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When I was a teenager I worked in a grocery store and it bothered me when an EBT user strolled up to my cash register with all brand name groceries, oftentimes organic and costing twice as much. Others would appear with 12 packs of beer (in the bottle of course, cans are for poor people) and purchase the "healthier" (more expensive) cigarettes with the EBT card and then ask for cash back.
I knew that if I multiplied my hourly wage by 40 hours and subtracted x percentage that these people were still taking in more money than I was by sucking the gov't ***.
I live on my own while attending college full-time and don't meet some of those "poverty" standards. And I thought my living arrangements were pretty comfortable, especially when I read what SF and other combat arms men live with on deployment.
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