"How soon we forget" whoever may have helped lift us from poverty or shown us a way to better ourselves.
At least the damn cheese was there at the end of the queue Boebert claims she was waiting on.
Guess she didn't live someplace like NYC when Giuliani was mayor with his get-off-the-dole gimmicks like scheduling benefits recipients for simultaneous required meetings in two different boroughs, one for drug-testing and one for "a benefits review".
No cheese at the end of lines from which those folks might otherwise have scored enough stuff off to grow up and be able finally to look down their noses at what had kept them from starvation, eh?
Right. Bootstrapping time, folks! Oh well. Maybe a bunch of them just started selling crack cocaine to get by. But hey, Rudy was ready to back up the cops and fill the prisons with whoever went down the crack-vending path to get food on the table.
Meanwhile if your preferred variety of cocaine was the powdery kind favored by certain investment bankers, celebrity entertainers, etc., somehow all those lines in the criminal code about that level of scheduled drugs often enough got misplaced. It took decades for Congress even to begin to address that disparity in our justice system, and even so the ensuing adjustments still essentially overlook how children can get driven to the illicit drugs trade in the first place: simple hunger as a result of rules meant to keep people off "the dole". The same rules often result in evictions from public housing that private landlords can learn of and so can mean semi-permanent homelessness. And if you're homeless, staying in school to graduation becomes a monumental challenge.
So Ms. Boebert is far luckier than she seems to recall, cheese or no cheese handouts along the way, which of course might be down to her inability to recall circumstances that were possibly other than she claims to remember.