[fzeroracer]

Sounds like you haven't had to deal with family members in abject poverty before?

My parents can't work, for example. They're both disabled and rely on food stamps plus medicare just to survive. This puts a rather large financial burden on me at times to say the least, because I would rather not see my parents starve to death.

If only we had a government that took better care of people in poverty. Imagine that.

[opo]

>...If only we had a government that took better care of people in poverty.

Have they tried getting SSDI? No one gets rich off of that, but it is one of the major government programs to help support those with disabilities.

[fzeroracer]

Unfortunately they've tried and were denied.

[rhexs]

How, exactly, are they going to starve to death on food stamps? Some sort of fancy medical diet Medicaid isn’t covering?

[fzeroracer]

Because food stamps gives them about 180 dollars a month to feed two people. That's hardly enough to survive a month, especially for two disabled people that also have trouble cooking for themselves.