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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 51941" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p>Ours always has money for cigarettes, lottery scratch-off cards (don't get me started...), top-of-the-line cosmetics, shoes and more shoes, clothes and more clothes. It is still an issue (she is back at home, living by the rules, trying very hard to get a job and group home arrangement, but...). She gets benefits from the state and has this mentality that "my (cash) money is for me" and that she is simply entitled to receive food stamps and Medicaid because she needs the cash money to go for the other stuff. In other words she just doesn't get (or doesn't care) that the state aid is real money that someone (like me) had to work for so the state could take it and give it to her... Case in point: once, a while back, I took her to the grocery store -- she picks up two 2 1/2 pound packages of frozen cocktail shrimp, $38 -- I said something about how expensive it was and her reply is "Oh, it's OK, that goes on the LINK card" (foodstamps). She couldn't understand why I was irritated -- to her, it was like so what, it's not real money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 51941, member: 3485"] Ours always has money for cigarettes, lottery scratch-off cards (don't get me started...), top-of-the-line cosmetics, shoes and more shoes, clothes and more clothes. It is still an issue (she is back at home, living by the rules, trying very hard to get a job and group home arrangement, but...). She gets benefits from the state and has this mentality that "my (cash) money is for me" and that she is simply entitled to receive food stamps and Medicaid because she needs the cash money to go for the other stuff. In other words she just doesn't get (or doesn't care) that the state aid is real money that someone (like me) had to work for so the state could take it and give it to her... Case in point: once, a while back, I took her to the grocery store -- she picks up two 2 1/2 pound packages of frozen cocktail shrimp, $38 -- I said something about how expensive it was and her reply is "Oh, it's OK, that goes on the LINK card" (foodstamps). She couldn't understand why I was irritated -- to her, it was like so what, it's not real money. [/QUOTE]
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