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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My nephew and his young family have an Ebt card. And he and his wife have iPhones. The phones were free with service and are paid for on a family plan my parents pay for. Each additional line is 15 dollars a month. Living several hours apart and having no other computer, phone, Internet, so on, this allows my family to keep in contact. Both my nephew and his wife work full time jobs. They are back breaking low paying jobs however and they have two small children.   
You are judging something you have no knowledge about. [/quote]

And you are defending a different EBT recipient about whom YOU have no knowledge - based on what?  Your personal experience, which amounts to a sample size of one family. That's it.

In general, EBT recipients should be saving their money so they don't end up on EBT long term.

I personally do not believe that iPhones and eating at restaurants is a wise use of money by someone on EBT.  Don't you agree?[/quote]

Different poster but I don't think any of us here with the luxury to sit at a computer and type out our grievances has the judgment to decide "wise use of money" for someone who needs public assistance.  Yes, there are scammers out there up and down the socioeconomic strata but that's not a reason to leave the huge gaping holes that exist in our social safety net.  There are way more people at the higher end who are bilking public funds to ensure prosperity never trickles down.  I don't know if you've been paying attention in the last couple of election cycles, but our culture celebrates these people. You're buying into a decades-long stereotype that people who need assistance are nothing but lazy moochers with no incentive to work, but it's that very lie about poverty in America that has helped poverty in America grow to unfathomable proportions.  They're called "entitlements" because the other lie we tell ourselves about America is that everyone is entitled to basic life necessities. It's just not true, is it?

We're always going to put profit ahead of lives in this country and if poor people are the ones most likely to buy cheap, unhealthy food well then you can bet corporations are going to figure out how to get whatever money poor people have to spend.  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/09/fast-food-chains-getting-into-the-food-stamp-act/
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