Baltimore Mayor Allegedly Bought Game Systems With Gift Cards Meant for Needy

I think giving 2 times the cash equivalent would suffice as a replacement for the cards.  What the hell needy person needs to be wasting time with electronics when they need to find a JOB to not be needy anymore in the first place.  If anything I almost have to support these actions because they were Best Buy gift cards for the needy. 

Yes, they could be used for the kids, but with our luck, the people will just turn around and try to sue the game industry for creating an 'addictive' game that is rated M for a child that is 8 years old.  All in all, I can not totally smash her for her acts because of the fact there isn't much that needy could buy with them anyways that would help their situation, especially that cash couldn't do anyways.  Who the hell is giving out Best Buy gift cards to begin with?  These people need outfits, food, and the ability to pay bills, not electronics.  They can get a damn job, and quit being needy to get those types of things.

Being in a family that would have qualified as needy at one point in time, and never collected on it, this just goes beyond logic to me to rationalize the need of electronic store gift cards.  That is like buying a homeless African child a copy of GTA.  How is the child going to play it without 1 electricity, 2 a game console, and 3 a TV.  Granted, it would be useful for the people to have a TV, but there are some at Goodwill stacked up that work, even though most of them would need the converter box.  Still, not an absolute need, and I would still say raw cash, clothing, and help with bills to help encourage to get a job to be more important.  (I kind of rationalize it like, why are people in prison playing video games?  They are in jail, and it should be a punishment.  Would you send your child to his room in trouble and still let him keep his game console in there?  We need to discourage illegal acts, and stuff like that just encourages homeless people to do illegal stuff just to have a home and food.)

On topic though again, if she didn't put at least the equal amount of cash in there, then that is 100% wrong, but if she donated money to replace it so that it could be more helpful to the needy, then I have to encourage it.  Still, the theft is wrong, but it could work out.  Even if she bought those for the needy, TVs with an antenna to get the news would be more helpful than game consoles. (And having someone who is soon to be part of the family living off of the government right now that has a $40,000 2009 car, and everything paid for her, and the family wants her to go away other than the person marrying her, that its a mutual feeling in the family against people who live off of the government when it isn't needed, and those who are need to be honestly looking for a job...  Also had a co-worker at one point in time that worked for as long as she had to to get herself fired to get unemployment, and played that game for 30+ years...  sickens me...  perfectly capable people just refusing to work...)

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