[Mr Ramsbotham]

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

My wife and I didn't own a television for the first year of our married life, because we couldn't afford one and had no established credit. We did without and spent our money on food, transportation and a roof over our heads. It never occurred to us that someone else should pay for our necessities. Yet we never considered ourselves poor. We were middle-class people with middle-class values, working our way up.

[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]

Social programs are not about “helping the poor”.

They are primarily about getting ‘rat politicians elected,
and secondarily about making those who vote for the ‘rat pols feel good about themselves for “caring”.

[Dilbert San Diego]

You didn’t have a TV? Oh my gosh. So you missed out on watching liberal news and watching entertainment shows with liberal propaganda as part of the plot lines. Heck maybe you were better off in a way.