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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
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.
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I hope that they are a typical welfare family but many are not. I have a niece who won't take a promotion because she will lose food stamps. She and her husband go to college, have 3 children. They lived in subsidized housing, get grants for school, receive food stamps and pay no income tax. They do however get back 12,000 dollars per year in earned income credit. They have been doing this for 9 years now. They have 2 cars, 3 TVs, cable TV, iPhones, and the children have all of the computer game players. Last year they used the money they got back from IRS to take a cruise.
How do we sort out these people? I don't know but it is becoming a larger problem each year.