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Oct. 16th, 2011 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7So this K Stories tag… I love his stories, and I’m damn fond of the man himself, but some of the things he tells me, I can’t repeat. And some of the other things he tells me, I just can’t make into a cutesy clever thing with a punchline. Like how his wife lost her job two months after they bought a house five years ago, and even though he works all the overtime he can get, they’re barely scraping by, and yesterday, he didn’t eat, because there wasn’t money to buy food. Why is life so goddamn hard. I wished I could have sent him half my dinner through the phone. I had extra. Instead, today I bought breakfast for a teammate who’s in the same position; her husband finally started his new job today, but it’ll be a while until she can afford things like a plate of eggs at the diner. I told her it was a mini-fundraiser just for her. (Her breakfast cost $5.04. Which she didn’t have. I did. I’m lucky.)
Life is hard. I’m not being political or nothing, I just really sympathize with all the protestors down on Wall Street. I don’t want a handout; none of my friends do. But a combat veteran in his forties, college-educated, working full-time can’t eat? A woman who has worked hard her entire life can be laid off at the drop of a hat, and a pre-existing medical condition that costs her over a quarter of her income every month to treat keeps her poor.
That shit is fucked up, people. I don’t have any answers. But I know that most poor people don’t “deserve” to be poor, and just working hard isn’t enough anymore.
Life is hard. I’m not being political or nothing, I just really sympathize with all the protestors down on Wall Street. I don’t want a handout; none of my friends do. But a combat veteran in his forties, college-educated, working full-time can’t eat? A woman who has worked hard her entire life can be laid off at the drop of a hat, and a pre-existing medical condition that costs her over a quarter of her income every month to treat keeps her poor.
That shit is fucked up, people. I don’t have any answers. But I know that most poor people don’t “deserve” to be poor, and just working hard isn’t enough anymore.
