You are right, and I have extreme sympathy for the genuinely poor. But remember by the article, until recently they were middle class. They had a household in

You are right, and I have extreme sympathy for the genuinely poor. But remember by the article, until recently they were middle class. They had a household income of over 75K and they were not living in a major city so did not (likely) have extraordinary cost of living. I am not condemning them (but for the grace of God go I...), and I for one still sympathize, but I sympathized a lot less when I read about the name brand soda, Xbox, dirtbike, guns, beers,.. than I would have without them. Turning down the job didn't help. I do understand that in one sense it is rational since she would be making less take home, but it still didn't help.