I have lived on a food stamp budget when my husband was in college. However we had NO food stamp programs then. It was our money that we scraped up for food. We didn't have a telephone, cable TV, cell phone, computer and often walked because we didn't have gas money for our one car. We lived in a two room house which was NOT government subsidized. Oh, and there were NO student loans or Pell grants then. We didn't download to our iPod, go to movies or much of anything else. Did we think someone was supposed to provide these things for us? NO! Did we work hard and become successful? YES!
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