Reply #130: When other people pay, they get the say-so on how their $ is spent. [View All]

[Honeycombe8]

The foster parents can always spend their own $$ on whatever they want...including new clothes.

Providing a safety net for the poor does NOT mean giving them $$$ to spend however they choose. When you ask someone else for $$$, they get to ask questions and dictate how it's spent. If you don't want to do that, don't take their $$$$. That's how it works.

If my relative asks me for $$$, and I give it....I will definitely ask questions or make it my business to find out how they've been spending their money, and I will dictate what the $ I give the relative will be spent for.

It's a shame it had to be put into the law. It should've been spent that way all along by the foster parents (except for underwear and maybe shoes). If I were poor (and I have been), buying used is a good way to go (although half price off sales at WalMart work, too...but there was no WalMart when I was young....I usu. hit garage sales, or I just didn't buy anything at all.)