Trump admin backs off idea to force SNAP users to reapply

[EuterpeThelo]

8. Oh yes...

so many people think it's just a rubber stamp! I'm sorry you had to deal with that humiliation, but at least it put a sock in your MIL's mouth.

I recall the intake worker asking what my plans were, and I replied that our local community college had a paralegal program I intended to pursue. She scoffed, "so you expect the state to take care of you while you do that?" After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I replied, "I'm sorry, maybe I'll take up smoking crack and burglarizing people's homes instead! I am probably the first person you asked that question today that came in here with a comprehensive plan already in place. By the way, I've been paying taxes in this county since I was fifteen so, yeah, I expect the system to work as it was designed to now."

And yeah, the "assets" that could be considered "wealth" were ABSURD. One of my workers once told me that my vinyl record collection, which I had been amassing since I was twelve years old, meant I owned too much property and I'd have to start selling it off or risk losing my benefits. So, yeah, how dare you have ANY source of joy or nostalgia in your life, even stuff collected from the $1 bin at Goodwill or handed down from your parents (like the Beatles album that was on the turntable the day I was brought home from the hospital because I was named after one of their songs)!