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In reply to the discussion: FOOD. That's the one word I just can't get past. FOOD. [View all]Patiod
(11,816 posts)Her father was a drunk, and in jail at one point, and wouldn't allow her mom to work. She said that school breakfast and lunch were the only meals she and her 5 brothers got all week.
Thanks to public schools, public colleges and these lunch programs, she and her brothers are now solid, tax-paying citizens.
And of course she's a Republican. She was a hard-working person who "pulled herself out of poverty" and "scrimped and saved" to get where she is, but unlike her, other people are just spendthrifts who don't deserve any help (and neither do their kids). I have never had the guts to say "a lot of people probably thought that about your family because your dad brought all that trouble on himself with his own bad decisions, so they probably thought your family probably didn't "deserve" help either".