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In reply to the discussion: The double-standard of making the poor prove they’re worthy of government benefits [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)for lobster, we should begrudge him his one-time lobster meal?
Poor people sometimes receive gifts too.
Should a poor person accept the gift and eat the lobster or give the food stamp card back to the government and spend the gift on what he would have bought with the food stamp card?
We aren't talking about large sums of money here. People who are poor and survive on food stamps and other government subsidies aren't taking in a lot of money from the government.
How cheap and greedy can we get???
Should we have poor people turn in the toenail clippings after they cut them so we can be sure they aren't wasting anything? How about dandruff? How about the money they make selling bottles and other recyclable items they find in other people's trash cans?
How cheap and greedy can we get?????
Let's make sure that no poor person ever has anything beyond the cheapest and least possible. Doesn't that make us feel really good. Making sure that the poor don't enjoy any little extra or pleasure that might cost us a few dollars?
I just don't understand the mentality of this kind of thinking. I hope I am not too sarcastic, but I have just had it with this sort of Scroogish mentality.