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To: Responsibility2nd
Oh, it was posted this year.

 

 I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps
Wash Compost ^ | July 8, 2014 | Darlena Cunha
 

Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2014 4:00:48 PM by ETL 2

Sara Bareilles played softly through the surround-sound speakers of my husband’s 2003 Mercedes Kompressor as I sat idling at a light. I’d never been to this church before, but I could see it from where I was, across from an old park, abandoned in the chilly September air. The clouds hung low as I pulled the sleek, pewter machine into the lot. But I wasn’t going to pray or attend services. I was picking up food stamps.

Even then, I couldn’t quite believe it. This wasn’t supposed to happen to people like me.

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10 posted on 09/10/2014 10:32:01 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

” I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps”

Obviously, she didn’t understand the “optics” of it. ;^)


31 posted on 09/10/2014 10:44:45 AM PDT by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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