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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Anyway, I always suspect I'm the only person on DCUM who has this shameful family past and still tries hard to be a good liberal and donate, help others, and remain compassionate. It's just damned hard sometimes.[/quote]

Another one saying you are not the only one with shameful family secrets.  We are unquestionably 1%ers, and I make at least 60% of our HHI.  I scored a 36 - upper middle class with middle class parents.  I have a sister who has kids with multiple men and lives off of the child support for one kid, the SSI checks for another kid, grant money she has received to buy equipment for her kid with the disability (that she then spends on herself and never gets the equipment), and help from my parents, along with whatever other assistance (state medical, food stamps, etc.) she can get.  She never even finished college and also never could hold a job for more than a year as another PP referred to.  The odd thing is that she is the only one in my immediate family, or frankly even extended family, like that.  Not everyone in the extended family is as economically well off as my parents (solidly middle class and comfortable in retirement unless spending on my sister's kids causes them to run out of money, which they fear).  Yet none of them act like my sister.  I keep trying to think not everyone who needs assistance is like her, and I donate to all sorts of things.  But it does sometimes make me wonder how many else there are like her.  Her poverty is absolutely self-inflicted.  She had all the same opportunities I did, but blew them.

The fact that I got a 36 instead of something lower has nothing to do with my sister - it's a combination of having lived in small places, bought Budweiser at the beach and that emergency road stop at Outback.  I didn't work at a factory - I worked at fast food places, but that was while in school so that uniform didn't count, and I don't remember it causing anything to hurt.  I haven't had anything but a desk job since the summer after my junior year in college.  And I don't watch much TV (except for my maternity leave ventures into Dr, Phil, Oprah and Judge Judy) or see many movies.  I didn't know who Jimmie Johnson was, but I have bought Avon.

I know there are many different ways of living, and I like having lived in different places from urban to rural.  I do find it hard to know what to do, however, about people like my sister.  I don't see any fair way of being able to systematically figure out those who have self-inflicted poverty and those who don't, though, so if living in the bubble helps me think the number of self-inflicted people is small, I am glad for my bubble.[/quote]

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