Clerk loses job for refusing to let customer use welfare money to pay for cigarettes

[proud2BlibKansan]

104. You may have a point there

I grew up in a large Catholic family in the 1960s when the Catholics were largely Democrats and more concerned about feeding the poor than stopping abortion. Bobby Kennedy was speaking out against poverty when I was a teenager. I was 14 or 15 when he was killed. I remember long conversations at the dinner table about how best to help the poor, how wonderful Medicare and Head Start were and the shame of the growing poverty in the US. Never once did I get the impression that poor people were to be ridiculed or treated badly just because they were poor. I was an adult in my 30s before I ever heard any of this crap from the right wing about poor people not deserving to be helped. It sounded disgusting them and it still sounds disgusting today.