05-08-2015, 11:32 PM
Ocre- you speak the plain truth nobody wants to hear.
They all want to hear "The man should pay us $15 an hour to flip the burger and $30 an hour to do anything else." or worse yet "The rich should just GIVE the poor a bunch of money because they can afford it. Lets make laws to get this started!".
The poor are a bucket you can never fill. My family and I go to plays from hundreds of years ago and they talk about the exact same problems with the poor.
I went from upper middle class to poor to upper middle class again and as you say, it's all in working at getting ahead and trying things until you do. Most of the people I know who would be considered "well off" (and myself) sought out training, switched jobs, learned skills, and partnered with other survivors who did the same.
Your story is a bleak and stark reminder of the alternative. I'm going to make my teenage son read it tonight, it should be required reading for EVERY child.
Thank you for posting this. So sick of half the nation looking at successful people as a rainy day cookie jar they want to take off the refrigerator and plunder "for the good of the economy".
When I couldn't make ends meet on one job, I worked two. When I had no health insurance, I looked for jobs that did.
Worked my way through college twice and then learned a totally unrelated IT trade when that didn't work. No one owes me, or anyone, a free lunch.
They all want to hear "The man should pay us $15 an hour to flip the burger and $30 an hour to do anything else." or worse yet "The rich should just GIVE the poor a bunch of money because they can afford it. Lets make laws to get this started!".
The poor are a bucket you can never fill. My family and I go to plays from hundreds of years ago and they talk about the exact same problems with the poor.
I went from upper middle class to poor to upper middle class again and as you say, it's all in working at getting ahead and trying things until you do. Most of the people I know who would be considered "well off" (and myself) sought out training, switched jobs, learned skills, and partnered with other survivors who did the same.
Your story is a bleak and stark reminder of the alternative. I'm going to make my teenage son read it tonight, it should be required reading for EVERY child.
Thank you for posting this. So sick of half the nation looking at successful people as a rainy day cookie jar they want to take off the refrigerator and plunder "for the good of the economy".
When I couldn't make ends meet on one job, I worked two. When I had no health insurance, I looked for jobs that did.
Worked my way through college twice and then learned a totally unrelated IT trade when that didn't work. No one owes me, or anyone, a free lunch.