"I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"

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119. my 5 cats and that is a lot for me, but they give me great joy

If this is what gives you great joy in your life, I say keep all of them because life is too damn short to do without things that do give you great joy in life.

Many people don't know what joy is or means, no matter how much $$$ they have.

Needless to say, I agree w/you 100% and as for the person being discussed, little can be done for a person trying to live on so little except suggesting the same old same old.

* Check for low income power assistance (there are plans that can help some)
* Check for a low income telephone line (I have one -- allows 60 calls a month and that is it and the cost is about $4.00 a month and NO I don't have a long distance plan so I do not make not distance phone calls and NO I do not have a "cell phone" or an "iPhone" NOPE.)
* Internet, minimal service for $29.00 a month and yes, it pays for itself with money I manage to save using it ironically.
* Cat(s) -- only one left now the other two died last year and I'd give anything to have them back!!!!
* Food -- well ye old food bank ... at times no doubt
* Food stamps (IF you qualify that is ... I did not!)

Let's face it there is not much help out there for people in this boat which I know too well myself having had to live on $500.00 a month for a long time which then dropped to zero dollars per month for another year. I almost cracked up but at least I still had my cats to keep me from committing suicide.

It sucks like hell being in a boat like this and a few bucks here, a few bucks there cuts won't make much of a difference when the income is so damn low that it is below poverty level.

SHAME ON YOU BARACK OBAMA AND SHAME ON YOU AMERICA FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO CARE FOR YOUR OWN CITIZENS!!!!

NO American should have to make such decisions such as "dumping" their cat/dog, a crummy internet connection to have contact w/the real world. No one should have to live like a nothing because everyone is equal IMO and everyone deserves to live a decent life.