I could not take the pontifications of this Ivy-educated gang; they were talking about the limits on what food stamps cover and don’t, and I could just tell none of them knew one person who had ever needed food stamps. I raised my hand (something I think only I did when I wanted to talk) and told them what it was like to see people humiliated in line trying to buy generic cereal, canned soup, milk. To watch them realize what they couldn’t get. To watch them realize how ridiculous it was that sports drinks were covered but something like Sunny Delight—which is actually much cheaper than orange
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