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To: epicure who wrote (111887)	5/25/2009 8:00:36 PM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

I worked for a year as a Social Case Worker for the L. A. Dept. of Social Services 40+ years ago in Watts. That's when Aid to Families With Dependent Children(AFDC) was in its heyday. I had 60 families, mostly African Americans, that I visited in their homes every quarter. There were some cheaters, but 90% of them struggled with trying to raise many children and with no men in sight--many of whom were in prison. Their lives were no picnic by any stretch of the imagination. I don't have any on the ground information as to what is going on now after the 'reform' of attempting to get people off of aid. However a housekeeper that I have had for over 30 years is struggling more now as fewer people, after the meltdown, can afford a once or twice a week housekeeper and we are having to give her occasional advances that she works off. Life is shit when you are at the bottom. It pains me to watch Chicano and African American men in the markets or 7/11's buying lots of lottery tickets with unrealistic dreams of escaping their fate, that even in America now seems fixed. The poor spend a greater proportion of their income on these loser tickets. It is a very unfair form of taxation of the lowest class who can ill afford it.