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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the Midwest in the 1970s, in the urban core. My mother was a SAHM. My father was self-employed. They struggled to make ends meet. When we went to the grocery store, my mother would sometimes comment after we left, how full the grocery carts would be of the people using food stamps (no EBT card at the time). And how they usually bought junk my mother couldn't afford to buy. And they had more children, sometimes in diapers and no shoes. And they would buy cigarettes. I think the buying of the cigarettes was the kicker. LoL. Lots of judgment. [/quote]
Maybe they shopped once or twice a month; no wonder the carts were full. Junk food is cheaper, has more packaging around it, lasts longer. I was an Au Pair in Maryland for a lovely middle class educated people. They bought so much crap for their children and you expect lower class people know better. Their diets have been corrupted from infancy.
More children? Maybe they didn't have birth control, maybe they needed them to feel love. Raising kids is not easy, but they had need for them that was clearly stronger than thinking how hard the next 18-20 years would be. 
Cigarettes? Everyone smoked in 70s.
I judge you, because you saw better and you know better. Since you are so much better and know better, you should know exactly why the poor behave the way they do. They can't help it really. I few can. There's a good movie quote that goes something like that,' first you make thieves and then you punish them'. So, first the society creates poor people, keep them poor for generation and punish them for that.[/quote]

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