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In reply to the discussion: So I'm in line at the grocery store, and the lady in front of me used Food stamps and the guy in [View all]humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)Young man working for minimum wage, barely afford car insurance on his beater, shares apartment with 4 friends, works at Taco Bell, one day at the drive thru window a guy drives up in his nice newer model car orders a ton of food and pays for it using an EBT card, the same benefits that the working young man was turned down for because making minimum wage was too much money to qualify for assistance. Order gets messed up somehow and angry EBT using guy viciously lashes out at minimum wage Working man, who than also gets blasted by his shift manager, young man wants to quit job but doesn't.
I told my son to just let it roll off his shoulders because we will fight everyday to try and make the minimum wage a thing of the past replaced by a living wage that would make a person proud of working hard.