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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience working with families who receive welfare, those that are generational or life long welfare recipients (grew up on welfare, on welfare as an adult) often have a very poor understanding of money / budgeting and very limited financial management skills. It is often important to them to use the money they have to be generous and kind and to do things for others. They buy gifts, take friends and family out for meals etc as part of being caring, considerate giving people. They don't want to stand out as the poor people who never contribute or never do anything nice for others. The problem is this comes at the expense of the rest of the month. One family I worked with always brought me a gift each month to show their appreciation and after paying a few bills, spent the rest on gifts for others. By the 3rd or 4th of the month they had $0 left for the rest of the month.

OP - regardless of how they spend the money they get a set amount so it is costing the same tax wise - they don't get more each month if they spent the money on gifts. [/quote]

I don't have any personal experience in receiving welfare, foodstamps, etc., however, I do have experience in seeing that those in need receive this assistance.  Frankly, OP, your comments make me want to slap you.  In this economy, when so many people have lost everything, very few families that I have seen are "generations of long welfare recipients."  I suppose you think poor families have no right to food, shelter, any form of material happiness.  You and OP are class AAA assholes and one day you may need help and you'd better hope that you have a case worker who is more like me than you.

Also stop judging people and their situations.

OP, for your information, Food stamps are good to buy any kind of food.  This includes meat, vegebles, fruit, canned and frozen foods.  Food stamps cannot be used to buy paper productsi, e.g., paper towels, toliet tissue, sanitary napkins or tampons for females.  I suppose the two of you with your high six-figure income would like them to use their hands in lieu of toilet tissue, the hem of their sleev or dress to wipe their nose, and find free newspapers to use for women's hygeine products.

OP, it is truly none of your fucking business how this woman spends her food stamps.  Poor as she may be, she obviously, has a generouis heart and spirit and wants to share her very limited good fortune with others.  Apparently, this is not something with which you are familiar.

I have had clients who have worked hard all their lives but lost their jobs, then their homes, and one woman (who was in exec. management,) job was cut and she could find nothing else.  Not even flipping burgers because she is too well educated and it was believed that she would continue looking and would leave when she found a better job, which, of course, she would have done,  was living in her station wagon with an 11 yr. old boy and 5-yr old male twins.  Her ex was nowhere to be found.  Her story is the norm these days.  Be careful, because it could happen to you and do not think for  single moment that it could not.[/quote]

I have no idea why you quoted my post then ranted at the OP. If you were angry about my post, you have poor reading comprehension or poor anger management. I am not against welfare. Many people are on welfare because of the poor economy or because of circumstance - my point was that those who are not on welfare because of circumstance but are instead on welfare generationally are those that struggle more with budgeting their money. I was speaking to the OP's point of trying to understand why some people spend their money on gifts / in a generous and giving way when they have other needs. [/quote]

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