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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you pull your SNAP card out of your MK purse which also holds your iPhone 7, I judge you. I can't help it.[/quote]

Maybe someone gave them the purse and/or phone. Poor people sometimes have rich relatives who are generous and give them the extras they can't afford. [/quote]

Then they should refuse the iPhone 7 and ask for grocery money instead. Poor people will never dig out if they view luxuries as necessities/entitlements while spending government money on true necessities.[/quote]

Oh, you are so ridiculous and you've obviously never been poor. So the poor person can't accept an iPhone simply because they're poor? You are a real a--hole and I can only hope you one day have to ask for a handout and you should refuse any special treat and ask for grocery money. You are an actual loser.

I give my poor SIL and MIL clothes and old purses--many of them brand name, like Kate Spade or Coach--that they could never afford even though they're not even true luxury brands. So they're supposed to say, "thanks for the offer of this purse--which I really love and is actually useful to me--but can you buy me some groceries instead?" 
GET. A. LIFE. [/quote]

Sorry. I don't have an iPhone 7 (or even a 6) and yes if you are totally dependent upon government handouts for food, housing, etc then yes it is vulgar and wrong to walk around with luxuries that self supporting people don't have. Maybe all those with their hands out all the time should get a life instead! Or how about a job![/quote]

If the iPhone or whatever is a GIFT or a HAND ME DOWN what don't you get????

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Nope, I have seen in depth news stories (60 minutes, etc) of hoards of teens living in inner city housing projects with $150 sneakers and whatever iPhones are the latest. Definitely NOT gifts. What are they (or their parents) thinking?!? The financial skills not being taught are so disheartening.[/quote]

Sorry, friend.  Fox lied to you.  Again.[/quote]

NP. I don't know about "hordes," but I will never forget the Post story in the last two years about the 18yo (or maybe he was 17) who was expecting a baby with his GF. His grandma was proud of him (for being responsible) and gave him $200 to buy shoes (or bought them for him). In any event, she knew the money was going toward shoes. That same week he was killed for his shoes. Heartbreaking, and questionable. Why didn't his grandma give his GF the $200 to buy baby supplies? The GF was holding down a job at Starbucks and had one or two other kids. She was busting her butt, yet the grandma didn't acknowledge this woman.

And - I also remember that our big-law partner friend asked what we'd do with the tax rebate from Bush (wasn't it like $200?). We answered and he said he was going to use it to pay down cc debt. So, it's on both ends.

Read Elizabeth Warren's The Two Income Trap to understand how people can't cut out an expensive coffee now to make ends meet. Our housing, health insurance, and taxes are way too high in this country, whereas 30 years ago, they were a small percentage of the American budget. Consumer goods was the biggest piece of the pie then - so you could not buy a washing machine the year you got laid off and that would make a difference to your bottom line.[/quote]

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