Reply #6: The nightmare of transportation

[kickysnana]

EBT cards are not accepted at Metro Transit (at least they were not). The poor do not get free bus passes unless it is for medical care or to look for a job.

Stores post no backpacks allowed. Metromobility has a limit on the number of packages you can take (doctors order only $5 round trip no EBT) and busses also limit the number of packages a person can bring on. A lot of people share rides to the grocery store/drug store and hand the driver $1-2 depending on the distance no EBT, assistance and time involved. Family members help the elderly at their convenience and a lot of elderly go to the store when they are physically able and that does not always mesh. Sending someone with a list is problematic for anyone. (Sorry Dad you did your best but prune danish and prunes are two different things.) Most people shop sales with coupons to make ends meet and before 2008 young people thought coupons were silly and harassed the elder person for wanting to use them. The taxis you see are not the very poor more likely the working poor who do not have a car.

Poor people do not explain their daily lives but the GOP sure lies about it.