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[quote=Anonymous]I was trying to find an article I read a few years ago about how being poor costs more time, money and energy than anyone could imagine without going through it.  The writer followed around a homeless mother as she applied for benefits and what I remember most was how she had to wait until she had bus fare to get to the office, a ride that took at least a couple of hours with transfers and waiting time factored in, then waiting to get seen, then told she she had file more paperwork at a completely different location.  A location that she had neither the time nor the bus fare to reach.

There was a blog I used to read with real life stories about the maddening way poverty perpetuates itself, with every compromise or sacrifice made in the moment creating another costly problem.  There really is no way out without help, luck, rule breaking, charity, or all of the above.  I'm grateful I live in a country that at least does something to make sure people  don't starve, but ashamed that we do in fact let people starve all the damned time.  For all the morality that people attach to decisions people make that lead to poverty, we're remarkably lax about the corporate leeching that's basically created a caste system.  You're "free" to scratch and claw your way out of poverty (there's no bootstrap pulling) but profit making entities are way more free to rummage through your pockets and pull out everything they can while your hands and feet are busy with the climb.

But anyway, I found a whole site for the OP and other judgmental types to feed their righteous indignation about poor people "cashing in."  Happy hating, folks!  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/@working_poor/[/quote]

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