[rightwingintelligentsia]

The poor spend other people's money on necessities. They spend their own money on luxuries.

True. I'll never forget the time I was bagging groceries from our church food bank for a poor single mother who said she had no food in the house. She sat and watched me, drawing my attention to her fingernails, which she had just had professionally manicured at a local salon.

And the other day I read a post on another forum from a woman who boasted that while she makes just $12K a year, she had recently purchased two Louis Vuitton purses.

Oh, the travails of 21st century poverty.

[MrB]

And “the poor” often take multiple (lavish) vacations a year,
whilst those who are paying for those vacations might go every 5 years (or more) on a driving trip for the weekend.

[wbill]

bagging groceries from our church food bank for a poor single mother

If my mother was there, she'd have said, "What's the matter, you have a broken arm? The least that you can do is bag your own FREE groceries."

[ArrogantBustard]

I'll never forget the time I was bagging groceries from our church food bank for a poor single mother who said she had no food in the house. She sat and watched me,

Emphasis added ...

You (or someone like you) produced that food, packaged and shipped it, earned the money to buy it and put it in the food bank, bagged it up and handed it to a physically fit young adult ... who did nothing whatever to get it.