[Nowhere Man]

I know, I see it myself working retail at Macy's. I've seen the EBT Card people who come in and spend like over $500 for clothing like Polo, Ralph Lauren, Nike, Under Armour and so forth. Crap, that's a little more than my rent and the rare times I get them to sign up for a credit card, they are declined 90% of the time. They have the credit rating of a rock, on welfare but they plunk down $500 like nothing. I work hard and long hours and I barely get by. BTW, I just exploded one day and asked my father, "how can they spend all this money," and he added that in addition to being on welfare, most likely that money could have been from illegal source, "drug money" he says. I don't begrudge people who truly need help but come on, if you're that desperate should you buy something cheaper or not as much until times are better? I think logically and being the "knight in sour armor I am," I still manage to "do the right thing" even though sometimes I think I'm wasting my time or I have a sign painted on my back in invisible ink that says "sucker." Still, Mom, and Dad, taught me to do the right thing.

Gotta go to work, millions on welfare depend on me.

[DoughtyOne]

When my former wife and I were dating, we made a fairly decent income between us. There was another couple who she happened to know, who were on government assistance.

They got a number of different types of help. They got housing assistance, food assistance, other forms of assistance, and cash from these programs.

One of them confided in her how much it was, and when she found out she was dumbfounded.

They were hauling in more from the government than we were being paid to work our asses off.