Just because someone is on foodstamps doesnt mean they werent rich once upon a time. It could be the lady with the 1.5 carat diamond ring got it a long time ago when she had lots of money, (or it could have been an engagement ring) and now for some reason they are out of money either due job loss, or big business loss.
Let me tell you, I just moved from Florida to Queens thinking that I and my husband would have jobs right when we got here, but unfortunately those job opportunities fell through. So now we both have no income so we got onto foodstamps to help us buy food. However, we still have 2 laptops not because we are cheating the government in order to get foodstamps, but because we bought the laptops when we had money. Im sure due to the economy there are many people out there who were once rich, but lost a lot of their money. That doesnt mean that they had to get rid of all their fancy things that they bought when they were rich.