I have mixed feelings too; She clearly had some significant misfortune with the housing bubble, and the US' incentives for people to buy homes is partly responsible, but financially she received a 20k windfall, gets social security, earns enough to not get food stamps, buys organic because she has some beliefs about non-organic food and the reason she is 50k in the hole is because she decided to buy a motor home.

So it sounds like she would be fine if she decided to spend her life/money differently, but she's set on spending money on things she can't really afford, so we get this article...

I'm all for basic income, redistribution of wealth, etc, but I don't think we have enough resources to finance everyone's aspirations via taxation.