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Originally Posted by perrjojo
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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Good for you! We did pretty much the same when I was in college and when I was teaching and coaching we actually qualified for (but did not use) reduced lunches for our kids. I know a lady who my wife and I have helped from time to time, who is on food stamps. She has MS which requires expensive treatments on a regular basis, she tries to work, but because of her condition often misses and thus has been fired. Her husband works hard but makes little more than minimum wage and they are raising his three kids from a previous marriage. Her daughter, who we gave a laptop computer, was last year valedictorian at the local high school and is currently working and making all As at a community college where she is on scholarship. Another typical welfare family I guess.