83% of SNAP benefits go to households with children, an elderly member, or a disabled member. The average person on food stamps only collects them for 8 months and gets an average of $133.00 a month.

Yes, I'm sure selling used Chanel jackets can get a person an apartment. You know, thrift shops are a great place to get designer stuff for next to nothing. Not everyone who has a fur coat has money - I recently bought one at a garage sale for around $8. And I live in an area where there's a huge market for designer…

So poor people are supposed to want "sympathy?" Because that's the last thing most of them want.

So you cut someone coming from a impoverished background some slack but not a formerly middle class person who lost their job? That makes no sense. When you look at the immediate circumstances, for most people, poor is poor and you don't have enough money to meet your basic needs. When you apply for food stamps or…

But how do you know people aren't living within their means? I fully agree that if you can't afford it, don't buy it. That's why I'm driving a Versa and living in the hood. But the OP knows nothing about the financial status of these folks, only that they try and get shit for free while rolling up in nice cars and…

They had savings. It was wiped out when her husband lost his job and they had to formula feed premature twins on formula that was $15 a can, going through a dozen or so of those a week.

So you have to meet some sort of dress code to be considered appropriately poor-looking? You shouldn't have pride in your appearance or maybe make yourself feel better by not looking like fucking slob? I hated that bullshit idea when I worked for DSS and I hate it now. I won't say I haven't judged some folks - if you…

"The real kind of poor?" Are you fucking kidding right now? Please tell me you are kidding.

Maybe it wasn't even her husband and it was her boss giving her ride? Maybe she was having an affair with a rich guy? Maybe the car was just well maintained older car they picked up for a song? So many possible explanations, and people love to jump to th ones that allow them to judge and condemn the most.

Wow aren't you judgey. How do you know that they didn't have an emergency bank account or whatever and they had to use that money to live off when things got tough and it never got better. You don't know the circumstances that lead them to poverty so stop making assumptions. Also just cause you make that much money…

The lady comes off just fine, from what she wrote. You, on the other hand, come off like an asshole.

That's what I'm screaming! These are things they earned and bought when they had the money. This is prob all they have tow ear, so they wear it.

...yes. The government built the roads and the bridges. Rich people didn't fucking build society, and at this point the vast majority of them aren't its vital organs, they're its tapeworms. I'm glad you realize that (no, you don't).

If y'all don't live in Texas, I don't want to hear jack shit about your governor. Our fucking governor has a bachelor's in ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. Think about that. My broke, ratchet ass has more education than the fucking governor! I don't even think he dropped out of law school or anything - he just flat out didn't…

Exactly. My husband (then boyfriend) was on unemployment for a few months, and it was really nice to have that money coming in during a difficult time. It wasn't a ton, but it was enough for us to buy food and pay a few bills. Since I was a grad student at the time, our only other option would have been for me to take…

I live in Florida, and I'd take Rick Scott over Scott Walker any day. Rick Scott is a criminal and a douche bag, but from everything I've read it looks like Scott Walker is actively trying to suck at his job.

This! I was on unemployment for a while, and I thought my super-conservative dad would call me a leech or something, and he was like, "it's about damn time our tax money has actually supported one of our kids." (granted, he forgets about things like the public schools I went to and roads and not being attacked by…

Ah, yes. Good old Governor Walker. I wish nothing but the very best for him... the best of subsidized housing and state insurance and food stamps. Someday, I hope he loses all his money and has to live under his own ridiculous laws. I hope his car breaks down and he can't afford to fix it. I hope he... ah, fuck it. I…

"Do you actually believe that everyone who is rich earned their wealth, or have you just been confused by an invisible system of networks, bridges, opportunity, hand-holding, inheritances, staggering debt, and even outright criminality in some cases behind it?"