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 Welfare mom may be forced to drink 12-ounce cans of beer, smoke smaller joints. Times are always hard for Gwenda Mowry, a mother of six or eight, who lives in Tyrone. Now, she said times are even harder. Mowry said that the inability for welfare funds to keep up with the rapid inflation in drugs and alcohol has left her desperate and her family in danger. "I guess these guys in Harrisburger and Washington think that meth grows on trees, it don't," she said. "It grows in an abandoned garage that my cousin Larry found. It ain't cheap is my point." Mowry said her drug and alcohol budget is slowly creeping into her food budget.
"I find myself saying, do I pay for the bag of Doritos for my children, or do I buy a six pack." Mowry said. "Like that is even a choice. Reporter man, can you snag me a brew in the fridge?" Mowry is a third-generation welfare recipient. "My mama and her mama all were raised with the belief that if you wanted something bad enough, you can achieve it through other people's hard work," she said. "Now that is a cherished opinion in this here government-subsidized home." Mowry said that this belief will be spread to her "childrens," or her "little monthly paychecks," as she sometimes calls them. "Oh my childrens. My childrens," Mowry said as she snapped the tab of a 16-ounce Budweiser. "Now, who gonna buy me some cigarettes?"
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