QUOTE(NUKE @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 11:37 PM)
Yeah, that money is MEANT to help the kids but it usually gets spent on booze, smokes, drugs, and lottery tickets.
I often hear cries from the left about how "pointless" and "unjust" the war on drugs is but I think the real crime is this so called "war on poverty". While well intentioned, all it has done is create a cycle of dependency among those it was intended to help, and has wasted more than a trillion dollars in the process.
Nuke: It usually gets spend on kids and families getting by. Because there is abuse in the system, it does not mean that money is "usually" being spent on booze, smokes, drugs and lottery tickets.