I worked as a cashier at a fuel station for a couple years while attending college. You wouldn;t believe how many times I had to explain to people why I couldn't just dock their EBT card for cigs, booze and lotto. Fucking lazy ass people from the apartments a 1/2 block away would rather pay the high cost of everything in our store than walk another 2 blocks to the discount food store that sold things dirt cheap. I had a nice truck at the time and these same fucking people would spit on it, throw their garbage in it, all sorts of shit.
And if they were short any amount, didn't matter if it was 50 cents for their cigs, or if they were positive that 5 dollar fucking lotto ticket was the one, just that I had to spot them 5 bucks so they could get it. If you didn't fork it over, you were an asshole.
Granted, I realize that this only accounts for a tiny portion of the population, but I'll be damned if my story doesn't match up well with most others with similar dealings.
It's not being poor that makes them this way though. I think many of these people are the way they are because they don't have to scratch for any of it, it's just handed to them. Welfare is just too easy to obtain, I mean, I would feel worthless if I wasn't atleast shuffling paper work, or if I was able bodied maybe helping clean up a park somewhere, answering phones, etc, just something to make me feel a sense of worth so when that check came in the mail it would feel like a paycheck instead of a handout.
I mean, doens't having some value to the world, even if it's only one other person, still mean anything to anyone, or am I just really stoned right now?