Modern Poverty Includes AC and X-Box

[Groleck]

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.

[rdret1]

It aggravates the crap out of me when I go to a residence for whatever reason and find a young "man" on disability that is physically as capable, or more so, than I am. Then you see they are living in Section 8 housing; have EBT cards; a 50" HDTV; a new SUV with rims, head rest video screens all around and a speaker as big as a steamer trunk; and a decked out crotch rocket. Then you arrest them for warrants or something else, the magistrate gives them a $2000 bond and they whip it out of their back pocket like it was nothing. Happens more often than most people would think.

[Barbarian]

I would estimate that 30% of the local populace, here in my AO, draws some sort of tax funded income. Most of these live in "single-wide" trailors, which sport a satellite TV dish. Beside the trailor generally sits some form of ATV. Often times it's a $16,000 polaris razor or some such.

Did you know that people on welfare actually get free cell phones now?!?! Just found that out the other day.

No damn wonder that our national deficit has become so large.

[BOfH]

I live near an infamous NYC project, it was actually considered the worst in the five boroughs for some time. Man, you should see some of the cars parked in front of this place, along with their PA plates so they don't have pay NYC auto insurance rates on their 'Benz