(from 21 June 2006)

The other day some women at work were talking about how much they disapproved of the foodstamp program and the people on it. They complained about their tax dollars and people who don't speak English, etc, and I just listened.

I wondered how people who worked for so little money could be so insensitive towards people who have even less.

To qualify for foodstamps in Wisconsin, I believe you can't own your own home, have to be low income, and your car can only be worth however much. Your life has to suck, basically.

These women were making the case that the people who recieve foodstamps are lazy, undeserving heathens, mostly minorities.

Bitches. They better hope they never find out what it's like to be on foodstamps.

[and isn't it nice to know you live in a country that's got your back when things don't go as planned?]