You're not cynical enough. Plenty of food stamp recipients sell their food allowances for cash, presumably to buy other things they value more.
We do not know the why, all we know is her kids were hungry. If you had no money, would you steal to feed your kids?
I have known some who sell their food stamps and it wasn’t to buy other things they valued more. Some sold them so they could buy toilet paper, soap and laundry detergent. Some of you certainly are cynical. Is it right? No, but, if they have limited cash - some people will sell them. And, I’m sure some sold them for drugs, booze, etc. as well.
I tried to get food stamps after surviving Hurricane Katrina. They laughed me out of the building.
Plenty of food stamp recipients sell their food allowances for cash, presumably to buy other things they value more....including bombs, as in the Ferguson case recently.
They have to get money somewhere to buy the “lucies” since the government has taxed them so high most can only afford one fag at a time. “Fag” is what blacks called cigarettes back in the sixties.