Originally Posted by Patty55

In my experience one of the biggest problems with all the programs is they are not reaching the deserving poor. We would get in elderly people, sometimes men on an extended strike and you could tell they were so humiliated just to be there. They didn't/wouldn't/couldn't lie, even if you told them the lie to say they'd say something like "That's not true."

The lifetime customers on the other hand, they knew the rules, they knew how to get what they wanted. The children getting their own grant was like a rite of passage. I think all the social programs have contributed to the breakdown of the family.

Maybe they can't buy beer with their foodstamps, but guess what they get with their WIC, baby formula that is being used to manufacture crack.

Now, my personal pet peeve-"Obama phones".