Has anything really changed?
When I was in high school, I worked as a delivery boy for a corner-store pharmacy- way before CVS/Rite Aid/Walmart (you get it). This was in a city with a population of today's Manchester, but higher population density.
The owner was a great guy- young and business minded.
We delivered to MANY welfare recipients (some addresses were on slummy streets, others were in actual ghettos). I can remember going to some of these places having back-yard beer parties/plenty of cigarette smoking/and other!
To be fair, some addresses were in different type neighborhoods and deliveries were to disabled people.
I remember hearing a conversation he (the owner) once had with another adult. The other asked him why he encouraged welfare.
His response: They pay full price, and they pay on time!
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