Dear LFTP: the $8 spaghetti sauce in the grocery line

• Should I feel guilty for not covering the stranger's grocery bill when I could barely afford my own?

Boova (speaker-2, who reads the letter on-air) reads a Dear LFTP letter: at a grocery store, a young woman with an $8 jar of spaghetti sauce used the last of her food-stamp card, came up short, and everyone — the woman, the cashier, the bagger — stared at the writer to cover the difference, though the writer's only income was $150 in food assistance. The hosts land that the writer was not obligated; that luxury purchases on a tight budget are on the buyer; and that helping is good but not boundless — the Bush Light rule: cover it once, maybe twice, but by the fourth week you are enabling, not helping, and shielding people from the earthly consequences of mismanaging money.