Few working at Staples make a living wage.

[Honeycombe8]

148. I am neither cold nor insensitive. I have been homeless myself...

on my own at 17, right outta high school. Working min. wage jobs. I've been there, done that, as they say.

I know what I'm talking about. And I AM liberal.

I believe in Obamacare, esp to help the working poor (like those working min wage). I wish we had single payer (but we don't).

But I believe in a person proactively doing something to learn a skill or something for a living, instead of waiting for a savior. As I learned the hard way, if you don't have a skill or vocation or profession, it will always be a tough row to hoe.

Soooo...it's great to sympathize and empathize...but for someone's situation to get better, he/she really has to DO something about it. And that something may be very hard to do.

All the way from crying in hte parking lot of KMart because I didn't have $5 to pay for anything for Christmas, to being in my 50's, debt free, with my own home and car....it's taken years. But I wouldn't have gotten past the min. wage jobs and bettered my situation if I had stayed there and waited for a knight on a white horse. There is no knight in shining armor. YOU have to do it. It may be hard, probably will be.

For anyone reading, who reads the "No, we can't" responses to any and all suggestions to improve a person's situation, remember that you CAN. It starts with a plan, a first step. One day at a time.