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Has anyone else noticed how many women who use food stamps also have their nails done & a cell phone hanging on their belt or in their purse? Excuse me, I thought one got food stamps because they were "poor" or broke.
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I've noticed the same thing.
Almost every study ever done of the poor showed that the difference between the "wealthy" and the "poor" (at least here in America) was not actual monetary wealth, it was how the wealth is spent. Poor people buy expensive things that have little real value, like cars and clothes, instead of saving the money, investing, or purchasing a house (which does have resale value, unlike cars and clothes). Studies have also found that poor people have significantly lower than average IQs. Basically poor people are poor because they make multiple stupid decisions, don't apply themselves in school, abuse drugs/alcohol, have children young, use money they do earn to buy pointless status symbols (like expensive clothes, cars, and jewelry) that have little or no value, etc.