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user-inactivated  ·  3794 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps - The Washington Post

I absolutely didn't. She was pointing out how difficult the system is to get into, which is a valid point to consider when people are panicking about their children's well-being.

At almost the exact time the market crashed, my family discovered that my father had embezzled about a hundred thousand dollars from his place of work to fuel his crack addiction. Guess how shell shocked we were when my family of four was very suddenly a family of three (divorce, I didn't get my dad into prison until a year or two later), gone from a two story bungalow on four acres of land with dogs, cats, and all manner of animals, to an ultra small apartment in a nearby town?

This stuff is traumatizing by itself, it doesn't need help. It certainly doesn't require the condescension that some people are giving it.