Reply #65: lol. you're johnny on the spot on threads about welfare moms buying steak with food stamps though. [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

important stuff, there.

interesting to me the sympathetic tenor of this article v. the hectoring tone adopted in the ubiquitous stories about the financially-strapped cubicle rat who doesn't brown-bag it, the black couple who bought "too much house" & got foreclosed on, low-income people who buy cigarettes or lottery tickets, the food stamp recipient who dares to buy some luxury item "above her station," etc.

interesting to me also that despite trying their best to illustrate the straightened finances of the bottom of the top 3%, a budget that allots $40,000 to various kinds of savings & $600 a month to "gifts & entertainment" (& adds even more for cable tv & internet on top of that) is the best they can do.