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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should have called her on it OP and then slapped the crap out of her. Snatched the iphne away from her and took the ebt card. Your tax dollars are paying for them anyway, right? Why wait for Trump? Poor people certainly don't deserve nice things/delicious food at Golden Corral.[/quote]

I've been through hard economic times, where I didn't take public aid.  I didn't have an iPhone or eat out.  I lived on boxes of pasta, day old bread, and tomato sauce.  There was no protein because meat was too exoensive.  I ended up in the emergency room on thanksgiving, where they did give me a food basket.  [b]That's what you do when you have hard times.[/b]  You save your pennies, and don't cry "I deserve xxxxxxxx."  You don't spend every last dime on Air Jordans or iPhones because that's one of the things which perpetuates poverty, this type of entitled consumerism.[/quote]

No, that's what YOU chose to do in hard times. You should have taken the public aid.[/quote]

Let me clarify.  I wasn't speaking about not taking public aid.  I was speaking of money management skills.  You can't get ahead spending everything you earn.  When you get back on your feet, if you don't learn to delay gratification, the next crisis in your life puts you back in public aid unless these skills are learned.  This type of materialism perpetuates poverty.  You never save up for down payments on cars, you never become a property owner, you never accumulate wealth or stability.  Without stability, your kids are at risk for failing school, and perpetuating this cycle.  But go ahead a defend the right to an iPhone as a God given right and keep these poor people paying rent at your section 8 rentals instead of learning skills to build their own security.[/quote]

[b]I didn't take it because I thought I could get by (I had family with whom I could stay for a while), and I thought it was more important for a limited resource to go to people who really needed it.[/b][/quote]

I am the woman who posted about the ER - my reason for not taking assistance is bolded.  Brought it to the back of the bus for you.[/quote]

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