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1. t1234s · 1790606891 · focus · HN ↗

   Having been a student in the mid-late 90s in US public school I can say I witnessed this often. Public schools are storage facilities for delinquent kids with useless parents. These people are a waste of tax money to try and educate. After a certain amount of incidents they should be removed from the public school system and left with the parents to deal with. Instead the public school is forced to try and deal with these delinquents. They take time and resources away from the smarter youth who are trying to do the best they can in the public school system.

   1. Invictus0 · 1790607368 · focus · HN ↗

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      1. edot · 1790607948 · focus · HN ↗

         Well, not exactly. Have you ever seen the quality of life of someone on substantial government assistance? It’s not a life I’d want. No one lives on food stamps and Medicaid because they enjoy it.

         1. zdragnar · 1790608947 · focus · HN ↗

            I've had two people try to sell me their food stamps while I was buying groceries, something along the lines of "let me buy your groceries with my food stamps and you can give me 80% in cash". I presume they were getting money from selling drugs and didn't need the food stamps, hence willing to sell them, but I didn't actually ask.

            My partner was also a single mother who utilized wic and food stamps and food pantries until she was able to work full time again.

            When the system works, it works well. When it gets abused, there's less for the people who need it.

            > No one lives on food stamps and Medicaid because they enjoy it.

            Unfortunately, this is also not true. My best friend's mother stayed on benefits because she didn't want to work, and moved out of state because her assistance ran out. She was nominally capable of working, though she also abused drugs and was more comfortable using and getting benefits than getting clean and a job.

            1. philjohn · 1790609285 · focus · HN ↗

               It's more likely they wanted to buy something that isn't able to be purchased with food stamps. Probably alcohol. Or smokes. Something to let them journey to oblivion and blot out their reality.

               1. zdragnar · 1790609647 · focus · HN ↗

                  Nah, I've seen people like that too, and that's not the guys I ran into. Were I to stereotype, they looked more like gangbangers than strung out druggies.

                  1. hunterpayne · 1790635337 · focus · HN ↗

                     They likely accepted the food stamps in exchange for...let's call it, recreational substances and this is how they turned it back into cash.

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