Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?

[Kyle DeLexus]

Originally Posted by Backwards Masking

I had a lady who makes 35k a year and a husband making 65k a year (he works there too) bragging a year ago about she's getting WIC to help pay for grocery bills. Two people making 100k a year getting help paying for their groceries? it used to be the people accepting this stuff were the pathetic dumbasses, now it's the people NOT accepting this stuff that are the dumbasses.

When I was a kid, we lived next to a Brazilian family that bragged to my mom that they got a divorce so they could get on all those gov assist programs. My mom was a mid-20's single mother with 3 kids and no car working minimum wage at the time and she had too much pride to accept "government charity". She still holds a grudge against that family because she worked extremely hard to provide for her kids on her own.