Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

Food stamps are an investment in our future.

My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless--a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

Life's irony;Some people use their credit cards to start an enterprise,while others use theirs to accumulate unyielding assets.

I wish the credit card terminal showed "Do you really need to buy this" before I entered my PIN number