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People who are receiving government financial assistance should not be allowed to purchase certain products. CMV

As a recent high school graduate this is something that confused me through out my entire school career. There was the free and reduced lunch program at my school and at least half of my grade was on it. The only way for a person to get on that list was to be in a family that had a low income. However i noticed that almost all of the people on the list came in every week with a brand new phone and brand new shoes. And Im not talking about a trac phone, they would come in with brand new Iphones each week because they broke their old one at a party they had over the weekend. And on the day of the Samsung Galaxy release at least 15 people came in the next day with it only to break it and get another one a few days later. 

Same thing with shoes people would have a $300 pair of shoes each week and then wear them for 2 days never to wear them again, or if  they got dirty then they would throw them away. 

What i dont understand is how if you are living on a low income you can afford to buy such expensive items.

The same thing goes for adults. I was in the store one day and a woman who was in front of me was wearing about $800 worth of designer clothes, and about $2000 worth of jewelry. She then proceeded to pay for the food in her cart with food stamps.  

I believe that if you have to use food stamps and rely on welfare you shouldn't be allowed to buy certain items.
gpt
Well, first of all, as others have noted, your examples are absurdly unrealistic. You're describing kids that are getting $500-600 of stuff each week. Even if somehow that weren't a ridiculous exaggeration, that's obviously not coming from welfare.

Now, putting aside your claimed observations, you should consider the kinds of actual situations that can easily arise.

- If you see someone with designer clothes in the grocery store paying with food stamps, consider the possibility that they used to have a very good job. You shouldn't expect them to sell all of their stuff as soon as they go on unemployment.

- If a low income kid shows up at school with a fancy new gadget or a new pair of shoes, consider that he's only on the reduced lunch program because *his* parents poor. If he's got an uncle or grandparent that gave him something nice for his birthday, good for him.

- Finally, people can still save a little bit even if they're poor if there's a luxury item they want. A kid whose parents are on welfare might still get a $10 allowance for doing chores. If he saves up for a year, he should go ahead and buy something cool. On that note, especially in high school, a kid might have a part time job. This isn't going to pull his family out of poverty, but it gives him some cash to throw around.

tl;dr Your story doesn't sound like it matches reality at all, but in general, there are plenty of perfectly acceptable reasons why people on welfare can still have some nice things, and you shouldn't be so quick to judge if you don't have the full story.