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In reply to the discussion: McDonald’s Advice To Underpaid Employees: Sell Your Christmas Presents For Cash [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)This is how it always is. That's what poverty MEANS. Every month, month after month, forever, you are in frantic game of whack a mole with the little bastards coming faster and faster. Next month is next month, you'll figure something out then or lose the game. And eventually you know you WILL lose, your luck will run out and it will be a catastrophe. The rubberless-tire on the car will finally blow, you fall down and shattered a tooth, your daughter breaks her glasses and now she's going to school with a giant crack across one lense and the rich kids who can afford luxuries like glasses are laughing at her, that check engine light that's been on for the last six months really did matter after all, your work just cut a few more hours...
ANYTHING is enough. There are tens of millions of us living just like this, right at the edge of oblivion. People for whom ten bucks can be the difference between eating and not.
And winter is coming.
Always there's the guilt, because always there's some motherfucker out there offering advice and questioning your choices. And you know, of course you know, that every choice isn't the best for long term prosperity. But you gave up on that idea long ago. You just want to make it through this week, and if that means walking to the store and buying a can of Colt, or smoking some shitty cigarettes, or posting online at a site like this one (where self-righteous pricks can drop backhanded bootstraps suggestions), what of it? For millions of us, that shitty cigarette is all we have.
That's what some of us have been TRYING to tell people about Obamacare. Poor people don't have any extra money. A subsidy doesn't mean shit when you're poor. Not when you're playing whack a hole at crackhead speed. But that's just one more thing, and clearly no one here cares about THAT. They're more concerned that McDonalds is offering holiday suggestions, or that Walmart has a donation bucket so some poor employees can help each other if they can. I say, that's more than many Foie Gras pinkie in the air liberals have done.
Anyway, hope this helps.
/rant