes and fingernails, etc. And you KNOW tattoos ain’t cheap.
I travel to work via BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and every day when I have to be home early (note, couched statement - LOL) the largely African-American women emerge onto the platform at 5:15 or so, wearing Pravda glasses, Gucci purses, faux-diamond encrusted I-Phones, D & G dresses, etc.
They work for the city/county/state in Oakland, San Francisco or Martinez/Hayward (courts).
They get off in terrible areas but seem to literally be exempt from the economic downturn.