Ria Warrick has read her friends’ online posts about Americans on food stamps. For instance:
Government irony: They say not to feed the bears at national parks because it makes them dependent.
Or:
Someday I hope to be able to afford a new iPhone ... like the girl in front of me with the food stamps.
Warrick’s friends don’t know they’re griping about her.
The 37-year-old married mom in Medford, Ore., has received food-stamp assistance of some sort for 18 years. “They were real paper stamps back then,” Warrick notes — and she says those comments hurt.
“These people — my friends — who post these have no idea we receive government help every month, and I've been too ashamed to tell them,” Warrick writes in a first-person account published on Yahoo News this week. “It makes me so angry they lump us all together. Yes, there are those taking advantage of benefits, but not everybody does. Some of us really do need the help until we get on our feet.” Keep reading
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