SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) - A 20-year-old college student from Maine says she has developed a following and gotten at least five marriage proposals after writing a column about her experiences with welfare recipients as a Wal-Mart cashier.
Christine Rousselle attends Providence College in Rhode Island. She wrote about her experiences working as a teenager at a Wal-Mart store in the Maine town of Scarborough in a column Tuesday on the website The College Conservative.
In it, she describes watching customers abuse food stamps and other subsidies to buy toys, lobsters, jewelry and other items. Readers have left more than 2,000 comments and shared it thousands of times on Facebook.
Rousselle told the Bangor Daily News (
http://bit.ly/vqDBud) that her former Wal-Mart co-workers largely have applauded her for pointing out what has frustrated them for years.