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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][img][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what 21.38/23.34's problem is, besides being a troll.  Poor people don't live in luxury off their food stamp benefits.  They live.  Period.

If you really want to see what a snippet of what its like to be poor in America, you can check out the episode of 30 Days where Morgan Spurlock and his gf lived for 30 days on minimum wage.  The rules for the *experiment* they were only allowed to start with one weeks worth of pay at minimum wage each, no credit cards, no health insurance, and no back up savings.  Here's part 1.  The rest you can find linked after the end of the video.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yloNmBTKNIE[/youtube]

If you're having a hard time making ends meet, then you need to cut back.  End of story.  We're lucky in that we own our home and 2 cars out right:  [b]We inherited our house [/b]and our cars are 5 and 12 years old.  One's a compact for me and the kids, the truck my husband needs for his job.  Times were hard this year for us because there wasn't alot of work for DH and I had to stop working a few years ago when we realized our sn son would need full time care (that we couldn't afford).  We cut coupons, buy everything on sale/used (for the kids, I can't remember the last time I bought new clothes for myself), freecycle, and we've been renting out rooms in our basement.

I'd love to take vacations, upgrade to a bigger car so that I can take the kids around on play dates (my car only fits 2 car seats so if I host it's our house or nothing), start a college fund for the kids or even go back to school.  But we can't afford that right now.  [/quote]

Also note that they didn't try fairfax county welfare. [b]I have no sympathy for you if you own your own home, If I were a janitor and had no housing costs I would be ballin' [/b]like [img]http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1342478757527&id=16a28b9b7474e3d1142580a0d295b246&url=http%3a%2f%2fi161.photobucket.com%2falbums%2ft230%2fantico_bucket%2fballin.jpg[/img][/quote]

No of course they didn't try fairfax co welfare.  They were in Ohio, and the rules were living on minimum wage with no assistance.  If you watch the video, they end up majorly in the hole.  They both get sick, little things like common colds, and iirc a workplace injury.  Not having health insurance, they have to take off work and go to the ER, and it puts them more and more behind the 8 ball.

And I'm not asking for your sympathy, I was just trying to illustrate that the grass aint always greener.  Where we live property taxes are no joke; it's what pushed us to fixing up the basement and renting the rooms out.  Then of course you have the upkeep on a 50 year old home.  Again we're fortunate in that my husband is handy and can handle most of the things that go wrong.  But someday, we're going to have to replace our crumbling plumbing system.  My husband gets full coverage insurance for his job, but only for himself.  If we put the kids and myself on his plan, we'd pay $500 a month, which we can't afford.  We qualify for Medicaid for the kids, but if I get sick, we're fucked.  Our son is a state sn preschool; it's clear that he could benefit from private therapy, but we can't afford anything else.

Still, I know things could be, much worse.  We have a nice house, DH has a job, my kids are healthy and happy.  I'm grateful for all of that and don't worry too much about the rest.

That doesn't mean we are out there ballin' and makin' it rain.  Even if we were, it'd be like, scattered showers of ones with a few quarters thrown in.[/quote]

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