>Reminds me of a friend who lives in southern California ( not by choice ) and works for the Border Patrol. Get this, as a federal employee making around $50,000 a year he qualified for food stamps because of the "poverty line". Pretty sad that government employees can't even make it. I can't see $11 and hour going far down there.
Does he have a very large family? Or some other odd circumstances? I ask because one of the very big issues here in New York is that many people are not considered to be in the food-stamp (and other benefit-) eligible pool because they are not below the *federal* poverty line -- even though, clearly, that line should be adjusted geographically. Your friend's story sounds at odds with the ongoing arguments here.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell